Ho Halloween

[Guest]

When did Halloween become a slut-fest?

Honestly.

We were attempting to find our 10-year-old daughter's costume during the past few days and were a bit surprised at the selection. She is long past the Disney or Sesame Street character age. Last year she was Cleopatra (I made her costume) and the year before she was Hermione from Harry Potter.

Our son's costume was much easier to find, of course. I found his Mega Man action hero costume on eBay, ordered it a week ago and it's already here. He's very happy. But this year our daughter couldn't quite decide what she wanted to be.

We started at Walmart, then Target, then KMart - no luck. So we went to a Costume Warehouse place. Figured there'd be a bigger selection. And there was. Sort of.

First she wanted to be Xena (just so she could wear her very cool boots). She wasn't impressed with the Xena selection, however (more like big Viking women) and the other costumes were slutty, strapless, and skin-tight.

She thought about being a nurse or a doctor. They were there, but as slutty enema nurse and horny doctor proctor.

Cheerleader? The choices were "dead" cheerleader, or "naughty" cheerleader. The former was all in black with goth makeup, the latter had miniskirt, thong and high heeled tennis shoes.

Even the vampires and witches and clowns were naughty.

*sigh*

She finally settled on an angel. Long white robe, gorgeous wings (I hot-glued white feathers for added beauty) and fur-trimmed halo. It's classy, cute, and not at all overtly sexy.

But it easily could have been, because I had to talk her out of getting the slutty angel. The slutty angel costume had white miniskirt, thigh-high stockings, a very tight top and a white feathery boa. And a crooked halo.

She's far too young for that.

I saved that one for me.

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[Colleen Thomas]

When did Halloween become a slut-fest?

Honestly.

We were attempting to find our 10-year-old daughter's costume during the past few days and were a bit surprised at the selection. She is long past the Disney or Sesame Street character age. Last year she was Cleopatra (I made her costume) and the year before she was Hermione from Harry Potter.

Our son's costume was much easier to find, of course. I found his Mega Man action hero costume on eBay, ordered it a week ago and it's already here. He's very happy. But this year our daughter couldn't quite decide what she wanted to be.

We started at Walmart, then Target, then KMart - no luck. So we went to a Costume Warehouse place. Figured there'd be a bigger selection. And there was. Sort of.

First she wanted to be Xena (just so she could wear her very cool boots). She wasn't impressed with the Xena selection, however (more like big Viking women) and the other costumes were slutty, strapless, and skin-tight.

She thought about being a nurse or a doctor. They were there, but as slutty enema nurse and horny doctor proctor.

Cheerleader? The choices were "dead" cheerleader, or "naughty" cheerleader. The former was all in black with goth makeup, the latter had miniskirt, thong and high heeled tennis shoes.

Even the vampires and witches and clowns were naughty.

*sigh*

She finally settled on an angel. Long white robe, gorgeous wings (I hot-glued white feathers for added beauty) and fur-trimmed halo. It's classy, cute, and not at all overtly sexy.

But it easily could have been, because I had to talk her out of getting the slutty angel. The slutty angel costume had white miniskirt, thigh-high stockings, a very tight top and a white feathery boa. And a crooked halo.

She's far too young for that.

I saved that one for me.

http://www.addis-welt.de/smilie/smilie/engel/a176.gif

Good grief. Slutty costumes for ten year olds? Ugh.

*HUGS*

 

[yui]

I have to admit that sexualizing children is an issue for me; the social worker in me sees a perv in every corner. It appears, that though the age of legality might have risen, in today's culture, prostitots are an alarming trend. *Hugs* for the trials, Sarah.

 

[AppleBiter]

Kids even have slutty TOYS now-a-days, for fuck's sake. It really pisses me off.

 

[Guest]

I'm still surprised by it, honestly.

I talked to a few other moms and some of the students that I work with. The kids were actually shocked at the inappropriate costumes they found when they were looking for their own apparel.

But, I also know what many high school students are wearing to school these days. Short T-shirts, very tight, lots of cleavage, lots of tummy showing.

I'm not comfortable wearing T-shirts that tight - they seem a size or two small. But apparently that is high school fashion these days.

 

[EmeraldKitten]

Shopping for a Halloween costume is a very trying experience, lol.
Things are either ugly, stupid, too small, too big, too slutty, too short, etc.
That list can go on forever, no matter who you are.

