What Are Your Kids Being for Halloween? - Crisis Magazine
"The cultural sexualization of our little girls is no secret, but at Halloween it takes on an openness that is bizarre. For many, Halloween is a time to self-express without limits, and perhaps the sexy styles that are pushed and paraded are the collective unconscious end of the sexual agenda of the times. It is naïve to think that it is all innocent fun. The overt sensuality of girls’ costumes devalues sex and degrades femininity, encouraging women to be true objects of horror: pieces of meat on display in a butcher shop.
Then there are the boys’ costumes. Leatherface. Jason. Freddy. Michael Myers. Six-year-old ax murderers. Little boys’ interests are concentrated on gore, violence, torture, and psychosis: a theme bolstered by many video games and movies. Like the devaluation of sexuality with the girls’ costumes, boys’ costumes trivialize morality and human dignity—the very cultural attitude that excuses atrocities from porn to abortion."
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