My love for Halloween has been on somewhat of a steady decline ever since it devolved into Night of the Living Whorebags. I've still managed to get some enjoyment out of this pagan holiday by elbowing my way through the sea of sluts that flood the streets, but things are starting to get way out of hand. It's one thing for college-aged sluts to masquerade as, well, other sluts, but it's quite another for the kiddies to get in on the act.
If you look to the left, you'll see Miley Cyrus's nine-year-old sister, Noah, and friend at a recent Halloween party dressed as...I don't know...a zombie dominatrix and every parent's own private hell?
I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that Billy Ray Cyrus lets his kid walk out of the house looking like that, considering that he defended Miley's stripper pole routine and is nuthin' but proud of her increasingly racy magazine photos. And celebrities have a skewed view of the world in general, so if it were just famous people's kids using Halloween as an excuse to tramp it up, I could probably let it go. But it's not, so I can't.
The New York Post ran a story earlier this month about parents' concerns over the proliferation of trashy kids' costumes on sale. Party City was singled out as a store that happily sells outfits for tweens and younger with names like "High Seas Hottie" and "Convict Cutie." Unsurprisingly, a Party City manager kicked out the reporter who went in to ask about the jailbait gear.
Seriously, check out the kids' section of the Party City online catalog. If there is any question that the intention of these costumes is to sexualize young girls, the Jon Benet-esque makeup on the models will erase all doubt.
And if there are any ladies out there who want to tell me that I'm overreacting or being a prude, and you feel perfectly fine about letting your kids slut it up for Halloween because it's "just one night," you go right ahead. And then let me know what it's like to be a grandmother at 40.
If you look to the left, you'll see Miley Cyrus's nine-year-old sister, Noah, and friend at a recent Halloween party dressed as...I don't know...a zombie dominatrix and every parent's own private hell?I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that Billy Ray Cyrus lets his kid walk out of the house looking like that, considering that he defended Miley's stripper pole routine and is nuthin' but proud of her increasingly racy magazine photos. And celebrities have a skewed view of the world in general, so if it were just famous people's kids using Halloween as an excuse to tramp it up, I could probably let it go. But it's not, so I can't.
The New York Post ran a story earlier this month about parents' concerns over the proliferation of trashy kids' costumes on sale. Party City was singled out as a store that happily sells outfits for tweens and younger with names like "High Seas Hottie" and "Convict Cutie." Unsurprisingly, a Party City manager kicked out the reporter who went in to ask about the jailbait gear.
Seriously, check out the kids' section of the Party City online catalog. If there is any question that the intention of these costumes is to sexualize young girls, the Jon Benet-esque makeup on the models will erase all doubt.
And if there are any ladies out there who want to tell me that I'm overreacting or being a prude, and you feel perfectly fine about letting your kids slut it up for Halloween because it's "just one night," you go right ahead. And then let me know what it's like to be a grandmother at 40.
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What is it with costumes these days - really...kids need to be more conservative...
But what do you expect from an "old guy"
Also fortunately, my daughter wants to go as an angel. Not a runway angel, but just an angel, with a long white dress and wings.
Huzzah.
Plus someone ought to tell the whore-costume wearers that the idea of a costume party is to come as something you're NOT. Haha!
But here's the kicker. Some incredible, mind-numbing number of silent adults out there are buying these damn things. I don't know if they're all heroin addicts or babymamas, but they're buying these outfits, and they're dolling up their girls.
Or, I could take a separate approach. Maybe seeing neighborhood 9-year-olds dressed sluttier than Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver really IS the scariest thing you can see. Maybe it's scarier than wearing that mask from Scream or from Saw or from Friday the 13th. If that's the motive, maybe those parents are meta-modern!
P.S. If I didn't think I'd get fired, I'd so totally steal Michael's costume from The Office commercials and go to work as one of the D*** in a Box guys.
I don't want to be a dirty whore for Halloween!!!
Alice wasn't a dirty whore!!!
GAH..
Anyway, I searched for a long time..finally found a modest, normal, non-dirty whore Alice costume :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4rUiV_Hh74
(language warning)
" . . . and frog!"
OK, my sister once dressed up like an obese hobo who kept saying, "Treak or treat, if you will," but that was still very
creepy.
In any event, I fault the parents for allowing their girls to dress inappropriately.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/2007/10/jill_sobule_sings_no_to_grownu.html
(I clearly have no idea how to create links, so you'll have to cut and paste.)