Olivia Rodrigo addresses backlash over her babydoll dresses and says it reflects “normalized pedophilia” in culture: “I have worn outfits that are maybe revealing on stage, like, I’ve worn a sparkly bra and little shorts, which is my right- that wasn’t inappropriate, but me fully covered up in a dress that people deem to be like childlike was inappropriate. It’s like how we normalize pedophilia in our culture. It’s this rhetoric that we’re fed as girls since we’re so little, which is like, ‘Don’t wear that because then a man is going to sexualize your body and it’s your fault.’ I didn’t think I looked sexy in that at all […] I just think that if we start dressing in a way that’s like, ‘Oh, I don’t want some [f**king] freak to think that I am sexy, like, a baby,’ it’s just losing the plot a little bit. I’m very protective of younger women and girls, and I just don’t want them to be fed that rhetoric. You shouldn’t be responsible for some guy sexualizing you in a way that was never your intention.”
