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Growing Up Too Fast Liv Simister
Halloween night is the highlight of October for people of all ages. Children seem to buzz with excitement, desperate to put on ridiculous costumes. However, as children, the costumes were innocent enough. The typical costumes were animals, pumpkins, witches, vampires, ghosts, pirates, and princesses. As the years have gone by, those children have grown up, and now choose costumes that often depict a more suggestive image. Even the options for the children of today seem to be less discrete as the ones children of the 90s and before often had. As children, many of us went trick-or-treating, walking with neighbors and parents, laughter filling the air. Now, in our teenage years, many of us attend parties or walk the neighbor’s kids around the neighborhood, much as our parents did for us. If you attend a Halloween party now or even look at some of the people walking around on Halloween, you will often see bumblebees, princesses, pirates, animals, witches, and vampires. But these costumes have a completely different twist then they once did when we were children. While the costumes for males are not much different, the costumes for females have become increasingly suggestive. “Many girls happily line up to purchase these ridiculous costumes, but what they may not realize is that just because they are wearing a costume doesn’t mean they get to keep their pride,” says Simon Peters, an Orlando teen.One of the many controversial topics in our world today is the objectification of females in life and the media. However, by lining up to buy the costumes that have become popular, are girls allowing this to happen?