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It's common for boring female grownups to dress up as slutty nurses/schoolgirls/nuns or whatever on Halloween, but now pre-teens are mimicking their airhead elders, and there's a whole range of sexually provocative costumes on sale for pre-pubescent girls. The retail chain Party City is well-stocked with everything to make this Halloween a happy one for pedophiles, from a pirate costume for 8-year-olds dubbed the "High Seas Hottie" to a "Devil Grrrl" costume that comes with a red miniskirt, fishnets, a tiny pitchfork, and the sales pitch: "This grrrl devil likes to get things heating up!" It gets creepier.
The store's lace Goldilocks costume has packaging assuring young customers that the attire is "all grown up, and you can have your porridge and more." A Post reporter who started asking questions about the costumes was "booted" from a Party City outlet on East Fourth Street, but one outraged mom tells the tabloid, "If girls get used to dressing like this, they might want to become a whore after Halloween."
Naturally, there are plenty more online, where the website Buy Costumes sells disturbing looks for kids such as Heidi and the Pink Maid, which promises that "cleaning house has never been so fun!" Ugh, it's only a matter of time before we start seeing "Slutty Diaper" costumes out there, isn't it?
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Pedo Bear does not understand the question
"If girls get used to dressing like this, they might want to become a whore after Halloween."
Ma'am, we can only hope.
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gross. but this is just the tip of the iceberg for inappropriate clothing marketed towards young girls. make little girls aware that every creep can't wait to read a slogan (Hot, Juicy, etc.) off their ass and then wonder why teen pregnancy is reaching younger and younger girls.
girls and women have a tough time navigating this world unscathed. i'm not sure what your point is about teen pregnancy (that would have a lot to do with poor sex ed), but 1. we've got to stop telling girls that their only worth is through being sexy for men. 2. pandering to pedos needs to stop.
I'd just like to point out that its funny to see this (muted) outrage right next to the "mock-pedophelia" of an American Apparel add for striped body suits.....
Dude...hands off the American Apparel hottie. I totally saw her first.
Seriously, who IS that chick!?!?
you don't remember her from band camp?
Roman Polanski: "The Devil Grrrl made me do it!"
He never stood a chance.
I was thinking the same thing over the weekend.
Damn you Miley Cyrus!
Brooklynben: agreed. So much outrage, but they sure seem fine taking advertising dollars from American Apparel.
Pot meet Kettle.
dimes
Okay, this is why people become hermits and live off the grid. I get it now.
oh what a world.
and where's this american apparel ad??
hubcap - refresh a few times.
My vote:
No for under 16 - though realistically many already often dress sexually suggestive the rest of the year (sayz NYC schoolteacher friends). Who are the parents who buy these outfits? ...oh right, our world does include the Ramsey family and others like it.
I'm much more offended by American Apparel and their 365 day onslaught of 13 year old nipples in tight clothing writ 30 feet tall on billboards.
If you're over 30 and wanna get all cougar about it, why not? I don't think it makes you an "airhead," just horny on a day when its socially acceptable to play that card in obvious fashion. Men outnumber women in this city, I don't blame them for taking the opportunity to get some extra attention while brandishing a feather duster. Its the women who take the extreme opposite approach who look lame (oh great you made yourself look ugly, how liberated). Halloween is not to be over thought, its supposed to be fun. This is the time of year we eat dyed corn syrup shaped like corn you know...
Actually women out number men in NYC not the other way around (generally speaking).
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=New+York+City+Male+and+Female+population
Of course it doesn't really breakdown if they're married, attached, old, etc.
There are lots more single women in this city than men. And I love the way they dress on Halloween. But let's spare the little girls OK. I mean, whatever happened to Snow White costumes?
your screenname is not "jenchungsbra"! wtf?!?!
i really hate american apparel ads, but they've never shown a 13 year old. if halloween is supposed to be fun, why do you assume that women who don't dress slutty are trying to be "liberated"? maybe they simply like their "lame" costume.
what sizes do the JonBonet outfits come in?
The mens XXL sold out months ago.
Halloween is increasingly becoming a time for adult women to dress like skanks even when they're too old to do so.
how old is too old? i've never seen an old woman dressed that way on halloween. that's not the problem--it's when they are too young that rational people complain about the slutty costumes.
Gloria V for Halloween?
Vanderbilt?
STRIPED BODYSUITS!
I agree with the viewpoint of this story. When will we stop sexually objectifying young girls and..
Oh wait.
--a barely legal American Apparel chick showing off her ass on my computer screen!!
Oh, Gothamist --have ye NO self-perspective..?
I'd make another snarky response, but I just ran out of Tissues.
bbl. I'm switching to socks
Reverse the order, eco-terrorist.
Just have to look at the people in the media. Paris Hilton and the Kardashian are famous for being whores, slutty, and making a sex tape.
A woman goes to the costume shop and tells the clerk she wants to dress like a hooker for Halloween.
"Miss, ALL of our women's costumes will make you look like a hooker, just pick one!"
I was a coked-out hooker for Halloween last year just to make the point of this joke. People actually acted shocked and dismayed at my costume- apparently denial is still not just a river in Egypt.
Hi, my name is Wza and I have plenty of "white" friends.
wink, wink!
HELLLLO! CATHOLIC CHURCH??!!
If you've never left your house in your lifetime, be advised that the Catholic Church likes to dress young girls in the sexiest outfits known to man and every time any man sees young school girls in knee high socks and short skirts, we have to fight the sexual reference, look away and not comment even though it's the 800 lb gorilla in the room that, let's face it, looks kinky and 100% fuckable.
I think I just came.
I feel like this isn't news? I remember seeing costumes like this when I was in middle school - sure that's 4, 5 yrs older than the girls these costumes are marketed to, I think, but there were definitely french maid costumes and the ilk when I was in grades 6, 7, 8.
Yet another reason to hate Halloween.
yearly october rehash of same story every year, every outlet, every newspaper.
gothamist deserves a pulitzer, is there a nobel prize for this kind of reporting?
That's some pretty fucked up shit right there. What is this, Bangkok?
Not to go too wild defending Gothamist here, but internet advertising does not exactly work that way.
Space on the -ist sites are likely bought in bulk by reselling advertising networks who then either sell that space to other networks or to agencies representing a direct client, leaving the actual website (in this case, Gothamist) many steps removed from what advertisers/ads appear on their pages. Advertisers can choose what sites in a network their ads will be placed on (which is generally a bloated rate), but it really only works the other way if the ads contain malware or are basically illegal to run.
"might just make her want to be a whore after halloween"
she might just want to be a whore, and the costume has nothing to do with it
At this point, skip the candy and hand out condoms instead.
Unfortunately, the costumes are just an after-thought. Say what you will about the women's Lib movement, but nowadays, it's being broadcast to women around the country that a powerful woman is one who uses her sexuality.
A woman is not powerful unless she's being adored by thousands...Sotomayor is not shown as being a role model...Britney Spears is, Miley Cyrus is, even Erin Andrews is...A woman isn't valuable until she's a sexual object.
If it wasn't in the makes for hundreds of years, I'd be upset. Unfortunately, the only thing to do is fight against the current and be not "hot". So sad...