Young People Are Dressing In Ways Their Parents Vaguely Disapprove of, and the WSJ is ON THE CASE!
Old media, new media, whatever — nothing moves ad space like the curiously creepy blend of titillation and censure that is the “why are our daughters such skanks?” essay. The Wall Street Journal has the latest example of the genre, Jennifer Moses’ straightforwardly-named “Why Do We Let Them Dress Like That?”
Never mind that teen sex is actually down these days. Never mind that Moses offers no evidence to support any of her tangled theses. She’s got a lede that salivates over twelve-year-olds in minidresses and a dozen paragraphs of hand-wringing to follow it with, and that’s all she needs. It’s time to sell some wine! (And, since