We don't observe Halloween in our house (because Mommy and Daddy are mean), so I hadn't noticed that the consumer trend toward the sluttification of young girls has hit Halloween costumes. Gripes one dad:
To the parent that thinks it's "cute" to buy those slutty costumes for your girl,You have failed as a parent. What are you thinking? It is NOT cute to dress your little girl in fishnet stockings, platform boots, exposed midriffs, vinyl whatever or anything resembling a Bratz doll. What are you raising your daughter to be anyways? Pregnant at 14.
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I’m not some freak or prude, I'm a normal parent who is actually pretty liberal. In fact if a grown woman wanted to walk around showing her boobs, God bless her, she's grown and that's her choice - BUT I draw that line at sexualizing little girls. Be a parent! They don't deserve to be thrown into the adult world. They'll have the rest of their lives to deal with that.
Another dad, surveying with his wife the options for a Halloween costume for their young daughter, found the following choices:
Witch slut. Witch whore. Baby witch cheerleader slut. From hell. Who dresses their kids in this crap?I'm not some Puritan -- if you're an adult or my prom date and you feel like Witch Crack Whore looks good on you, fine, here's a pipe and $5 for a blow job -- but the thought of dressing up young girls in midriff-baring costumes, slinky skirts and laced-up baby heels had me spinning. It got worse as the girl costumes got older, as if every year in a girl's life means another inch of skirt above the knee.
And it had me wondering.
"Would anyone ever sell a Chippendale outfit for young boys? Would a parent ever buy one?"
Of course not.
Behold, the diabolical awesomeness that is the Bratz Pretty Baby Slutty Cheerleader Costume:
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I disagree...sorry. But as a younger male I dont see where the problem is here. Firstly: Girls dressing in this manner dont become sluts b/c of their dress code. They become sluts b/c of everything else that they are watching/seeing/doing. If your child is asking to wear slutty halloween costumes, then guess what: Its too late. A parents responsibility is to make sure that your child grows up with the right values. It is, im sure, hard to compete with MTV, the Brats Dolls, and what they see from their friends at school...but that's just it. Parents are so worried about what they are seeing on TV and in the NEWS that they forget to taper their childs understanding of what they're seeing.
If you spend a bit of time with your child and explain what they are seeing, hearing, learning then hopefully theese desire will be minimalized. But past that... stop being so damn puritanical. That dress isnt slutty. The girl who is wearing it isnt wearing it to be slutty. shes wearing it to be cool, to fit in, to be popular...YOU are the one makign it slutty. Do you think that the 10 year old who wants this is thinking about showing off her chest and abs and legs. No, she's thinking about how much fun it will be for her and her friends to have matching costumes and go out. Its the sick perverts who wanna sleep with the 10 year old girl that make this a slutty outfit. She probably has no idea what it even means yet. So relax.
Ok, I bought that EXACT outfit for my 4 yr old... actually she was 3 at the time. I picked it out for her because I knew she loved the Bratz. As a parent, I didnt view it as slutty. Its just above the knee, it has no sleeves but its not strapless. The shoes are boots, and the fishnet hand-thing-a-ma-bop goes on her ARM.
If anyone sees something wrong with that outfit then perhaps you have a more twisted views of what is "provacative" than what I do. I see girls wearing worse things at OTHER times of the year than that costume.
I have pictures of her in it. She loved it, I loved it, her dad was ok with it, so we saw no problem.
Well,
Personally.
If you want your child to go around it slutty outfits its totally up to you,
as long you know where shes going and you know shes going to be safe thats fine.
under a skirt itll be okay if they wore shorts.
okay i get it you dont know what there gonna do when they leave the house they could change or anything but at the end of the day if your daughter gets into trouble its there fault and they wil learn from that lesson.
But all kids need to be safe.
but i guess its all bout trust though. If you teach our child all about trust and being safe and all that stuff,then oyu can let them go and do there own thing. Everyone needs to relax that picture is not stutty the girl just wants to have fun. She dont expect someones gonna come and take them away if a pervert does that theyve got the problem keep a close eye on your daughter but DO NOT ruin there fun. Girls are gorowing up to fast, just let them do there thing.
I'll be waiting to hear your grief-laden cries for help when your daughters end up missing.
There are MANY pedophiles out there. Have you ever done a search on the registered sex offender database? In my urban zip code alone there are almost 200 of them.
It's not a matter of how advertising of sexuality YOU think it is. It's a matter of how how at-risk you're putting your children.
If a child is old enough to be trick-or-treating, she is not old enough to be wearing revealing clothing.
to all those who complan about everything in the world (you know who you are), here is something new to try. When you see something you dont like or dont agree to, look the other way and mind your own buisness or did they stop teaching about the important things. Grow up, stop winning, there are other people here in this bubble that you think is your own. bye bye.
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