What’s Wrong with Sexy Halloween Costumes?
I was watching The O’Reilly Factor last night — don’t ask me why — and Bill was slamming Target for selling sexy Halloween costumes to children. He said it was highly inappropriate for young girls of 8 to 9 years of age to be wearing sexy costumes.
I agree with his general statement, but here are two things that were driving me nuts while I was listening to him ‘bloviate’ about the issue.
One: The women in the photos on the packages appeared to be at least 18 and the costumes were obviously intended to be worn by adults or older teens.
Two: His supposition was that by wearing sexy costumes young girls are making themselves even more attractive to sexual predators. Bill, you’re wrong. Pedophiles like young girls, not mature women, so if you take an 8 year old girl and make her look like a sexy grownup woman, she is no longer attractive to him on the sick and twisted level he’s interested in. Why do you think porn sites take 18 year olds and put them in pigtails and plaid school skirts? To make them look like young girls and not like mature women.
Apparently Target folded and removed the costumes from their shelves, so once again, we’ve taken away an adult’s rights for the sake of children in a misguided attempt to protect them. Why can’t adults buy sexy Halloween costumes to wear to adult Halloween parties?
I have two girls and believe me, I’m all for protecting children, but it’s my job, not yours. I appreciate all the help I can get, but I’m sure not going to deprive you of the right to wear a sexy costume if you want. What I am going to do is not buy them for my daughters, even if they do come in children’s sizes that would actually fit an 8 year old in the first place.
Let me hear your opinons. Leave a comment, or email me at hammer@hammeruncut.com or leave a message on my call-in line. 407-745-1840
Posted: October 19th, 2006 under Commentary.
Comments: 6
Comments
Comment from Mandy Haga
Time: October 19, 2006, 7:37 pm
I just love it when someone else makes my decisions for me AND raises my child. Thanks, Bill O’Reilly, but I’d appreciate it if you’d crawl back into your hole and let me think for myself and raise my own kid. I’m sure my method works much better.
Comment from Pumpman
Time: October 22, 2006, 1:52 pm
No Spin Bill may have a point, but it’s not the one he stated. Dressing up to make you look older is what every kid does. That’s not gona change. Point is about our choices as parents.
Comment from Smeem
Time: August 6, 2009, 2:03 am
Don’t think that I’m all for him trying to rule lives, but he does have a point. However, it’s a parent’s choice whether they allow certain costmes. It is disgusting what they call costumes now. Sad and sick. And to think; they’re trying to prevent pedophailia. The only I think they’re do is helping. Like I said, it’s a parent’s choice. My mom spazzed at the costumes in the catalogues and I agreed.
Comment from Mary
Time: September 25, 2009, 2:31 pm
Oh good grief. Trust me, some parents need all the help they can get nowadays. Please stop worrying about the removal of sexy costumes from target. There are more than enough places women can go to in order to dress like a prostitute…oh, sorry, I meant “fairy”
Comment from Laughing at You
Time: October 16, 2009, 1:51 am
LOL, worried your gf won’t be able to find that Nurse-Turned-Hooker costume that you seam to crave so desperately?
I’ve been in the stores, and I can assure you that the sizes could not be intended for adult women, unless these women are midgets. The girls on the packaging of the protested costumes are indeed minors, dressed in ways that might make them look like the “barely legal” girls you are obviously so familiar with. Those porn girls, dressed in pigtails, are not dressed to look like children, they are dressed to look like sluts who can fulfil the “whose your daddy” fantasy.
I’ve never seen an 8 year old’s private school uniform that required that the 8 year old’s @$$ hang out from under the skirt, or that the shirt be tied under the childs non-existant breasts as the only form of closure.
You seem confident that you can say no to your kids if they start asking for the outfits that society tells them they need to be accepted. Wouldn’t you rather they not be told that by society in the first place? As a parent, stand up and take resposibilty for the images that you are willing to allow society to show your children.
Also - from the Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders:
“Some pedophiles offer rationalizations or excuses that enable them to avoid assuming responsibility for their actions. They may blame the children for being too attractive or sexually provocative. They may also maintain that they are “teaching” the child about “the facts of life” or “love”; this rationalization is frequently offered by pedophiles who have molested children related to them. All these rationalizations may be found in pornography with pedophilic themes.”
Some pedophiles claim that children are sexual creatures by nature.
So feel free to dress your little girls up as whores. You’re only telling them, and the predators, that it’s OK for kids to be sex objects.
Comment from Hammer
Time: October 16, 2009, 7:53 am
Where did I say it was okay to dress girls up as whores you moron? And I don’t know what store you shop at but the costumes that were taken off the shelves, and the ones that I was talking about, did not show pictures of underage children.
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