Prosti-tots

Halloween is just around the corner and little children all over the land are eager to jump into their costumes and "extort" candy from willing "victims". Unfortunately, a large number of those children will be little girls looking more like hookers than Disney princesses. Welcome to the age of the prosti-tots.*

When I was a child I was lucky to get a mask to wear for Halloween. Now, teen and preteen girls are clamoring for sexed up costumes and parents are buying them. How sad! We live in a time when child predators are everywhere yet some parents happily offer up their daughters as pedophile eye candy.

Some will say that I'm overreacting. Halloween is just one night out of the year. Surely girls won't be harmed by looking sexy just one night. Maybe not. But why should 11, 12, or 13-year-old girls look sexy at all? What purpose does that serve except to make them enticing to the wrong men?

Of course, the little Lolitas couldn't wear those costumes if parents didn't buy them. But they do buy them. Some parents do so because they're wimps too weak, lazy, or even scared of their kids to say no. Other parents buy the outfits because they don't find them inappropriate and/or don't have a sense of boundaries. These parents want to be the "cool" parents. They want to be their girls' friends, not the people who make and enforce standards. Also, some of the Moms who buy these sexy costumes maybe trying to recapture their pre-motherhood figures through their daughters. Whatever the reason, this needs to stop.

If provocative costumes are worn on Halloween they should be worn by adults. Kids, including teens, have NO business looking sexy at ANY time. It is child abuse to push young girls into a psuedo-adult sexiness. When they grow up they'll have the rest of their lives to look trashy, if they so choose. While minors, let children be children. Don't turn your tots into prosti-tots*.

*I didn't coin this term; I heard it on the Glenn Beck Show, which inspired this post.