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
To: mathprof
Trolling for hits, eh, mathprof? (grin)
I'm in!
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
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)
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.)
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?)
To: mathprof
7 posted on
10/19/2006 7:23:37 PM PDT by
lesser_satan
(EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
To: mathprof
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!)
To: mathprof
Here's where the blame lies...uh, stands...

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.)
To: mathprof
To: mathprof
Perhaps, say some scholars, it could even be good.Oh yea.. Scholars opine! Trash only fit to print in the NYT
To: mathprof; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; SandyInSeattle; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
There are pics. You need another reason?

To: mathprof
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.”)
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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