Lolita Geisha looks modest by comparison.
Posted on 10/26/2010 10:45:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
Halloween is around the corner, so you’re expecting a steady train of ghosts, Hollywood heroes, and princesses to knock on your door.
Well, brace yourself. Princesses look different these days. The pre-teen and teenage girls who show up are likely to be wearing trampy costumes that say “s-e-x,” rather than “trick or treat.” We all know that girls are being sexualized by the culture at younger and younger ages in their daily wear. But Halloween costumes have taken things to a new low, making our little girls into sex objects even midst what is supposed to be an evening of childhood fun. The sad reality is that we live in a pop culture that is obsessed with trying to make our boys and girls think about sex all the time.
Lots of parents have issues with Halloween for religious reasons – their consciences don’t allow them to feel comfortable celebrating what they see has a night paying homage to evil. Many have opted to let their children participate in the innocent and fun act of trick or treating by setting rules that they can’t dress in costumes that glorify mutilation and death. Now they’ve got to look out for the hyper-sexualized costumes too.
Take for example, the difference in “fairy princess” costumes at a usually family-friendly retailer like Target. Many versions like a cross between a ballerina in a tutu and a 70’s era cocktail waitress. It seems as if they are trying to create a parade of children dressed up to sexually attract males. Just who they are supposed to entice is not clear: 14-year-old boys carrying bags of candy? 35-year-old dads who answer the door? The pedophile down the street?
At online costume websites or party stores, the choices are even worse. The “top costumes” for tween girls on one popular costume website showed a slew of vampy options, including the highly offensive “teen girls prisoner costume” as seen on a young model wearing thigh-high boots and 6 inch heels, and showing lots of flesh under her prison-striped mini-dress.
So what are parents to do when their 12 year old decides she’s not too old for Halloween after all, and wants to dress up like all her friends? Or when your 14-year old son plans to tour the neighborhood with a band of skimpily-dressed girls masquerading as sexually available adults?
How To Save Your Family By Protecting Your Children’s Modesty
Our daughters need to understand that what we wear, even as a costume, says volumes about who we are and what we think of ourselves. When our young girls are encouraged to put their bodies on display, in sexually precocious ways—even as a “joke” or a masquerade—they are reduced to objects. Tell your daughters that God created them to be respected as people created in His image; persons whose bodies are as precious to him as their souls. Let them know that you love and respect them too much to allow them to cheapen themselves – even for one night.
Have courage and talk about costume choices with the parents of your children’s friends, so that everyone is on the same page. If you are the parent of a young man, don’t hesitate to talk with the parents of the girls he may be going out with for Halloween. Modesty protects the hearts and minds of both young men and young women.
Finally, provide alternative entertainment. Many local churches host Fall Festivals and events that are teenagers specific, or where they are invited to help host parties for the younger children. And most of them have costume guidelines.
It’s time to slam the door on the marketers of sleaze and give the night back to our children.
Back then our costumes were a plastic mask you could barely breath through, and some apron-like thing you tied around yourself!
My list of freakish outfits:
Woody Woodpecker
Casper
Optimus Prime
Fred Flinstone
Lolita Geisha looks modest by comparison.
I find it interesting that Halloween has become a day of horror,such as the dead rising from their graves and Jason from Friday the 13th coming to slaughter teenagers.
Somehow I don’t see an issue here. 8^P
My only problem is that we are rural and do not get any trick or treaters.
Great times and if someone dressed like they did now, there would be serious questions as to the household goings on. We didn’t see any of this coming.
covers up all her skin in a very modest manner, except the maybe 2 inches between crotch and mid-thigh.
Just like a Catholic school uniform.
Why, Bismallah! ---it's practically a burqa!
Halloween is for kids. A much greater percentage of houses in poorer neighborhoods have kids, therefore more holiday crap.
Rich neighborhoods, not so much kids.
I think you have just summed-up the entire premise of the film Idiocracy in 25 words....
yeah and????
old people like christmas lights too. That other crap, not so much.
Ditto that. And there was always one boy who would dress up as a girl ... blue chiffon party dress, wig, high heels, makeup, the whole bit. And we never thought anything of it back then -- because the day after Halloween, he was back to normal (but did we ever laugh at him on Halloween).
The point isn’t that the costumes are modest. The point is that such immodesty is on display at friday night football games across America.
Lolita Geisha
are you illiterate? read those two words and tell me what the hell you think they mean.
That’s a pretty harsh generalization!
So, if I’m poor and white and have a Halloween decoration outside my home...then I’m “white trash.”
I’m not white trash.
I work in “rich, white” neighborhoods, and believe me, there are just as many Halloween decorations there as anywhere else I go—maybe they’re just a bit more expensive decorations, though.
My mind is not settled. We need more cheerleader pictures. For analytical purposes.
I honestly think so. Up until the nineties, life was great. No PC, comedies with actual humor, and great dance music.
I’ve always thought it weird that the most prim and proper, well mannered ladies are the ones to push the whore look big time at halloween. Repressed urges? Secret slut? Who knows, we had a few “lohan” shots at the office xmas party too.
When I was a kid, my favorite dress-up costume was always a “hobo” or “tramp.” I’m contemplating doing it THIS year, and I’m definitely no longer a kid!
Any pair of older sweatpants and sweatshirt will do for your costume. Then:
Find a few different-colored old rags.
Cut from the rags about 8-12 irregular shapes of about 2-3 inches long/wide and sew them with large stitches on random places on the sweatshirt and sweatpants, thereby creating makeshift “patches.”
Wear old tennis shoes.
Take a bandana, place more bunched old rags in the center of it, fold up corners to the middle, and tie to the end of a stick (that’s your “pack”).
Color in your chin and cheeks with black or brown eye shadow or eyebrow pencil to make it look like you have a scruffy beard.
You’re all set!
There you have your (inexpensive) costume!
¨It´s almost time.¨ ¨Five more days till Halloween...Silver Shamrock.¨
My kids costumes made from cardboard boxes:
Houses
Red and blue mailboses (when they were new)
Tootsie Rolls
Wrigley gum.
Robot
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