Letters to the Editor
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would you be so disturbed by it if she WAS a slut?
That's what creeps me out about this guy--he's not so disturbed by a 16-year-old dressing as a stripper for Halloween, he's disturbed by a VIRGIN 16-year-old dressing like a stripper for Halloween.
She's not his daughter, she's not his stepdaughter, and while there'd be no way in hell I'd let my hypothetical 16-year-old go out as a stripper for Halloween...it's really her mother's decision and not the end of the world one way or the other.
That said, I'm bored to tears by all the slutty costumes. Sex isn't a sacred cow anymore. And don't give me psuedo-feminist crap about inhibitions and prudery etc. You aren't striking any kind of blow for empowerment by dressing like a run-of-the-mill hooker. Remember Sophia Loren's saying, "Sex appeal is 50% what you got and 50% what people think you got"? When you dress in the same cookie-cutter Made-in-China whore outfit as everybody else, people ain't gonna think you got much more than what's already on display. By all means be sexy, but use some imagination!
(BTW, just finished my sewing on my own costume. Black shoes, black socks, long black skirt, white apron, pilgrim bonnet, black sweater with the red letters "JF" sewn on it...and a very cute little African-American baby doll in pilgrim clothes. You figure it out.)