{"id":13697,"date":"2009-10-31T10:37:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T15:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=13697"},"modified":"2012-10-14T01:45:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T06:45:00","slug":"halloween-costumes-and-social-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/31\/halloween-costumes-and-social-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls: Mean or Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cute Bruiser brought our attention to some Halloween costumes for girls that illustrate parallel trends. Her pictures are from a Shoppers store in Canada.<\/p>\n

1. Girls as bratty. In this case, the Drama Queen (“It’s all about me!”):<\/p>\n

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(I know, that costume doesn’t even make sense.)<\/p>\n

2. The sexualization of young girls. In this case, The Ravager from The Covenant:<\/p>\n

\"003\"<\/p>\n

Since that’s a little blurry, here’s an image from a website<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Miley Cyrus’ 9-year-old sister, Noah, chose to go this direction<\/a>, as reader Kristyn G., Spagnoli F., and Jen C. pointed out:<\/p>\n

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Lisa Wade is a\u00a0professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cute Bruiser brought our attention to some Halloween costumes for girls that illustrate parallel trends. Her pictures are from a Shoppers store in Canada. 1. Girls as bratty. In this case, the Drama Queen (“It’s all about me!”): (I know, that costume doesn’t even make sense.) 2. The sexualization of young girls. In this case, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,55,2099,2096,254],"class_list":["post-13697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-gender-femininity","tag-holidays"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13697"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14535,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13697\/revisions\/14535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}