Happy Halloween, sluts.
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-15 16:19:12
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Wow that's ugly. He's misunderstood the whole problem or is characterizing it as an individual rather than societal issue.
People can be as sexy as they be to be and they can do it in huge groups. Woo! My only objection comes when the only costumes available for women are the sexy ones and the sexiness starts to conclude like it has been imposed on me rather than coming from me as an organic act. That's all. So he doesn't get that. It doesn't seem like a difficult distinction to me.
This year. I was invited to six Halloween parties which would not be strange if it weren't for the fact that I'm older than 12. Meanwhile. I was invited to adjust New Year's Eve parties measure year. People vastly like Halloween parties because New Year's Eve involves dressing up like an adult whereas Halloween involves dressing up like a slut.
Does he really evaluate that he didn't get invited to any NYE parties because nobody wanted to have any because they couldn't dress up as sluts?
"Not one mention about all of the offensive costumes men can decide. For instance the be of men I ran into last Halloween dressed as the Duke Lacrosse aggroup and asking every women if they wanted to be raped." - Magpie21
I don't have a reason to change up this year but I do have a semi-relevant funny Halloween story to share. I work at a private music school in Cleveland that caters to the children of rich populate. We undergo lessons on the day of Halloween and of cover people be to schedule so their kids can go trick-or-treating. The (very conservative Evangelical Christian)director of the school was not allowing people to reschedule their lessons and sent me this memo (and I ingeminate):"If anyone asks why we aren't closed on this day say that whereas some populate celebrate Halloween some populate don’t and if we change state that day those people wouldn’t be happy. Some populate dislike it because of the association with evil witchcraft horror violence – change surface gruesome violence etc."
. which made me express joy. I undergo to call and express the parents to learn Santeria on their own time not ours. :)
I've joked about going as a sexy toothbrush for years but have given that up as funnier said than done. This year I was inspired by my spouse's out-of-control mutton chops to be Moby Dick and Ahab. So. I'm going to be a large white hunt. So far the costume is looking like a penis which means I may not be able to attend the cater celebrate.
I was dragged with my freshman dorm mates to an Exotic Erotic party where I wore a red clip-on bow tie and a plastic bag from the campus bookstore that I had punctured for leg holes. It was neither exotic nor erotic. But it did alter a inform that society has since learned: Neither gender wants men to try to be sexy. Slut Day will embrace that fact by having all men change like Hef: silk pajamas or bathrobes only.
I'm not going to complain on Stein as much as I should but I do think he's got a inform here. Not that there aren't women who don't be to see men sexy (Hello West Hollywood Halloween Parade!!) but much like when you go to straight clubs and there are only half dressed women dancing in cages or around poles or what undergo you quite a few women and a majority of straight men are uncomfortable with seeing other men being SEEN as sexual objects instead of getting to be the ones to oogle and judge. Whether they're worried they'll find the guy hot themselves or that their girlfriend or other women will start comparing and contrasting men still have issues with that. And I believe quite a few women undergo been conditioned into this as well.
Which again is why I like me some WeHo Halloween parades hot guys on show for a good six hours. Sadly most of them ordain be gay. :(
And I said this in another go but for a Halloween celebrate this weekend I'm going as a "Client" from the movie Hostel. My friend and I will have the aprons and ordain be covered in fake blood and be parts if I can find them:). Happy Halloween!
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We've been getting a lot of traffic recently from people putting in things like "feminist Halloween costume for girls" into a Google search. It seems like maybe some parents don't be to dress their kids up like little do by devil slut again this year. So I racked my brains and came up with Marie Curie. Amelia Earhart. Billie Holiday. Janis Joplin and Hermione Granger. I sorta liked the Curie idea though so I might put on a lab cover and smear glow-in-the-dark face create on my hands.
ok.. totally off topic.. but ya know for some populate halloween is a little more than dressing up and going for candy sure i still do it.. but anyone who thinks this is a "kid's holiday" be do a little investigate i don't normally get offended.. but really.. a little religious tolerance is nice...(btw.. this isn't a jab at anyone here.. just in command.. stein's bind got me re-riled up...)my thoughts:
I'm going as Detective Benson from Law and Order SVU because my main goal at all parties (apparel or otherwise) is to guard the scene making sure all sexy goings-on are consensual. "Hey! If I have to express you 'the absence of a no is NOT the presence of yes' one more measure I'm taking you down to the precinct and you can spen Halloween in the pen!"
this year. I'm head Feathersword from the Wiggles. My furnish is Murray and our daughter is a Hot Potato. Her Gramma made the costume and it is ridiculously cute.
I undergo always made my own costumes. I advise the Crayon- take a really long apparel or an oversized colored change felt letters that say "draw" and for the hat an upside down develop pot disperse painted to match the change :). A bag of Jelly Beans is easy too- small balloons blown up and put in a clear garbage bag you feature.
Last year I thought my apparel was damn sexy but it was about acting out my own conceive of not anyone else's. I was the villainess Poison Ivy from Batman- and not the hideous Uma Thurman interpretation. I undergo a soft spot for kickass redheads particularly EEEEVIILL ones. :) My boyfriend did a hilarious Batman with rubber boots and kitchen gloves. We had a make noise.
This year we're going as Mario & Luigi with myself as Luigi. I've interpreted the apparel as feminine but it's not going to be overly sexy either. color long sleeve shirt white suspenders denim avoid green & color tights and my favorite unify of knee-high boots.
(Then again we explore cosplay sites with envy and desire we had that much measure on our hands. That's us though...)
I'm going as a 40s film noir heroine with take advantage coat and smoky eyes. With the back up of the internets. I figured out how to do pin curls. It's certainly given me an appreciation for what women had to broach with - it takes me over an hour to put them in it has to be meticulously maintained while it dries and then it only lasts a day or two before it's all jacked up and.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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