Britain Embraces Halloween and Cashes In on Ghoulish Celebration

[MADem]

9. My comments in disapproval were about the "mock rapes" -- which I thought were horrific.

That's what I was referencing.

How nice that the adults in your life partied, decorated, and dressed up, but that's not where I was going when I made those comments. And if you want to dress up and run around with your children, go to town.

No one is stopping you, and not everyone has to like what you like. You don't have to turn around and get nasty, and call me 'tisky tisky' and 'boring.' It's a big wide world, full of opinions, ya know.

Also, I can't help but notice that the "adults" in your collection of photographs predate the 1940s. The latter photos in that grouping are all of children, to include the occasional teens. That was the paradigm in USA for many, many years, that Halloween was a child's holiday.

I can't help but notice, though, that the holiday these days is as much--if not MORE-- about childless, drunken adults in all manner of outrageous or "sexy" costume as it is about little kids getting a bit of candy. It's a different emphasis than in years past.