October = Halloween edition Anitabot!
Yup, look above – the halloween edition anitabot icon is ready! meow! I can’t believe it’s October already! To deal with this I am gearing myself up for the best month of the year! yarr!
Facebook’s pirate language is a bit of a challenge to read through, but I feel it’s my duty as a devout pastafarian to use it. Faith shouldn’t be easy, but it definitely is worth it.
aye matey!
Also, I want this:
Why is it only in sizes medium ++++?? Can’t little girls be storm troopers as well? PUH LEAZE?!
Also, in my quest for a Halloween costume I must raise the question: WHY ARE ALL WOMEN’S COSTUMES SEXIFIED?
Think of a career, ethnicity* or a character, then sexify it a notch. Voila! You’ve just designed a women’s halloween costume. It’s kind of lame.
Even unsexy careers get the sexy treatment. Well, I’d like to see you try and make a sexy Predator costume. or a sexy Alien costume. Eh? Try that! It’s impossible! Or what about a sexy Child Welfare Services worker? Now that’s just wrong, but I’m sure someone will attempt to sexify it. Sexy MTO (dmv) worker? no. Not sexy at all. Sexy Septic tank cleaner? Sexy sexy-costume seamstress?
* And the Ethnicity! HOW the hell is that… a costume? How is dressing up as a different race/culture a ‘costume’? This racist woman I know suggested I wear a sari and dress up as an Indian for Halloween. umm… news for ya: I’m an Indian every day of my life! (sure I don’t wear the sari, but that actually isn’t the whole part of being Indian! whoa!).
My least favourite of these is the “Indian princess”(Indian as in Aboriginal and not as in from south asia). I really don’t want to see some person dress up as an outdated stereotype of a culture that our government has and continues to keep on the sidelines. Am I the only one who’s super-offended by this?
3 Comments to October = Halloween edition Anitabot!
When I was little I had a bit of an “Indian princess” get up, but not for Hallowe’en. There’s a “trading post” (aka over-priced northern Ontario souvenirs) on the way up to my camp and I was super excited to get a feathered headdress and leather ankle bells to run around in. I guess I just really liked the traditions (or perceived traditions) of the culture. But I was 8!
I haven’t seen first hand a lot of girls dressed like that here for Hallowe’en…but in the states it seems way more popular, but then they’re a lot more clueless about tact when it comes to aboriginals, so….
MentatOctober 2, 2008
Here’s a larger question: why do women unnecessarily sexify themselves? A woman working in a typical office, lets’ say–why does she wear lipstick, perfume, high heels? You cannot deny that these items are for the purpose of sexification. You may argue that there is societal pressure; I’ll grant this but it doesn’t explain it away entirely. Apparently women want to appear sexy… but they don’t want others to want them to appear sexy. Or something like that.
@Mentat – I am not against women sexifying themselves, or having sexy costumes – I am wondering WHY that is the PREDOMINANT choice for costumes. And all careers have to be turned into sexy ones. Like Firefighters, and Nurses. Why can’t we just be regular ones (we can, but the highest percentage of costumes are sexified versions).
Sure, women have come along way but we’re still taken more seriously when we’re sexy parodies of real people (according to Halloween costumes).
I have nothing against women who want to wear these costumes, but it lives little choice for those of us who want that TYPE of costume (lets say an astronaut) but DON’T want the sexy version. we want the regular one 
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October 2, 2008