Every parent needs to spend some time shopping for their children’s clothes. However, there is a big difference between parents who are shopping for boys’ clothes versus clothes for little girls. In a now-viral TikTok video, one mom expressed her outrage at how Target and other retailers are forcing little girls to wear sexually suggestive clothes despite being just toddlers and babies.
“If anyone’s wondering why girls have body image issues, these are my daughter’s shorts,” she said in the viral TikTok video. In the clip, mom showed how the shorts for sale for girls were far shorter in length than the shorts for sale for boys. Although the children wear 2T sizes, the girls’ shorts are so much shorter than their male counterparts, which is simply not fair at all.
Girls’ clothing is so much more revealing than boys that the mom showed how girls’ shorts size 3T were about as long as boys’ shorts for a 9-month-old infant. Why would clothes for someone nearly three times the boy’s age be the same size? It simply does not make sense why retailers like Target and Walmart are sexualizing girls at such a young age.
Most TikTok users shared comments about how strange it is that retailers are selling girls’ clothes that reveal so much of their youthful bodies.
“Don’t even get me started!” one person stated. “They try to sexualize our girls. That’s why I buy my girl boy shorts.”
“I stopped buying the shorts/pants from the girls’ section,” another mom said. “The clothes are skin tight and super short.”
However, some TikTok users were skeptical. They suggested that the baby clothes leave room for a diaper while clothes for the toddler do not. However, this is simply not the case because many children wear diapers until they are three years old or even older, depending on when a parent has time to potty train the little one. In addition, the skeptics suggested that mom needs to compare clothes from the same brand in order to make an adequate comparison.
“Nah. It’s the brand, and the fact baby’s clothes account for diapers,” someone wrote.
However, most people appreciate that this mom was exposing the sexist practice of retailers creating clothing for little girls that are shorter and tighter than what is available for boys the same age.
“I love and appreciate what you are doing!” a daycare worker wrote. “It feels like all people care about are the excuses for issues with kids’ clothing.”
“Def experienced this buying a superhero shirt for my daughter,” another person wrote. “The boy sizes were very different than the girl shirt sizes.”
“I don’t even have kids. But this is so interesting,” someone wrote.
Do you think retailers need to update their clothing for girls? Or do you think it is appropriate for Target to sell sexist clothing for girls as young as two years old?