I've had yahoo mail since the very early 2000s and to get to it I have to see the yahoo main page and news stories. They are an aggregator but generally their news is very far left and very pro lgbt/whatever the trendy racial narrative is (they turned off comments on articles because it was very clear that the majority of the readers were not aligned with they yahoo staff).
I saw the headline of an article about an interview with Millie Bobbie Brown from Stranger Things talking about being "sexualized" at a young age. What do they mean when they say sexualize? Is that like the male gaze where feminists screech if a man finds a woman attractive, but it's ok for them to go on and on about how hot certain guys are to them?
It is also confusing because some female singers will have songs glorifying slutty behavior and that is seen as empowering. So is sexualization another meaningless term like male gaze?
If she is calling out actual despicable behavior in Hollywood then great, but unfortunately so many terms have been watered down.
Yes, you've got it. They usually mean it in the "men found me attractive and wanted to sleep with me". When it comes to actresses, they mean the directors took care to depict them in a sexualized manner. Stuff in movies can be pretty subtle. I haven't watched the TV series so I can't comment to it. It could be anything from how she was forced to dress, some dialogue with sexual innuendo, to instructions for her on how to eat or exercise to make sure she doesn't get fat (women see being forced to be skinny as sexualizing them because men find skinnier women more attractive even if women want to be pigs).
Off the actual filming, you're going to have other child actors that would have found her attractive and tried to make advances on her. She may have even been pressured by friends/family or peers to be more sexual to help her career, etc...
One way or another, no one can avoid the fact that when it comes to young women, sex is really all anyone looks at them for. Think 16-18yo girl and seriously tell me any redeeming qualities about them other than sex appeal. They aren't going to be engaging conversationalists, they aren't going to have superior skills or knowledge in anything, they aren't smart, they aren't wise but they are at the peak of their life in terms of sexual attraction. Women absolutely hate this fact and try to do everything they can to play the victim.