Olivia Rodrigo criticized online backlash over her babydoll-style dresses, saying the reaction reflects harmful attitudes toward how young women and girls are viewed and sexualized. She said she felt upset because outfits she considered more revealing in the past were treated as acceptable, while a fully covered dress was labeled inappropriate. She argued the pattern shows how pedophilia is normalized in culture. Rodrigo also described the appearance-related rhetoric girls receive from a young age, including the idea that they must prevent men from sexualizing them and that it is their fault. She said she chose the dresses because they felt cool and comfortable, and she worries younger girls may internalize that responsibility.
""That's been making me so upset," Rodrigo said. "What's really disturbing is I feel like I actually have worn outfits that are maybe revealing on stage... And that wasn't inappropriate, but me fully covered up in a dress that people deemed to be childlike was inappropriate.""
""I just think it really shows how we really normalise pedophilia in our culture.""
""It's just this rhetoric that we're fed as girls since we're so little, which is, don't wear that because then a man is going to sexualise your body and it's your fault. It's so weird," she said."
"Rodrigo said she worries about younger girls internalising the idea that they are responsible for preventing others from sexualising them, adding: "I'm just very protective of younger women and girls, and I don't ever want them to be fed that rhetoric.""
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