It's That Time of Year

When pumpkins are carved, costumes are crafted (or bought) and candy corn is everywhere!

'I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs.'
~ Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief

I LIKE this idea!

For the women who, on this singular day of the year, unfurl and fly their sexy freak flag high and proud, dressing up every day could be....emmm...problematic.

On just this one day they feel guilt-free in dressing up as porn flix nurses, nuns, cops, carrots (!), crayons (!!), Ronald McDonalds (!!!), goldfish and such. I don’t generally get it. Is it that, on every other day of the year, these women feel so solidly oppressed, boxed into the virginal good girl role? This is the one, the only time, they can safely embrace their sexalicious nature so they go mondo overboard?

OR is it that the costume companies are all owned by men who can only get stiffies while watching Debbie Does Dallas and the like?

Fer instance, there’s the utterly tone deaf, divorced from reality and human understanding owners of Yandy’s.

Because sexy cat, sexy nurse and sexy schoolgirl weren’t enough, now there is, or shall we say “was,” a sexy costume that riffs off the victims of sexual slavery and oppression at the center of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.” 

We now pause for you to reflect on what it took to come up with that idea in the first place. (source)

 Dangermaus asked on her Twitter page:

Does nobody think sexy versions of a ritual rape outfit might not, possibly, be just a wee bit totally fucking wrong on every level.  

HELLO MUTHAFUCKAS, nice try at subverting our protests, you disgusting shitstains!

That sexy Handmaids’ Tale outfit sells for a whopping $64.95. Well, it used to. They ixnayed the offering after a tremendous backlash. Smart but too little too late. Yandy's doesn't just sell patriarchal, horseshit, sexual slavery costumes – they also sell scanties. Thanks, I'll buy mine elsewhere.

Ya know, I really do understand wanting to be all sexpottish one day a year. It’s fun, there’s an air of safe-danger about it AND, odds are, yur gonna have some bodaciously awesome post-party sexy time. Cool, no? Why limit that to one day outta the year?

For BIG starters, there’s the Republican government’s attitude —women are to blame for everything but especially their own rape. That makes this…emmmmm…problematic. Also too, Preznint Tiny Todger has given the official sexual assault stamp of approval to his socially imbecilic, utterly dimbulbed and empathy challenged, fecal brained followers.

Plus, there’s really not any popular, equivalent male costumes outside of Hunk-O-Mania. Oh yeah and, in real life, most humans aren’t built like models and strippers. Do you honestly want to see your beer bellied supe dressed up as a sexy gladiator?

Now then, what costume would I wear? Today I'd kit myself out as a paint splattered gym rat (sweats and baggy T, thenkyewveddy much) because, that's just what I'll be. Desperately unimaginative you say? Fine, I'll be a delicious but not necessarily sexy cannoli. Happy now?!