Pimp Your Baby
Saturday, September 6, 2008 
If you've been looking for that perfect costume for your baby's first Halloween, look no further! For only $29.99, you can buy the Infany baby pimp costume, replete with money print suit pants and jacket and black and gold pimp hat. The item description reads thusly:
Our Baby Pimp Costume is too cute for words. This super fly baby costume is great for babies first Halloween photos. For a fun family costume idea consider any of our Pimp Costumes for any age.
Not only can you pimpify your little bundle of joy, but you can also get the whole family in on the pimp action, because if there's one thing we North Americans like, it's pimps. The pimp has become a cultural icon to which we have attached a great sense of kitsch, and what better way to express our love of kitsch and pimps than to dress up our babies in tasteless clothing in order to give them the look of violent rapists who entice women into sexual slavery and rent out their most intimate body parts for money to strangers who, aside from the pay-for-rapes, will very likely further physically and psychologically torture them.
That's fun, right? And cute! Especially for babies, because they're too little to be purveyors of rape! I mean, your sons and daughters are being raised in a patriarchal culture rife with rape apologizers anyway, so why not teach them the ropes as early as possible?
photo courtesy of nicora
Reader Comments (22)
thanks for posting this. and thank christ someone else is angry about the ubiquitous use of the 'pimp my/your... ' phrase as some kind of positive thing. so very sickening.
Excellent post. Last year, I saw a bride costume for little girl, that was sold along with a bride costume for pets. Apparently to encourage trans-species lesbian weddings.
That's just so wrong. Last year at work our corporate slogan was "pimp yo' internet" or something like that and I was so freaking offended. They were actually handing out do-rags and "grillz" as part of the marketing scheme. Uh... are you kidding me? Someone actually thought that was a good idea?
I love the picture of the cat! And I wonder if they think putting a really cute baby, that's obviously too little to walk, it the pimp costume will make it sell better in Suburbia?
I saw these last year and was disgusted...
Guess people are kinda stupid, no?
My 6-year-old boy was intrigued by the "Mac Daddy" costume at Party City yesterday. I guess this balances out the beer wench and naughty nurse costumes my 8-year-old girl wants for her mom.
Ugh. It's bad enough when people my own age want to joke about "pimps n hos." Now we want children to get into the act?? Never, never, never.
WOw pimp outfit, really? Pimp is way out of fashion so hopefully it won't be around much any longer.
The cat picture? I kind of want to frame that and hang it over my bed.
Our society is so fucked.
Standing to clap.
c'mon.. where's the baby ho costume for the little girls??
Sick.
I was thinking with the three girls I could do 1) ho, 2) ho on crack, and 3) homeless ho on crack (would have a cardboard box). And my nephew could be the pimp!
Hmmm. It doesn't sound quite as cute when I see it in writing.
Get a grip people! Where is your sense of humor?
Seriously, I don't think anyone thinks this has anything to do with sex, hookers, or rape. I don't think pimps really dress like this, do you? It's a term to decribe tasteless polyester suits and hats, which I might point out, which are not actually worn by crack pushing, women raping jerks. "Big pimpin'" has nothing to do with hookers. Realize that words and their connotations evolve over time. Let go and laugh a little.
BTW, I'm a feminist. A modern one with a sense of humor. Geez.
That is SO WRONG.
This is along the lines of the people who dress their 6, 7, and 8-yr olds in less clothing than I wear to the beach, and say "oh no, we're not sexualizing our kids! That's YOU, with your nasty nasty minds!" Sorry, my little delusional friends, you can deny it all you want, but a pimp is one thing - a person who sells women (and sometimes men). I don't care if the term has "expanded" to include making a car/house/whatever "fancier"; a pimp is a pimp is a pimp. Oh, and it really doesn't matter if "pimps don't really dress like this anyway" (I thought that was hysterical); we ALL know what the costume is supposed to look like, and we ALL know what it represents.
Denying it doesn't make it less so.
The cat picture is KILLING ME WITH THE AWESOME.
uh....pray tell how exactly a pimp, defined as "
noun
1.
a person, esp. a man, who solicits customers for a prostitute or a brothel, usually in return for a share of the earnings; pander; procurer.
2.
a despicable person.
(dictionary.com provided this for us modern feminists with actual senses of humour)
is NOT something to do with hookers or sex.
Please, turn in your vagina. It's making mine stabby.
GEEZ, can't you feminists take a joke?
No, some of us don't think power imbalances and sexual exploitation is funny. Your privilege is showing.
Umm, next to that definition is there a man in a polyester suit? It's more of a period costume than anything else. If I call it "kid in an ugly polyester suit" is it okay THEN? Or are you opposed to kids in polyester in general? If I dress my kid as a monster does that mean I support terrorizing children's dreams? Or as a cowboy that I support guns or killing Native Americans? Btw, I am not privileged by any means, am a major supporter of women worldwide and have helped protect women from trafficking with CARE. And I'm keeping my vagina - it's not yours to tell me what to do with it. What are you, some kind of pimp?
I have a "friend" (actually a friend's baby's mother) who dressed her toddler daughter in one of those gimmick oldentimey western prostitute outfits with the feather boa and camisole at the oldentimey photo shops at the jersey shore. she had her all dressed up like that, and holding a bottle of whiskey.
and then sent that out as her christmas card a couple of years ago.
disgusting