ArmorOfGod
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Don't even get me started.
AoG
Don't even get me started.
AoG
Sexy French Maid Costume--FOR TODDLERS!
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It certainly is sad!
michaeledward
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If adults weren't buying these costumes for their children, the manufacturers wouldn't be making them. If you want to see who is to blame, look in the mirror.
Halloween is a childs game, that should officially end at 11 years old. But, isn't now like the second most expensive holiday, after Christmas? Adults are driving this market, not children.
I suggest you stop looking for this stuff on the web, and maybe play a game a Scrabble.
Halloween is a childs game, that should officially end at 11 years old. But, isn't now like the second most expensive holiday, after Christmas? Adults are driving this market, not children.
I suggest you stop looking for this stuff on the web, and maybe play a game a Scrabble.
What we're seeing here is just another instance of the aggressive sexualization of childhood for commercial purposes. Cosmopolitan now has a separate edition for teenagers. What's next---Cosmo Toddler? A special edition for six-to-eight year olds? The corollary of the old marketing platitude, `Sex sells', is that you move that particular pitch downward in age as the disposable income of young people increases. And if you can get even very young children implicated in the loop somehow, you're going to make still bigger profits.
It's true, the magazine industry has absolutely no qualms about selling anything that sells. Parents have got to stop and think about what kind of message they're sending to their kids by buying into this crap---and then not buy it. If enough people send letters to the manufacturer saying, in effect, on the basis of what you're trying to sell I am not only going to boycott you, but tell my friends about you and get them to boycott you... it will stop. Same with the stores that sell this grotesque stuff.
Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
Well that was friendly.
And although I know nothing here was in reference to me, other than I am a parent. I felt I should say that I do not go looking for this stuff on the Internet, and neither my wife my children or I have anything to do with Halloween.
But amazingly enough, being a parent, I am rather appalled by it when I hear about it. Therefore I do get upset and although I do not disagree with your point that they probably wouldn't sell the stuff if the parents didn't buy it and I also believe that those of us that are parents should take responsibility for such things. Therefore I do not buy it or recommend it. As a matter of fact I speak out against it.
However pointing the finger of blame is just that and it gets absolutely nothing accomplished except allowing the finger pointer to go off feeling happy they have successfully passed the buck to someone else and they can then feel that none of it is there responsibility and it becomes simply a case of it's there fault not mine therefore I need do nothing about it.
And life goes on.
bushidomartialarts
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That'd make for some very stinky costumes......
and really, the costumes are so small, it wouldn't hurt enough to make your point anyway....
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That'd make for some very stinky costumes......
You'd just have to use five or six at a time then!
I agree with Jeff! About a dozen of those costumes PLUS the shoes and dusters should tidy things up. We're talking full costumes/outfits here....
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Thank God I don't have daughters... I'd worry myself to death...
Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
As do I... but I have daughters
Yes with daughters you have some serious worries. You do with boys as well but not as much on some issues.
I agree. I do worry about my 2 boys but I find myself worrying about my buddys 3 daughters more.
Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
Welcome to my world
Frankly I am hoping my Sanda Sifu offers to teach my youngest with his daughter they are the same age.
But I will still worry... A LOT
Frankly I am hoping my Sanda Sifu offers to teach my youngest with his daughter they are the same age.
But I will still worry... A LOT
Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
Been there done that, I already went the distance with that post (no pun intended).
But I do appreciate posting of things that add stress to my life
