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The new york times is trying to increase its circulation:

 

POST-POST-POST-FEMINISM? Halloween is a day to flaunt your inner vixen.

TRICKS Seemingly innocuous characters have a sexy edge in costumes, which evoke male fantasies and reinforce a larger cultural message: younger is hotter.

 

1 posted on 10/19/2006 7:17:27 PM PDT by mathprof
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To: mathprof
Trolling for hits, eh, mathprof? (grin)

I'm in!

2 posted on 10/19/2006 7:19:02 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: mathprof
Hey, I love sexy chicks, but this specificaly I think is the stealthy effect of GAY CULTURE.

They're witty, and always want to dirty things up in a major way.

3 posted on 10/19/2006 7:20:14 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: mathprof

Those costume are also (with or without their parents permission) allowing teens and pre-teens to flaunt their inner vixen.


4 posted on 10/19/2006 7:20:21 PM PDT by Jeff Gordon (History convinces me that bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: mathprof

These outfits put a whole new spin on the old chestnut "Trick or treat?", depending on whether cash changes hands, one assumes.


5 posted on 10/19/2006 7:21:11 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
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To: mathprof

Well it's increased my circulation.


6 posted on 10/19/2006 7:22:02 PM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: mathprof

Niiiccce...


7 posted on 10/19/2006 7:23:37 PM PDT by lesser_satan (EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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8 posted on 10/19/2006 7:23:39 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: mathprof; patton

patton says he'll buy me that witch costume...lol! :)

honestly, i saw a series of reports about how costumes similar
to these are being marketed to 10-15 yr old girls. i find this
terribly disturbing. what on earth has happened to little
girls just dressing their age???


9 posted on 10/19/2006 7:23:53 PM PDT by leda (Life is always what you make it!)
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To: mathprof
Here's where the blame lies...uh, stands...


10 posted on 10/19/2006 7:24:43 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: mathprof
And do people wonder why so many Christians have aversions against their children going in with the world's celebrations of Haloween?
11 posted on 10/19/2006 7:25:27 PM PDT by unspun (What do you think? Please think, before you answer.)
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19 posted on 10/19/2006 7:43:03 PM PDT by Echo Talon
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To: mathprof
Perhaps, say some scholars, it could even be good.

Oh yea.. Scholars opine! Trash only fit to print in the NYT

20 posted on 10/19/2006 7:44:46 PM PDT by Nonstatist
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To: mathprof; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; SandyInSeattle; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
There are pics. You need another reason?


33 posted on 10/19/2006 10:18:51 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Natalie Maines fears me...)
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Slut sells! Thank you MTV...


40 posted on 10/20/2006 12:49:39 AM PDT by endthematrix (“Anyone who describes Islam as a religion as intolerant encourages violence.”)
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To: mathprof; Slings and Arrows

*resisting riding my broomstick jokes*

47 posted on 10/20/2006 10:47:56 AM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
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