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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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)
‘Slutty’ Halloween costumes for kids worry parents:
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HUH why are the partents just worried ???
Why arent they saying a big fat
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I've managed to cut down on the incidence of that sort of thing since I started putting my water sprinkler on my front porch during halloween.
Seems to me that the topic of the thread was Halloween costumes and not public schools.
Also seems to me that you’d support parents who are outraged by sexy slutty costumes for young children.
No doubt. They only get ONE PIECE of hard candy if they show up w/o a costume.
We have a friend who had some ‘cheeky’ ones show up at his door one year. They didn’t like the mini candy bars they got. They asked him...”Ain’t got no buttufingah?” His just shut the door in their faces.
Hahahahahahaha!
No bias here. Howled? The SRM always uses phrases such as howled when talking about someone they don't agree with. Words such as attacked, smear, etc. when a conservative tells the truth about a liberal.
What are you trying to do, start a candy rush? The shelves at Walmart will be empty as people start stockpiling candy out of fear that they won't be able to get any in the future.
Didn't we have enough headaches with the recent shortages in ammunition?
Cougar? Turning tricks, for a treat?
Please send that young lady to my neighborhood... same “costume.”
I’ll never forget my daughter saying that HER daughter would NEVER wear any “hoochie mama” slutty clothes... after fighting to wear them herself. (I said “NO” frequently!) Thank God they DO grow up!
>> LOL! We have some who show up (14-15 yrs old) with NO costume.
REALLY??? (raises eyebrows)
>> Just ‘street clothes’
Whew, thank goodness, for a minute I thought you meant they showed up buck nekkid.
Thank God they DO grow up!
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And they do finally thank you ...
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One answer -
women (re)living vicariously through their daughters.
I’ve seen it a lot.
Forget once a year costumes. Ever been shopping for little
girls clothes lately? I am appalled! Looking for dresses for an 8 year old all I see in the usual retail stores is S.I.T.
clothes ( Slut In Training). Slinky, bra top, adult looking
nightclub dresses!
Seeking an alternative I checked online for classy, ‘old fashioned’ little girls dresses. Found some gorgeous stuff but $50-$100 a dress. So I guess if you’re not loaded you have a little girl who looks like a 20 year old streetwalker.
Thank God I can sew and smock- now I have to get busy. She’s out of her tomboy phase and wants pretty clothes for church. I just, stupidly, thought there were SOME age-appropriate dresses out there....WRONG!
Amazing that mothers who dress their kids in slut clothes are actually worried about pedophiles. What can you expect when your six year old wears jeans with ‘Hot Stuff’ embroidered acrosss her butt?
Encouraging pedophilia. Charming.
We need some fundamental fairness in candy re-distribution!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVd_GFe9i4c
jeans with ‘Hot Stuff’ embroidered acrosss her butt
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Havent seen any of those..
But you do have to be careful...
I made all my daughter’s dresses...
I still have all the patterns...
Trick or treating for beer?
The two pictures at the NY Post link look pretty tame.
Oh, I’ve seen the ‘Hot Stuff’ ones and worse! Low riding hip jeans for little girls, barely covering the pubic area!
I’m with you- I’m sewing and smocking for as long as she’ll wear that type of clothes.
I swear, not kid of mine( this is my niece I’m sewing for) would ‘fit in’ with peers who wear this trash. Kids can’t shop for themselves, parents have to buy this garbage! Oh,
your little girl wants to look like the other slut-dressed kids? Too bad. She’d wear what I gave her, period. Resisting
peer pressure is great for character building- and God help anyone who made fun of my child for not looking like trash!
If more parents took a stand this trend would end.
I followed in my mother’s footsteps and made costumes for my kids. I made one of Link (”Legend of Zelda”), Pocahontas, Cleopatra, a couple of wizards, Luke Skywalker and a few others. Last year’s project was a Slytherin (”Harry Potter”) student costume for my daughter.
Even the costumes for kids in Target were appalling. Somebody is buying these things or stores wouldn’t carry them.
There are still traditional on-line costumes you can buy if you can’t make them. However, you may have to sift through some sluts before you find them.
“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).”
When those types show up at my door (and they and their mothers do), I tell them trick or treating is for little kids, not those as tall as me.
What’s really obscene are the prices...
No, not really. My post was not well-thought-out (I was in a hurry). I think that the point I was feebly attempting to make was that parents have 100% control over their kids' costumes. So, IMHO, the outrage seems misplaced when they can simply say 'no' to a particular costume. I mean, the packaging appears to display you-get-what-you-pay-for.
Contrast that with radical indoctrination public-school agenda (Kevin Jennings, 'B.H.O. mmm mmm mmm", etc.) that parents have NO rights or control over.
I would expect that parents display a stronger sense of outrage over what complete strangers are teaching their children vs. slutty Halloween costumes. Thus, my statement about 'priorities.'
They joined the democrat party.
Yep! I have been down quite the road with her too!
She just got married in August to the bestest guy in the world - she’s had a crush on him since 5th grade!
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