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    Marriage & Divorce - 2 hours ago

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The Lifestylists

To skank or not to skank?

Posted Tue, Oct 27, 2009
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Miley Cyrus(Wire Image)I've been having this conversation with several people lately: specifically, what to be for Halloween and whether to walk the ever popular 'skanky version of any costume' road or go the 'creative, cute and maybe not so sexy' route. Apparently though, super duper tight sexy, short, bright latex seems to win out.

It seems to be the annual conundrum for girls as soon as going as a witch or princess just doesn't cut it anymore (that is, unless it's 'sexy witch' or 'sexy princess'). And for many women, Halloween seems to be a night when they throw caution to the wind and unleash their inner skank: short skirts, hooker boots, tons of makeup and lots and lots of skin.

Oh did I say women? I'm sorry. I meant the 9-year-old sister of a pop star.

Yes, apparently Noah Cyrus is at the perfect age to start slutting-it-up in the Halloween costume department.

Forget trick-or-treating, bobbing for apples or carving pumpkins, this seems to be the way some girls are celebrating All Hallow's Eve these days.  And damn, that's scary. At least when older women dress up like turbo skanks, they've decided to skank it up of their own free will. In Noah's case, she's young enough that her parents should step in and show her what is what when it comes to dressing up (especially on the red carpet).

I'm 24 years old, and even I feel awkward letting it all hang out on Halloween. That's not to say I don't advocate ladies looking sexy, I just think a modicum of taste could be applied on October 31st. Apparently, Noah (and Billy Ray) did not get the memo.

Which begs the question? How young is too young for Halloween (specifically, the sexification of the Halloween costume)? And on that note, how old is too old to be out there trick or treating?

What are you going to be for Halloween? Do you go to the sexy or creative route when it comes to your costume?

- Vanessa 

P.S. And just for fun, here's our favourite video on the subject of ridiculously sexified Halloween costumes: warning for coarse language. 

 

 

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25 Comments

  • 1. Posted by Fede on Tue, Oct 27, 2009

    Oh my gosh! Sexy JESUS! That's an insult to Christ!

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  • 2. Posted by Velda on Tue, Oct 27, 2009

    So true!

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  • 3. Posted by mirela on Wed, Oct 28, 2009

    i cant believe it!!!!

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  • 4. Posted by efstratia83 on Wed, Oct 28, 2009

    I gotta say, that video was HILARIOUS! LOL! I mean it was meant to be humourous and that it was if you don't take it seriously. He reminds me of Tony Soprano when he's trying to yell! LOL! Even still, I think that girls should just stick to being girls and stop trying to grow up so fast. I mean, my mom didn't even let me shave my legs at 9 years old and here is a little girl dressed like she's going to turn tricks on Rodeo Drive. What is wrong with these parents!?!? Dressing your child like a whore will NOT jump-start her to stardum! Hallowe'en is no exception. Well, unless she's looking to end up in Playboy magazine. Shame on these parents! What is this world coming to!?!? These people are raising talentless, spoiled little brats! Put some clothes on her! Geez!

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  • 5. Posted by cup_cake_babe on Wed, Oct 28, 2009

    i think this is bull... little 9 year olds should not be wearin something like this.. this is how they winde up raped or worse... dead... its sad how parents will let preteens wear things like this... so make ur preteen wear at least a dress 2 the knee...

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  • 6. Posted by John on Wed, Oct 28, 2009

    I'm a Guy. I'm 25. I have all my teeth, a Great job, and am generally successful at attracting attention from the opposite sex. Please, if I may, allow me to pass this along to any sane, normal women reading this post: Halloween is about having a good time, laughing with friends, and maybe throwing on a costume. The "sexification" of this "Holiday" is hilarious in my eyes, as well as many of my guy friends I have spoken to. Girls that dress as "Skanks" on Halloween look like just that......Skanks. While you will deffinitely get some attention going in the Bra and Panties, and claiming you're a "Sexy Manican at LaSenza", you will be getting the exact attention most women make fun of "Everyday Skanks" for attracting everyday. In short, you might get a bed mate, but forget about a phone number. If that's what you're into, let the Skank Costumes Fly, and when someone laughs at you for your "It's just a costume" defence, don't be surprised. As one of the "nice guys", I'll be asking the awkwardly dressed "Lady Box Robot" for her number, and then you'll find us on the dance floor, laughing at the skanks.

