All posts tagged "Halloween Costumes"

It's hard to bother responding to professional concern troll Charlotte Allen's "concern" that women are raping themselves with their slutty Halloween costumes. Allen deliberately misunderstands what Slutwalk is about, and basically claims that the only reason men rape is because they're uncontrollable animals who are easily provoked by a little skin into violent assault. I'm sure Allen would be thrilled to know the fundamentalist Muslims who make life hard for women in places like Iran and Saudi Arabia fully agree with her that women rape themselves by showing bare skin; the only thing they're quibbling aobut is when a man's ability to control himself flies out the window. Is it when he sees a strand of hair, a flash of ankle, or a bit of thigh? Misogynsts worldwide love to entertain themselves drawing these arbitrary lines of when they can safely say the lady done raped herself with her sluttiness. 

Based on their Halloween costumes from last year, it would not be surprising if employees from foreclosure firm giant Steven J. Baum dressed up this year as homeowners who've lost their property thanks to firms like them.

Today has been kind of a crazy day---and I expect it will be that way all the way until the election---so I thought I'd toss out a more fun post for those two things that go together like peanut butter and chocolate, or lube and condoms: Halloween in election years and political costumes. Putting together a costume that's basically a political joke is not only a way to relieve some election season tension, it's also a great way to dodge the "wear your underwear and some cat ears" costume pressure for women. If done properly, a funny political costume can be a subtle, non-annoying, totally fun way to remind people to vote the next week. In 2008, I did what all brunettes with bangs pretty much had to do, and went as Sarah Palin. It was so much fun we ended up doing a comedy short video that exploited my costume and a friend's GI Joe-inspired costume.