When I was shopping for mine, I was even a little surprised at some of the costumes.
'Naughty Alice' from the Disney classic, and 'Sponge Bath Betty' were the ones that got me, lol.
Of course those aren't meant for kids, but still.
My sister is 12 and she's about 5'5, 125lbs. She is the size of an adult.
Kid costumes either won't fit, or are too childish. I don't know what she's going to be.
(Luckily she's pretty modest, so she won't be begging to be the 'Naughty School Girl.' )


In the movie 'Mean Girls', Lindsay Lohan's line pretty much sums it up:
"Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut, and no other girls can say anything about it."

 

[AppleBiter]

I'm still surprised by it, honestly.

I talked to a few other moms and some of the students that I work with. The kids were actually shocked at the inappropriate costumes they found when they were looking for their own apparel.

But, I also know what many high school students are wearing to school these days. Short T-shirts, very tight, lots of cleavage, lots of tummy showing.

I'm not comfortable wearing T-shirts that tight - they seem a size or two small. But apparently that is high school fashion these days.

High school fashion seems like the only fashion available. I don't know what part of KS you live in, sarahh, but in my neck of the woods, a reasonable women's T-shirt can't be found. They're all baby-t's. If you want a regular T-shirt, you have to shop in the men's section anymore.

 

[Guest]

High school fashion seems like the only fashion available. I don't know what part of KS you live in, sarahh, but in my neck of the woods, a reasonable women's T-shirt can't be found. They're all baby-t's. If you want a regular T-shirt, you have to shop in the men's section anymore.

Yes. Exactly.

At least they are making some shirts with tanks attached underneath. A layered look that has a bit more class than the skintight stuff.

I'm uncomfortable with my daughter exposing herself in that fashion. Hell, with any young girl flaunting her prepubescent form.

It's very wrong.

 

[fieryjen]

I'm not a mother yet by a long shot, but I agree wholeheartedly. I would be shocked to see any 10-year old in this sort of costume. Sorry you had to go through that!

Now I know why I always came up with something by myself and didn't go shopping for anything.

 

[impressive]

... prostitots are an alarming trend.

I was torn between images of a new tater tot or flavor of Tostitos. When the caffeine kicked in, I got the real meaning.

My daughter (7) swept past all the slutty costumes (at Target) and went straight to the snow princess costume: full-length, warm, soft, girly. I'd like to find her a muff (not THAT kind) to go with it.

My son (10) opted for Darth Vadar.

My oldest son (12) opted out. Said it's "kids' stuff."

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I have to admit that sexualizing children is an issue for me; the social worker in me sees a perv in every corner. It appears, that though the age of legality might have risen, in today's culture, prostitots are an alarming trend. *Hugs* for the trials, Sarah.

Yeah, this has been going on for a while now - at least 10-12 years. Pre-teen clothes have become not just sexual, but trashy-sexual, designed to make girls look like cheap little whores, and the clothes sell.

What amazes me is that some moms actually think their kids look cute all tarted up, although I suspect that most of these clothes are purchased by pre-teen mall rats with too much money, then smuggled back home and worn on the sly. The clothes are not only provocative, but they're status symbols as well.

 

[Liar]

Yeah, this has been going on for a while now - at least 10-12 years. Pre-teen clothes have become not just sexual, but trashy-sexual, designed to make girls look like cheap little whores, and the clothes sell.

I'd say it started earlier. Mid 80's probably. The girls my age (9-13) had role models like Madonna, Sam Fox, and other equally self-exploiting sex icons. It might be different in America and here but the in the 90's there was actually a bit of a return to less sexualisation of minors for a while. The big influences for kids fashion here has always been the music they listened to. And for a while, there was a healthy dominance of idols that didn't focus as much on sex.

Then came Britney and the Spice Girls, and things took a nose dive again.

 

[R. Richard]

The worst part of the pre-teen sex emphasis thing is that girls of that age have very few options. They look like their peers or they are outcasts. If a lot of girls look like pre-teen 'hos,' then almost all of the pre-teen girls will look like that.

 

[woodnymph_O]

You see it even in clothes shopping for little ones, In the section at walmart for 4 year olds I was amazed by the amount of tummy shirts, mini skirts and daisy dukes,this summer. I will repeat FOUR year olds.
I dont know what they are thinking.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I heard about a girl (4 or 5, maybe) who went to kindergarten dressed in a tight top that revealed her tummy, and a boy her age said to her "you look so sexy!"

Gotta start bending their minds while they're young, if you want them to fit into the role models before they're 13, right?


But, seriously - an angel? A snow princess?

The point about dressing up for Halloween isn't to dress up per se, it's about dressing up AS SOMETHING SCARY - so that you'll scare away the monsters and demons and ghouls that are creeping around during this time! That's why the tradition of dressing up for Halloween started!

What's the demon gonna do when he sees an angel? "Damned. too late!"???