First off, let me just say that I love halloween. I love the theatrics and getting to dress up in costumes and candy and the decorations. I love it.But it points out something that I hate. Now that I'm a grown-up, all the costumes for girls are sexy. I want to be a ninja turtle and they only have sexy ninja turtles. I want to be a Hogwarts student, there's only a cleavage/midriff baring witch who studies wand-handling. Why do we feel the need to present ourselves as sexual playthings and parade around? I can't say that I blame men solely, because I see plenty of girls who are more than willing to put little leaf-shaped pasties on their boobs and pretend to be a bible character. Yeah, I wouldpost a picture, but I'm not going to expose you to that. I feel I explained it well enough.
Women are seen as only having value for our sexuality. I had this whole eloquent rant in my head, but alas, I can't remember it verbatim. It was really great too. The main thing was that maybe I want to wear lederhosen that aren't sexy lederhosen but just regular lederhosen. Why can't I just bea panda without having half of my boobs visible? I'm scrolling through a costume site right now... let's see, there is Sexy Straight-Jacket costume, Sexy Chinese Take-Out Container costume, Sexy Willy Wonka, Sexy clownfish... what?
Women have to make an effort to find a Halloween costume that isn't skanky. Britta Perry from NBC's Community is known for her feminism and continually avoids sexy halloween costumes. Here she is in a squirrel costume.
Yeah, it seems like every year, there's always some kind of girl costume modified to look "sexy." It's like those who made them are trying to say to women "that's what you should go for." It's obnoxious.
ReplyDeleteAnd even if it wasn't verbatim, that was a good rant you posted.
And here I was going to go as Jessica Rabbit.
ReplyDeleteThis... so hard, it totally makes me think of Mean Girls.
ReplyDeleteI'm a mouse! Duh.