Ah, the joys of Halloween. Free candy, an excuse to escape yourself for a day, and jack-o-lanterns. What can be bad about that?
Highlighting the phenomenon of revealing and inappropriate Halloween costume options for women is a bit hackneyed, yet I am shocked by how these costumes have almost completely saturated the market and have begun targeting young girls. If you haven't taken a stroll through the kids section of the costume aisle recently, I encourage you to do so. The costumes aren't shocking (women are, after all, objectified and sexualized starting at birth) so much as disturbing. Does this trend show any sign of fading?
I always like to reverse things: sexy dracula, sexy superhero, sexy ninja... of course, these things would end up being women's (and girls) costumes. Or perhaps, all men's costumes are just sexy? Either way sexy for men and sexy for women mean very different things particularly concerning power dynamics.
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