I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean like this?
>>Most store-bought costumes for tween and teen girls exhibit T&A
T&A is empowerment. I wish I had something I could wiggle and cause 50% of the human race to just stop thinking for a few seconds. ;-)
How about just not participating in a satanic celebration.
>>At the end of the day, any costume that your daughter creates and is comfortable wearing is a good one for her. Don’t let a shabby store costume dampen her self esteem. Let her self esteem blossom through creative expression in a costume she creates.<<
Self esteem is all Millenials think about.
Self-WORTH is foreign to them.
Just dress like sluts and “hook up” as you always do. Sex occupies the same level of importance as food for this generation.
This blogger says she’s a proponent of ‘empowering girls’ and then uses a term like T & A.
Feminists don’t realize how aligned they are with misogynists.
They don’t see how they enable anti feminine culture. They think birth control and abortion are good for females. They are good only for males who want to remain boys their whole lives.
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I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean like this?
empowered girls
non-empowered girls
non-empowered boys
I long for the good old days when it was children, or even boys and girls...
We always made our own costumes when I was a kid, and I made them for my kids when they were growing up. One of the best ones my son thought up was an old plaid shirt, pants and jacket with the pockets turned inside out, and a “What Me Worry?” rubber mask from the Party store. He had a sign on his back that said “Chrysler Executive”. It was during the 70s when Chrysler was facing bankrupcy. He won first prize at the skating rink with that one.
My daughters were witches with taffeta gowns made out of one of my old cocktail dresses from college, Betsy Ross one year, Indian maidens and Geisha girls other years, etc.
One of the best costumes I remember when I was a kid was a person — rather tall and skinny — who showed up at a Jr. High dance in a long, slim black dress and a rubber mask and wild wig of an old crone. This individual had a crooked walking stick and slipped into the party all hunched over. Nobody knew who it was until the unmasking. It turned out to be a male classmate in his mother’s dress. Nobody had guessed. He won first prize.
She looks a bit goofy to me.
Thanks for posting this.
Yeah, every little girl wants to dress up as a Supreme Court justice.
What’s an “empowered” girl, anyway? Can’t be anything too great, because someone had to give her that power.
A few years back my niece borrowed her younger sister’s Amazing Ally doll and went as a stay at home mom.