Mea Culpa. I have shown a small amount of boobage once or twice in my life when dressing up for Halloween. Hey, I was young, my boobs are something to be proud of, so I had no qualms of taking them out for a stroll. I thought sexy was cool, in a fun way. Age has come knocking on my door, generations are changing and now what I considered sexy is just plain boring. Now, female Halloween costumes have taken a turn to the... skanky?
Now it's slut time. The more slutty you can dress up, the better. How times have changed, Jesus H. Christ. What happened? Did Halloween suddenly gave licence for one day to get "sluttified"? And I'm not meaning showing a quarter of a boob, people. I've seen women go almost completely naked to events. Just put some body paint on, sister and you are ready to go. Get your groove on almost naked.
I get sort of pissed about this because while I was trick or treating the other night in a small neighborhood filled with kids, there was this group walking by. In it there was this 12 year old with a dress that, if I was her mom, she would have gotten grounded. Really short skirt, high heels. A sort of sexy witch, as I can remember. What shocked me was the fact that if that is how her mom dressed her up to go play with the kids, I can only fathom what she will go out looking like when she's 16. At 21... yep, she'll just go out fully naked, I supposed.
Let me get this straight. There is nothing wrong with having great self esteem that you dress up in a sexy kind of way. If you have the power, then by all means show what your momma gave you. But there's a difference in being sexy and looking like a slut. Like you will actually charge people for any sort of favor. So now the question is... do men fall for that shit? Do you guys see a slutathon in your Halloween party and do you think... yeah, it's my night to get some easy poonany?
Why does this bother me? Why am I being so old fashioned? Dammit because females still get shafted (pun intended) with a lot of prejudice. To this day. No, I'm not exaggerating one bit. At this day and age, I still can walk through a construction site and get awful things said out loud at me. I can still be driving and have some sexual deviant do some nasty hand gesture. At all my years working at an ad agency and giving more than a decade of work, I still earned less than my male counterparts. I still get male clients who refuse to hear my ideas and instead listens to my partner because he's just has a dick.
So when females go and demean themselves in a party to the point of taking a fun idea like looking cool and sexy to the point where it is completely sexual... and easy... you are then validating all that is still happening. And yes, there are PLENTY of more places where this happens. At Lollapalooza this year I saw thousands of women who looked like sluts... and were treated that way. Young 21 year olds so drunk and passed out that they didn't notice how stupid and sad they looked. And yes, they were almost naked as well. Body paint is not clothing! Pasties are not a shirt! Bikini bottoms are not pants!
So there it is. I guess times, they are a-changing. Anyway, hope you had a great Halloween. I sure did!
1 comments:
To be hones,t the sluttiness was subpar on my facebook this year. Being honest, Halloween is the time of the year when most of my guy friends look FORWARDS to Facebook because they can get all their kinky visual fetishes satisfied.
Like it or not, men shall always be extremely visual and in a contest between men and women, there's no contest.
So is it cool to dress like a skank? Well I think the gosh darnit answer is sometimes. The thing is that I too did see 12-14 year old girls wearing things I would rather see on a 21+ year old. I'm not saying they don't have the right more than I'm saying people will see, people will think, and men will attempt.
I can't say it's been this year because I have honestly seen this trend in effect the last couple of years, but I can say that the age gaps are going lower... and that is worrisome. Seeing 17 year olds do that isn't cool, but it isn't as bad as a 14 or 12 year old, which I did see.
As for looking like a slut, men won't complain. We LOVE the show regardless of what most guys say for the reason I mentioned above, we're visual. VERY visual. There's also the detail about the equation of male to female of what it is to look appealing. If a good looking gal thinks she kind of looks skanky, a guy has a chubby.
Then there's one other thing... guys want girls to look slutty but when a woman in all her right pulls away because she's grossed out, THAT'S when shit hits the fan and they get called sluts and violence can and has happened.
So wanna show some tit. Be my guest... but don't expect to be without an audience.
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