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October 31, 2008

Trick-or-tramp

england.jpg It's that time of year again. You're walking along when all of a sudden — boo! — out jumps a newspaper wringing its hands and tut-tut-tutting over how society forces innocent little girls to wear slutty Halloween costumes.

Somehow these thumbsuckers on the evils of objectifying young women always manage to run with photos of young women in skimpy outfits, but that's another story.

The slutoween meme has gotten so tired that this year the Boston Globe ran the opposite way, proclaiming (with the usual lack of evidence required for trend stories) that girls are dressing less sexy this year.

This is one of those issues I've always filed under the heading of parental responsibility — which was, of course, easier to do before I became a parent. My daughter is still young enough that this isn't a serious problem for us yet, but I did consider that my task would be all the more easy if she chose to dress as something that can't possibly be made sexy.

Which is why I was just fine with one contender: Pippi Longstocking. A little girl in rags and dorky hair with a monkey — Pippi is the anti-hot.

But, as I discovered searching for costumes, it turns out that our perverted society really can make anything smutty.

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In the end, my daughter decided to be a princess-chef, a persona still uncorrupted by the pornmongers, if only because it's too small a niche for even the most determined fetishists.

Postscript: A little searching also revealed that there is a recent animated incarnation of Pippi, for children, that could be considered inappropriately sexy. After the jump, Pippi looking alarmingly like the sixth Huckapoo girl.

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Posted by Daniel Radosh

Comments

Pippi is European and therefore already hypersexual. A condition I fear holds true as well for the Finn Family Moomintroll.

I suggest female secret agent for concerned fathers:

"Julia Pirie, who has died aged 90, spent two decades as an MI5 agent at the heart of the Communist Party of Great Britain, most of it as personal assistant to the party's general secretary.

A small, dumpy woman with the appearance of a confirmed and rather matronly spinster..."
-Daily Telegraph, Oct 28, 2008

Sexy Moomins? Really?

"a persona still uncorrupted by the pornmongers" you know this is a baldfaced challenge to the internet, right?

Esme will be a bumble bee again this year (her third year as such). Mary stayed up till 3 last night making the costume from scratch. A bee is strangely appropriate for Esme since it's the one thing in the world she's afraid of (after being swarmed and bitten multiple times at a birthday party). I'll post some pics on facebook later...

you know this is a baldfaced challenge to the internet, right?

Yeah, Daniel, I would have pegged you (ouch!) as someone who was familiar with Rule 34.

Somehow these thumbsuckers on the evils of objectifying young women always manage to run with photos of young women in skimpy outfits, but that's another story.

Ooh, people who will use any excuse to run gratuitous pictures of young women in skimpy outfits make me so mad...

You meant to write that girls are dressing less sexily, not less sexy, right? All struggles are one, ya know.

How they gonna bag the best treasure sperm if they don't start learning technique young?

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