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  • 7. Posted by gin-gin on Thu, Oct 29, 2009

    april, you idiot - women and girls do not wound up rape based on what they wear. Rape is NOT about sex it is about POWER and CONTROL. That is like blaming the victim for being raped - dressing like a "skank" (funny how there is no male equivalent - sexist double standards) does not give ANYONE the right to rape you. A woman could walk around naked and NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO RAPE HER! This stupid mentality is what people have been using for the longest time - feminists put a rest to that misogynistic way of thinking. You probably don't think much of feminism, but the day your 18 year old daughter gets sexually assaulted while wearing a "sexy" outfit, you will thank your lucky star that feminists pushed to eliminate the way of thinking, where the victim is responsible for what happens to them, simply by not dressing conservatively.

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  • 8. Posted by GoodIdea on Thu, Oct 29, 2009

    Sexy isn't necessary for Halloween, unless your slut side really needs to get out. So maybe that is the perfect opportunity. What a shame about the Cyrus girl, her parents should know a little better.

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  • 9. Posted by GOO on Fri, Oct 30, 2009

    gin gin thats the line of thinking that does get you in trouble. Yes no one deserves to be raped, but YOU can't control the people out there with a mental problem. So YOU have to look after yourself and trynot to get into those situations. But the way you think, your saying lets go to the biker bar and call them pu$$ies, but since they shouldn't assult me they won't? You are dumb if you believe that! And remember, so they should'nt rape, but at the end of the day, if your the skank and he's the rapist he may go to jail for awhile, but you'll be the one with the life time memory, see if your stupid line of thinking is any solace for ya? Wake up moron

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  • 10. Posted by fred2028 on Fri, Oct 30, 2009

    This Noah Cyrus girl in the picture has a hideously ugly face.

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  • 11. Posted by Hilliebabee on Fri, Oct 30, 2009

    When I was nine, my mom would have locked me in the closet before letting me out of the house looking like that. Hell, she'd probably try now!

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  • 12. Posted by wolfsowl on Fri, Oct 30, 2009

    To Fred: That's pretty rude, she's a 9 YEAR OLD GIRL. She probably looks just fine without the skank makeup she is wearing. I question her parents sanity at allowing their daughter to wear this, not to mention letting Miley pose for "lolita" photos when she was 15... I think they've been blinded by the general skankiness of Hollywood.

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  • 13. Posted by on Fri, Oct 30, 2009

    Ladies - SKANK IT UP! Girls - GTF back in the house and put on an appropriate costume Simple.

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  • 14. Posted by sprkie on Fri, Oct 30, 2009

    Awww She's got a little kid's body and a little pudgey baby belly. Makes me want to feed her cookies and give her bunny slippers.

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  • 15. Posted by r f on Fri, Oct 30, 2009

    while everyone seems to see a kid 'skanking it up', what i see is a kid dressing up like her heros/rolemodels. every person has someone to look up to and that is usually someone they see as confident and powerful. why is it wrong for a kid to dress up as hannah montana or even madonna. everyone sees what they want to see. this issue is not so much about what the person is wearing as it is about what people are seeing in their own eyes. African tribes wear much less and yet it is fine. it is all perception. Stop judging and find out the true nature of the costume instead of placing your own assumptions on it.

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  • 16. Posted by tanman on Sat, Oct 31, 2009

    Lets see now...get real!!!!!!!!!

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  • 17. Posted by Canwood1967 on Sat, Oct 31, 2009

    Where can I get a Paki costume?

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  • 18. Posted by 10 on Sat, Oct 31, 2009

    The posters of comments sound like the idiots that wrote the article - Hopefully the 9 year olds Pop Star has enough money to sue you for lible for calling her 9 year old dressing scankey as in whorish as in your a freakin moron that would stupp (sp?) so low as to insult a 9 year old dressed like a 9 year old on Halloween for views. Talk about your skanks...

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  • 19. Posted by 10 on Sat, Oct 31, 2009

    Looks like a couple a fat skanks wrote the article - if if you believe in doing so or agree - you're probably one too. If yahoo likes to censor so much why don't we hep em by censoring out crap written by skanks like this...

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  • 20. Posted by 10 on Sat, Oct 31, 2009

    Looks like a couple a fat skanks wrote the article - if if you believe in doing so or agree - you're probably one too. If yahoo likes to censor so much why don't we hep em by censoring out crap written by skanks like this...

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  • 21. Posted by Sue on Sat, Oct 31, 2009

    It is a sad world we live in where the clothes you wear dictate what people think and say about you, but that is the way things are and there will be no changing it. Her parents should have understood this before they let her put an outfit like that on and be photographed for the world to see. A 9 year old should not have the word 'skank' attached to her. Sad, sad world.

