Posted on 10/12/2009 7:27:01 AM PDT by dead
Trick-or-treating -- or turning tricks?
Trashy Halloween kiddie costumes -- from a slutty thigh- and chest- baring "French maid" number to a skin- tight, mid- thigh "Major Trouble" skirt-and- shirt fatigues set -- have parents fuming.
"If girls get used to dressing like this, they might want to become a whore after Halloween," howled Harlem mom Malinda Martinez, 33, who has a 6-year-old girl.
"They're far too grown up for kids."
The marketing message is even more blatantly sexual. "The Navy ships won't want to leave the dock unless this cute sailor girl is on board," reads one catalog entry for a teeny-weeny sailor costume in sizes that can fit a 4-year-old and sold by West 14th Street store Party City.
"It is so wrong," said Sharon Lamb, author of the book "Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters From Marketers' Schemes."
"The message being put out there is that it's right to be slutty on Halloween. That's what Halloween is all about now. The one night when it's OK to live your fantasies, marketers are telling children their fantasies should involve sex. It is very damaging."
A reporter found a slew of slutty Hal loween costumes for kids at a Party City outlet on East Fourth Street, including:
* A Goldilocks get-up suitable for a Penthouse party: clingy gingham lace-up peasant dress with a white petticoat "that's all grown up, and you can have your porridge and more."
* A pirate costume dubbed the "High Seas Hottie" -- made in sizes to fit an 8-year-old.
* A women-in-chains fantasy costume called "Convict Cutie" that features a spandex dress and lace-up bodice.
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Yeeesh. What happened to the days of fairy princesses and Raggedy Anns?
Reason #17 to skip Satan’s holiday again this year.
Oh dear - what would roman polanski do?
So, who is actually purchasing these “costumes”? Parents maybe of are the eight year olds just saving up to get one?
So, who is actually purchasing these “costumes”? Parents maybe of are the eight year olds just saving up to get one?
Disgusting. This fascination with Halloween is a joke. It has become a big business for the candy and sugar companies. Retailers want to kill any mention of Christmas but some demonic celebration is fine.
Guess I’m just an ole fuddy-duddy. I got my grand-daughters three plain old costumes they wanted. A pink turtle for the little one, a bumble bee for the middle one, and a princess for the older one. (These are the ones they picked from the catalog I get every year after buying online for one year.)
Reminds me of the year a 35-year-old woman dressed in a pussycat leotard showed up at my front door, alone, around 9:30. My wife was not amused.
Public schools do their damnedest to indoctrinate kindergarteners into same-sex experimentation, pro-abortion views, and AIDS awareness, yet the parents are bitching about Halloween costumes? Geez, get your priorities straight.
I’m gonna hang a sign out front of my house “Sorry Kids, Obama took my money and there’s no candy this year”.
She coulda come over by my house.
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Nonsense. There are a few districts out of thousands around the country that try this. The vast majority have nothing to do with it. I bet you don't even have kids in the system and so don't know for yourself.
My KIDS hate all the spooky Halloween stuff. We have never “celebrated” it.
LOL! We have some who show up (14-15 yrs old) with NO costume. Just ‘street clothes’ and a plastic bag (for the handouts, of course). *rolls eyes*
Nobody is forcing the parents to buy these costumes or to shop the stores where they are sold.
I’ve never been a fan of Halloween and I refuse to decorate the house for it. For the first time I’m not giving out candy this year. I dont like the evil that is promoted.
“So, who is actually purchasing these “costumes”? “
I’m guessing those parents who haven’t quite grown up themselves and who see their children as toys or accessories more than little vulnerable humans. Sometimes I wish there were a test for parenting. (only half kidding here)
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