The other is to make the girl look grown-up and attractive. From the @Usborne book 'Growing up for Boys': Girls have breasts for two reasons - feeding babies and looking grown-up and attractive. pic.twitter.com/r1I34eLlvKBooks for girls, about girls: the publishers trying to balance the bookshelves Read more“This just seemed awful and completely unjustifiable,” Ragnoonanan told the Guardian. But Nicholls said that describing the “other” purpose of breasts – “to make the girl look grown-up and attractive” – was “extremely problematic”, because it “reinforces the sexualisation of breasts which makes girls and women self-conscious”. “The language used, bearing in mind this is a book ‘for boys’, strongly suggests that girls’ breasts exist for boys, for their admiration, for their gaze,” she said.

Source: The Guardian August 29, 2017 15:00 UTC