An Open Letter, Ostensibly Addressed to The Guy In Red Robin Wearing a Skin Industries Shirt While Holding a Three or Four Year Old Girl, But Possibly- Obliquely Addressed to God

If you've given it any thought at all, I bet you imagine that your daughter is too young to think anything of the Skin Industries logo on your t-shirt. It's entirely possible that it goes unnoticed by her. She may not be able to articulate what the image is, let alone what it might mean. She may eventually have no conscious memory of this shirt, but as it's been said about things like this, "All in all, it's just another brick in the wall." Someday, just like you, she might think strippers are cool. Or maybe she'll just smother herself in the hyper-sexualized caricature of "woman" that you've made the wallpaper of her life. This is how we create the things we do without thinking. This is how we create people who internalize and gladly participate in their own destruction.
But then again, I don't- I can't have any children so I'm probably talking out my butt.