Some mommy blog has set their sights on 826 Valencia, the non-profit writing center and pirate supply store:

Would you let your kid dress up and play rapist? Murderer? Kidnapper? Armed robber? If they're a pirate fan, chances are you already do. And unlike, say, an outlaw cowboy (is there a kid on earth who's still into cowboys?), a pirate is not a rogue version of someone with a decent job. Rape and plunder is the very reason for their existence.

I've been one of the biggest fans of the pirate revival of the last decade. Loved Johnny Depp in the first Pirates of the Caribbean. I think the pirate supply store at 826 Valencia in San Francisco appeals to both kid and hipster parent like nowhere else. And it's cute that something so 1950s as pirates has seen a resurgence. A kid with an eye patch is so quaint — it's like seeing a kid in a coonskin cap.

The post then brings up modern day Somali pirates, asking “is this really a line of work we should be celebrating?”

What if you dressed your kid as a modern-day Somali pirate? With machine gun, hostage, bandanna … Seems pretty twisted, right? It would never happen. Well, just wait a few hundred years, it'll be fine.

Twisted, indeed!

Be sure to read the whole thing for additional comparisons to outfitting your kids in Nazis regalia, Al Qaeda-chic, and Darth Vader, the “genocidal maniac's” uniform.  [photo by Eli the Bearded]