This particular post about Halloween
costumes, men vs. women, is called “Skanky-ween.” The above screen shot is a
picture of a body bag costume. We can see that the women’s costume is much more
scandalous compared to the men’s. The blogger who posted this commented, “I don’t want to live on
this planet anymore.” Then from there her friend Victor, who shows up quite
frequently on her blogs, made the comment that if she wanted to leave the
planet, she should dress as an astronaut. This led to this picture being
posted.
This post got 447 comments, which means many other bloggers
had something to say about the “sexy” costumes for females. There seems to be
an over all agreement with the fact that it is ridiculous that almost any
costume there is, can be made for a woman to look sexy. Many of the female
commenters feel that this degrades women and what some men may like to see
women in, is disgusting.
There was one comment that made me
feel obligated to search up what they had said to either prove or disprove
their comment.
So I searched “Sexy Banana Costume”
and this is what came up:
Or this comment:
Which lead to this finding of my
own:
All I can do when I see these
types of costumes is shake my head and laugh because after all the commenting
and debating it isn’t going to go away. It’s a stereotype of ‘a girl’s Halloween.’ I found that most of the
commenters were women. Many of the screen names sounded like real names or
girly pseudonyms. Reading the comments I felt very comfortable, I felt that it
had many women who felt that their sex was being held to a certain standard of
having to be ‘sexy.’ Some of the language and tone some would say is strongly
worded but I think helped get the point across that many women feel frustrated
with this topic. Even if there were outsiders commenting on this post, if they
had a valid point, others would accept them into their ‘community.’ This is a
widely talked about subject that we can see on many sites which many commenters
linked to. One link that I saw was to a video that sums up Women’s Halloween Costumes.
http://www.cracked.com/video_18095_slutty-girls-in-slutty-halloween-costumes-tribute.html.
The use of * facepalm* and * sad head
shaking* sums up how the community feels and quite frankly how I feel about the
subject.
I really loved this post! This time of the year definitely stirs up that bit of anger in me as well. I was just in a halloween costume store trying to think of what I should go as this year, but as I wandered around the store I realized that I wasn't going to find anything because they were all the same! Short, tight and flashy. Not something I wanted to wear... So I'm making my own costume!
ReplyDeleteTchh, now... as a guy, its difficult to complain about a topic like this, but I can totally understand why people are upset, because its really short sighted. These costumes seem to be attention grabbers. Do you remember Halloween as a kid? I thought it was almost magical putting on a costume, and becoming something different for a night. Although all the costumes I put together were pretty bad, it was about having fun, getting candy, hanging with friends, ect. When you get older, its completely different. Have you ever walked, or driven by a "Halloween city" store? On the front window display, there is always a woman (dressed as a slutty cop, no less) with a sassy look on her face, and a caption that says: "Turn heads!". Just an attention fest. I'll take what Halloween used to be about, thanks.
ReplyDeleteThis is an awesome post. You get women going on their saying that this is ridiculous and everything else but at the end of the day, girls are still going out there and buying these "slutty" costumes so obviously it doesn't effect them that much
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