Turning Tricks for Treats
Oct. 29th, 2008 07:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vovatI like looking at the stuff in Halloween stores, especially the generic brand costumes that are supposed to look like copyrighted characters. You know, like "Hero Girl" instead of Wonder Woman, and "Eurasian Tourist" instead of Borat. There was also an "Umpa Loompa," but I think that was actually licensed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory merchandise, so I'm not sure what's up with the spelling. Maybe they've started using a new Romanization system for Oompa-Loompish, like how Peking is now Beijing.
What bothers me, however, is slutty costumes for little kids. I mean, I'm cool with sexy costumes for adults, although some of them tend toward the absurd. (Since when is a bee sexy, for instance?) But when you get a "naughty wizard" costume clearly labeled "pre-teen," and a picture of a prepubescent girl in a provocative pose on the front. Is that considered acceptable these days? In the GameStop at that same mall, they had a fake guitar for playing Rock Band and Guitar Hero with a picture of Aly and A.J., two more of the bland young pop stars churned out by the Walt Disney Company, and they looked pretty tarty themselves. I don't know how old they are now, but does every crappy pop star have to be sluttified? I mean, just look at Miley Cyrus. Or better yet, don't, unless you like seeing teenage girls posing for smutty pictures, in which case I might advise you to seek help. Ah, but she's no tramp, because she has a purity ring! It's perfectly okay to be as slutty as you want as long as you don't actually have any mutual genital contact until you've walked down the aisle with some boy your redneck dad has picked out. And oral sex doesn't count as sex.
What bothers me, however, is slutty costumes for little kids. I mean, I'm cool with sexy costumes for adults, although some of them tend toward the absurd. (Since when is a bee sexy, for instance?) But when you get a "naughty wizard" costume clearly labeled "pre-teen," and a picture of a prepubescent girl in a provocative pose on the front. Is that considered acceptable these days? In the GameStop at that same mall, they had a fake guitar for playing Rock Band and Guitar Hero with a picture of Aly and A.J., two more of the bland young pop stars churned out by the Walt Disney Company, and they looked pretty tarty themselves. I don't know how old they are now, but does every crappy pop star have to be sluttified? I mean, just look at Miley Cyrus. Or better yet, don't, unless you like seeing teenage girls posing for smutty pictures, in which case I might advise you to seek help. Ah, but she's no tramp, because she has a purity ring! It's perfectly okay to be as slutty as you want as long as you don't actually have any mutual genital contact until you've walked down the aisle with some boy your redneck dad has picked out. And oral sex doesn't count as sex.