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  • 22. Posted by 10 on Sat, Oct 31, 2009

    Your right Sue - it is a sad world and those that help perpetuate BS like the above story are the true skank imo. Skank wasn't attached to this 9 year old in cute outfit for Halloween. Two true Skanks attached it to her and worse others feed into the BS and agreed. I wonder if the older skank writer was considered skank when she wore an "I Dream of Jeanie" Halloween costume which is much more revieling than the above - then again you'd have to have a skanking thinking mind to even associate a 9 with the word in a halloween costume to the word skank or whore or slut. Or if the writers kid wore something similiar would she take offense to her child being refered to as being a skank or dressiing like a skank as she did this "Pop Stars" kid on an open and public forum ie NEWS PAPER/Broadcast? Or was the true objective and only reason because it was a "Pop Stars" kid... well writers perhaps if the kids of our American stars are open targets now - your's should be too...? woud you like some of us reporters to photograph your kids and target them publicly? Lower ourselves to your obvious low standards of reporting and skankiness? I doubt it - but - perhaps we should find out for sure first hand. After all, you are now public figures too... This amoung other "news stories" reported here or should we say copied here with out credit to the actual writers. _ which may be the case here as in the past with a changed sentence or two. - either way - they make me livid... "This" type reporting is jsut another form or truer form of pedifilia.. as they attempt to comvince everyone this 9 year old should be viewed in that outfit in a sexual manner. The writers owe this family and the child and the public - a huge public apoligy. Perhaps a little jail time might be worthy as well, yah marketing pedifiles - ie skanks

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  • 23. Posted by 10 on Sat, Oct 31, 2009

    And jsut so nobocy gets it wrong as to what the writers were infering about this little girl in a cute outfit for Halloween. Defintion: Skank - n - 2. Disgusting or vulgar matter; filth. 3. One who is disgustingly foul or filthy and often considered sexually promiscuous. Used especially of a woman or girl. How dare you put this type language insinuating this little girl or any other little girl in a Halloween costume is any part of the above definitons. Man I hope you two get hit with a libel suit on this one. And loose big time.

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  • 24. Posted by efstratia83 on Mon, Nov 02, 2009

    I think that "9" is taking this WAY too literally. First off these bloggers were simply doing their job. They chose a story or scenario out of the media and wrote an opinion on it. People have the right to agree or not. "Sue" had it right in saying that it is sad that we live in a world where people will judge a book by its cover, but that's the reality. So your question about whether or not these writers would like it if their daughter was dressed like that and was being judged does not apply, because the answer to ask first is "Would you allow your 9 year old daughter to be dressed like that in the fist place knowing that even though your daughter may not be a skank herself, people would associate her outfit to be a such?" I think it's safe to say that any sane person, would answer no to that question. At 9 yrs old, clearly this child's parents still have a say in what she can and cannot wear and they, as parents made a poor choice. No little girl should be allowed by her parents to dress like this even if it is halloween. One subtle move and we could probably see her your know what and that is just wrong. Could she have pulled it down seeing that it's hiked up to her butt? Sure. But did she have the maturity to think of doing so? NO! Because SHE'S 9! The outfit is skanky. The child is not. That is what these writers were getting at. The underlying question of this article is, "Is this costume innapropriate for a 9 year old girl?" The answer is YES! Is the outfit skanky for a 9 yr old girl? YES! By parents dressing their daughters like this, we're paving the road for more girls to get out of cars showing their privates, younger girls having sex and getting knocked up and using sex to lure people in, instead of what really counts. We live in a world where we are judged. This is what everyone needs to deal with. Is it right? No. But it is what it is.

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  • 25. Posted by efstratia83 on Mon, Nov 02, 2009

    I think that "9" is taking this WAY too literally. First off these bloggers were simply doing their job. They chose a story or scenario out of the media and wrote an opinion on it. People have the right to agree or not. "Sue" had it right in saying that it is sad that we live in a world where people will judge a book by its cover, but that's the reality. So your question about whether or not these writers would like it if their daughter was dressed like that and was being judged does not apply, because the answer to ask first is "Would you allow your 9 year old daughter to be dressed like that in the fist place knowing that even though your daughter may not be a skank herself, people would associate her outfit to be a such?" I think it's safe to say that any sane person, would answer no to that question. At 9 yrs old, clearly this child's parents still have a say in what she can and cannot wear and they, as parents made a poor choice. No little girl should be allowed by her parents to dress like this even if it is halloween. One subtle move and we could probably see her your know what and that is just wrong. Could she have pulled it down seeing that it's hiked up to her butt? Sure. But did she have the maturity to think of doing so? NO! Because SHE'S 9! The outfit is skanky. The child is not. That is what these writers were getting at. The underlying question of this article is, "Is this costume innapropriate for a 9 year old girl?" The answer is YES! Is the outfit skanky for a 9 yr old girl? YES! By parents dressing their daughters like this, we're paving the road for more girls to get out of cars showing their privates, younger girls having sex and getting knocked up and using sex to lure people in, instead of what really counts. We live in a world where we are judged. This is what everyone needs to deal with. Is it right? No. But it is what it is.

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