Do Your Daughters Work The Corner on Halloween?

Tonight I took my 6yo son shopping for his Halloween costume.  Our first stop was The Halloween Store, which is temporarily occupying the Circuit City that used to be there.  I suspect that on November 1 it will become The Christmas Store.

The Halloween Store is set up in sections and as soon as you walk in, you are in the middle of costumes for women. It seems that women’s costumes are broken down into five categories:  slutty cheerleaders; slutty doctors/nurses; slutty teachers; slutty cops; and sluts.

It took some effort to get my son to leave this section but we made it to the kids section and looked through all the great monster costumes. He decided months ago that he wanted to bea werewolf and he found himself an excellent costume.  I tried my hardest to convince him to be Teen Wolf, complete with a Beavers basketball uniform, but he vetoed that and our werewolf has tattered jeans and a flannel shirt.

In order to make it to the cash register we had to walk through the girls costumes.  There were the standard Disney princesses and few girl superheroes which were pretty cool.  But I was shocked to also see a bunch of costumes for 10-year-olds that were … ummmm … slutty.

Red Riding Hood, witches, hippies, vampires, and angels.  Thigh high stockings, stilletos, miniskirts, and bare midriffs.  I picked one up to check that this was really for girls and indeed it said ages 10-14.  But I put it down quickly in case anyone thought I was a pervert. And I definitely wasn’t going to try and sneak a photo.

Seriously, what the hell?

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