Halloween costumes

I currently work at Party City here in Oshkosh. Since Halloween is right around the corner, we are selling a boat load of costumes to young toddlers and children to adult males and females. Halloween is getting to be more sexualized than ever. I was looking at our "picture wall" which is a wall that has all of our costumes pictured. Mens costumes start on the right, then goes left to women, then left to teens, then left to girls, then boys, then toddlers and infants. I hear quite a few little girls ask to be a cop because they see the pictures of the female cop costumes which are VERY revealing! There mothers try to find something that suits their child better but still the costumes are getting more and more skimpy by the year even for the younger girls.

There is this one collection of "Monster High" costumes for girls. The costumes are for the most part sleeveless, short cut, thigh high tights, and low cut. These sorts of costumes are setting our future women to believe that it is alright to dress like this and parade around the streets wearing literally half of their normal wardrobe.

Halloween is supposed to be the time of year to dress up scary, not have your boobs hanging out and your hoohah almost showing. It is very degrading. How is it comfortable? I would be pulling the costume down to cover the downstairs region and trying to keep it up at the same time to cover my boobs. It just isn't right.

Growing up, when I went trick or treating I would obviously wear my costume which was usually an angel, a witch, a football player, or a pirate. Every year I was supposed to wear either a sweatshirt or a winter coat underneath because it is usually chilly out on Halloween night around 4-7 pm. Now there are more and more Halloween parties at schools and churches (atleast that is what my customers have been telling me) and the parents are letting there little girls run around with no winter coat or sweatshirt underneath their already skimpy outfits. This just blows my mind.

Do you think that the Halloween costumes are getting to be more revealing and sexualized for younger girls???

Toddlers and Tiaras

I was sitting home one evening after a long day of class and turned on the TV. I was flipping through the channels just to see what was on. My roommates wanted me to stop at the TLC show Toddlers and Tiaras. Sure it is an entertaining show but what those mothers put their children through is rediculous. Yes my mother put me in dance classes and bought us very girly outfits for the recitals but never to the extent where we would be forced to do so. These young girls are being raised to think that it is okay to spend all of this money and fancy dresses and practice rooms and all the other stuff that goes along with pageants. They are cutting money else where such as food. Some parents are resorting to extreme couponing just to get by since most if not all of their money is going to pagaents. Another thing I noticed watching the episode of Toddlers and Tiaras is that there are VERY few if any male toddlers who participate. The only male toddlers I have seen in the pagaents all have sisters who are participating in the same pagaents. Why is it that society made it "uncomfortable" and "too girly" for guys to compete. They are not showing their girly side whatsoever because they are wearing tuxedos and doing manly talents. Some of the parents who were witnessing the male toddlers perform had a look of disgust on their face. This is just wrong and it makes me mad. In the future, if my son wants to perform in a pagaent, I will let him. If he wants to play sports like football or hockey, I will let him. Whatever will make my child happy will make me happy. Same goes for if I have a daughter. If she wants to be in pagaents, then go for it. If she wants to play sports, she can go ahead and do that.

October 1, 2012

While watching the packer game this past Sunday, I noticed there were quite a few women wearing skimpy outfits. Why is it, that women feel the need to reject their bodies. They could be the smartest people out there that we know but when they get drunk and sloppy while showing off their bodies makes them look easy. I do not know how some people find that attractive. The women parading themselves around like some kind of show is degrading. How would you feel if that was your daughter. I know my father would be furious seeing how sloppy I would be looking and acting. I understand it is a packer game and that kind of thing happens on a regular basis but even at non sporting events. Take the restaurant Hooters or the Tilted Kilt for example. Their uniforms are so skimpy and degrading. Of course the women get way more tips because they are showing of their bodies and flirting with the male customers. I do not think it is right for the female employees to be dressed in such a manner and basically get better tips then men. I do not know of any type of bar/restaurant that has male servers dressing like hookers. Just saying.