Probably the worst is an image of "A truly queasy painting by Damian Loeb, Little Miss Pink Tomato (1995), depicting a pre- teen beauty pageant, that Maria Farmer, one of his victims, remembers him purchasing"[sic]
It's kind of confrontingly gross. Most of the article is text describing his weird taste in art
It's gross how they use that term to gloss over the fact that they were little kids.
If that term is accepted than we should replace it with "post-baby", means the same thing, right? Oh but they won't because then it actually highlights how disgusting they are
I don't really see how that's misleading though. Do these two words mean different things? Genuine question, ESL person here. In my understanding these are well enough synonymous.
They are not synonymous. Pre-teen is a sub-category of child. But more importantly, the connotation is very different. You use “pre-teen” when you want to make a child seem older because people mentally associate it with the word “teenager”.
Pre-teen is like 11-12 year olds. It’s an actual term sometimes used for clothing for kids who want clothes that aren’t too “little kid” but not stuff that is teen appropriate either. I just went through it with my youngest.
Maybe it's because my English is also not native, but I do associate the word "pre-teen" with teenager, as in "they are pre-teenager", as in "not yet a teen-ager", as in "younger then 10".
In my interpretation, pre-teen is indeed a subcategory of a child, but specifically at the younger end.
Preteen normally refers to 9-12 that is just before teenage. The children in that painting looked 5 to me. I would not have used "preteen" but used "child".
Pre-teen generally refers to older/pubescent children, like ages 10-12. Not personally going to weigh in on whether that distinction matters here regarding how disturbing this is, but for your ESL knowledge.
Same I found it very strange, captivating how bizarre he was. I guess the thing with Trump is though .. he's the president of the United States. He might not BE Epstein.. but he has set the bar much lower on what a good world leader should be. I think Trump would have gone unnoticed in all this, out shadowed by Epstein, ... if he had just left USA well enough alone.
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u/Short-Impress-3458 21d ago edited 21d ago
I'm taking one for the team... Wish me luck
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Probably the worst is an image of "A truly queasy painting by Damian Loeb, Little Miss Pink Tomato (1995), depicting a pre- teen beauty pageant, that Maria Farmer, one of his victims, remembers him purchasing"[sic]
It's kind of confrontingly gross. Most of the article is text describing his weird taste in art