Dress Up Takes a Turn
Dress-Up Takes A Turn Most children growing up play fantasy games and games that trigger the imagination. One game that is widely popular is playing dress-up. I remember playing dress-up with my younger brother when we were little kids. We would play together for hours and would dress-up in old Halloween costumes. My brother, Chris, being four years younger than me would put on my Halloween costumes and at his age would not think anything was wrong. That gets into the questions of who is allowed to play dress up and what clothes can you wear? Are boys allowed to play dress up just as girls are and if so can they wear girls clothing? This becomes the question of how far is too far? I found two pictures; one of a little boy in a princess dress playing dress up and then the next picture of one female and four males who are dressed in provocative women’s clothes. If I were to choose which pictures to publish I would choose to publish neither of the pictures. At first I found the second picture more disturbing but then looking into it more I thought the first picture of the little boy with the text “future embarrassment guaranteed” to be mean and unnecessary for the boy. I feel as if it is already embarrassing this boy at a young age. I would also not publish the second picture in the newspaper because I do not think that cross-dressing males is what people want to see in their newspaper. It would offend me to see it in the newspaper because I think cross-dressing is morally wrong and does not need to be displayed to the public eye. The first image shows a little boy smiling who is wearing a pink princess dress and is also holding an Elmo doll down in front of him. The boy’s mother made this layout and was the one who added the text “Future embarrassment guaranteed,” next to the little boy. He is positioned slightly off centered to the right. The boy is the only object in the image with the words on the left side of the layout. When I looked at this photo