Halloween Costumes

I just had to write about this. I've seen several news stories this year about halloween costumes for little girls and teen girls becoming "too sexy." I'm dumbfounded at the absolute stupidity, yes stupidity of people who make costumes for this age group. Now, I don't agree with grown women wearing these costumes out in public either but right now, I'll just talk about young girls. There is so much wrong with this that I don't know where to begin. People wonder why we have so many sex offenders, child predators, rape, & child pornography. Duh! Because this kind of mess continues to go on. No wonder some grown men are attracted to little girls b/c they are not even allowed anymore to be "little girls." Women now are suppose to look like girls and girls are suppose to look like women which means there's a hard distinction between what is a child and what is a grown-up. It's also going to put in young girls minds that they are always trying to impress men and that if they wear a certain thing, no matter the age of the man, he will think she's cute thus resulting in the possibility of dire consequences, i.e.,rape.

I know that this is an issue that I'm sure God is very, very sad about. God did not create women to be mere sex objects, but women are created in the image of God. Is this what the image of God looks like? Women are called to a higher calling than this and I wish that all women, & men for that matter, everywhere could take a stand against mess like this. In the meantime, I guess the only thing we can do is to pray. It's as simple as that, pray.