For the past decade at least, we’ve had this annual Halloween tradition where, for instance, a site like the Huffington Post will display those over sexy costumes, which will be the most viewed page for the moment. \u00c2\u00a0And the question — outraged or titillated — be sure to study each image and \u00c2\u00a0decide for yourself.<\/p>\n
You traverse from there to the appropriateness of the “sexy inanimate object” — there’s a sexy pizza costume out there, as the Daily Show mentioned. \u00c2\u00a0To which I end up thinking — oh, why not? \u00c2\u00a0Since we’ve traveled into this realm, we may as well add this surrealistic flair to this. \u00c2\u00a0Better that than the appropriation of “sexy Indian woman”. \u00c2\u00a0(Here we get some side-wind from “the right”, complaining to a college that they’re taking the “fun” out of Halloween for sending a letter suggesting students shouldn’t do this one<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0— curious as they’d be some of the ones who’d be pooh-poohing a hyper- sexualized culture, if not the sexism track.)<\/p>\n Okay. \u00c2\u00a0All this aside. \u00c2\u00a0I was watching a parade of Halloween revelers this last weekend. \u00c2\u00a0Twenty something year old club goer types, I suppose. \u00c2\u00a0And there were those “skanky” costumes. \u00c2\u00a0What puzzled me about some of them was… for the life of me I couldn’t tell what some of them were. \u00c2\u00a0It was like… a tight fitting shirt and short shorts. \u00c2\u00a0Which in most other settings I might figure was maybe de norm — except these outfits were clearly costumes — made of a polyster fabric type not normally worn, and not what is worn in any even the circumstance described. \u00c2\u00a0In tow with a man wearing a Monsters (as in the series of Monsters movies) — green one eyed kooky bulging shirt — I’m thinking … I guess that’s a sexy sailor girl — maybe? \u00c2\u00a0I … think the color scheme is right with that… maybe?<\/p>\n And here my problem with the “sexy Halloween costumes” becomes one where … Now I just want to be able to identify what the costume is a sexy version of. \u00c2\u00a0But this may mark a full turn. \u00c2\u00a0From “Sexy thing that makes some sense to make sexy” to “sexy thing that makes no sense to make sexy” to just “sexy”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the past decade at least, we’ve had this annual Halloween tradition where, for instance, a site like the Huffington Post will display those over sexy costumes, which will be the most viewed page for the moment. \u00c2\u00a0And the question — outraged or titillated — be sure to study each image and \u00c2\u00a0decide for yourself. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13421,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13418\/revisions\/13421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}