"The freedom to dress like a stripper completely independently of any patriachial"

Patriarchal societies are quite the opposite, they force women to dress in the unsexiest clothing imaginable. Burka? That ugly shit Orthodox Jews wear? Super duper Christians? They never look good because those kind of societies hate the idea of women having any kind of sexuality and the view it as an aafront to decency. So feminists share that desire?

By the way fashion is ruled by fags and bitches, straight men and lesbians are the minority in the field. Isn't that what you want anyways? A field ruled by effeminate homosexuals and women?

The dissonance in these sorts of screeds is kinda... amusing, I guess...
I suppose it's not too much to dress for your audience, right?
Q? Is anyone at the party going to recognize the first feminist? Cuz if it's not that crowd, that's kinda like dressing like Darwin, or Livinston. OTOH, if everyone's drunk it prolly wont matter.

I guess, be a sexy whatever if you wanna get laid, and something obscure and offputting if you don't. I know, cross dress as Abe Lincoln... That's sure to get you props for style, and absolutely no attention elsewise.

On the other, other hand? Eventually you'll get to an age where all your friends are planning kid parties, or are too exhausted for halloween, and the 'problem' resolves itself.

And then you might wish you had some place to be, and were hot enough that you still got hit on.

Oh, and? To attract real attention dress as a StarTrek Original Yeoman... miniskrts and go-go boots, but no skin. You'll have to beat 'em back with a stick.

So, two years ago a freind slut shamed her, but now that she is doing the exact same thing she refuses to see it a slut shaming?

Its the flagrent hypocracy like this which is why people dont like feminists

I don't care for non-monsterous Halloween costumes, myself. It doesn't matter to me if you're slutty or not, but bring on the gore and horror!

Cops, Princesses, Crayons, Politicians... meh.

"I'm the ghost of Mary Wollstonecraft."

Sure. Everybody wants to learn obscure civil activist history on a holiday.

"Whatever. Here's a pretzel. Next!"

Amy said it best in her title:  How To Suck All The Fun Out Of Life.  A return to middle age or Victorian age puritanism: veils, habits, hijabs, baggy, sexless fashions.   "Modern" feminism meets religious right.  Ture convergence.  Drain gender roles, gender appearance, and gender behavior out of society.  No wonder women complain there are no more men out there.  They've all been feminized.  And men complain the women are cold bitches.  What woman wants a wimp for a man?   So nobody's happy.  At least nobody who follows the dictats of modern popular culture, as dipicted on much of TV, movies, and "modern" feminism.   Deny your gender, deny your biology, at your peril.   So sad.   Wanna be happy?  Celebrate your gender.  Celebrate your biology.   Men be men.  Women be women.   Do what feels right.  Do what's fun.  Do what attracts the opposite gender.  And watch the sparks fly.  If the feminists don't like it?  Fuck em.  You've got your own life to live.   Your own happiness at stake.   If some women truly don't like men?  Fine.  That's their choice.  If some men truly don't like women?  That's their choice, too.   Celebrate diversity.   The point is to know who you are and follow your own inner guide.  That way lies happiness. Not the dictats of the boob tube, "modern" feminism, or religious right.  That way lies suffocation.

That's "True convergence".

She's back from beyond the grave and she's vindicating her rights, bitch. Going to a Halloween party as the first ever feminist may sound a little obscure, but everyone apart from those in the know will just think you're an old fashioned ghost. This means that you'll have to say the words "I'm the ghost of Mary Wollstonecraft" at least 286 times, but you'll also look really clever and not at all pretentious ...

Oh, sure, if you insist. You're really clever, yes indeed. And no, not at all pretentious. Where's the beer?

Nothing says 'modern feminism' like a woman telling other women what to wear!

Ana: "Nothing says 'modern feminism' like a woman telling other women what to wear!"

Yep, far too many (or is it most?) women who self-label as "feminist" seem to miss the whole point of feminism - be yourself!

P.S. Amy, I do think the author is trying to be funny, But, you're right in that it doesn't quite work.

Right on, Ana.  The women in that video are approval-seeking tools of today's "feminist" establishment; mindless bots spewing the approved party line. Those who swallow the party line are, as Amy would say, lost in the weeds, willing to sacrifice their own fun and happiness on the alter of others' political ambitions.  

I've been lamenting the commercial costumes for a few years. I don't want (or need) to see all the neighborhood girls (ages 2-10) dressed as "sexy cheerleader."

As for adults, I have no problem with the "sexy" costumes, but wish there was more of an emphasis on creativity and just... dressing up.

I don't mind sexy as part of it, but I dislike it being ALL of it (of course, I'm happily married w/kids, so I'm not exactly man-shopping). Of course, I never considered Halloween a major date-night either.

Thankfully, the "sexy Minnie Mouse" costume doesn't go down into toddler sizes

I was at the costume store the other day, and I could find NOTHING that wasn't "sexy _____". Not even for my daughters, and they're 8. It's pathetic.

If some people want to dress slutty, more power to them. I did prekids too. But most moms don't want to take their kids trick or treating dressed up as a whorehouse on parade. You'd think someone would want to fill that market.

Kudos to the responsible parents who posted regarding kids' costumes. The pathetic thing about that video, if it wasn't purely a joke, is that it was directed to adult women. Apparently, modern "feminists" think of their fellow women as irresponsible children who must be lectured how to dress. Sad.

Halloween is my favorite holiday, and as a witch, also the most "sacred". Thinning of the veils between the worlds, an' all that. Ancestors lurking, dumb suppers, super-duper high falutin' rituals, I love it ALL. And I love dressing up. Sexy pirate is one of my faves! This year, though, as in the past, I'm wearing my long black sexy (as in corseted with ample boobage, and thigh high slits on either side) dress, with my black pointy with the silver spiders and spider webs on it (one of 4 black pointy hats that I own, each one for a different occassion, mind you!), my knee-high black boots (yes, with spike heels), and a white lab coat, with a stethescope around my neck.

Yes, I'm dressing up as a sexy witch doctor.

Next?!

o.O

you go, Flynne!

What I love is that, through the miracle of Google advertising, as I was reading the sexy-costume-hater's rants, I spotted, just to the side of the screen, ads for "sexy" halloween costumes, including: sexy watermelon; sexy peacock; and sexy banana. So, Karma being what it is, she may have helped sell that which she denounced.

Anyway, that chick is SO not invited to our Halloween Party -- if we were having one.

Now that I think about it I dont think feminists suck anything

So modern feminism's face is a PSA announcement masquerading as a music video telling other females what to wear. Got it.

First, this.

Second, I refer you to the last sentence of the first excerpted passage in Amy's blog post, which I will now reproduce for you in its entirety:

Classy.

That's so teenage. She thinks we all want to be her friends, so her sarcasm needs no supporting tone or context at all...

Americans are stupid in some fundamental ways. But even two hundred and X-ty-dum years later, I still have these moments where I can clearly imagine the forefathers saying "Jeesuz, I have gotta get away from these goofwads...."

I got off of work crazy-late last night, encountered about a hundred partying young people on the way home (stopping for food and seeing them on the street). Most of the women were pretty much naked.

They were having FUN. You could look at them and know that they were getting this fun out of the way, and that they knew full well the mirthless part of life was still ahead of them... The part where you have to deal with undersexed, triple-named, excessively-groomed newspaper columnists in the Guardian.

The auther is just way behind the times. I mean, this one time I was dressing as a sexy Mary Wollstonecraft, you know, so I could get the totally sexy Doctor Polidori away from that bitch dressed as the prudish Mary Wollstonecraft, but then some guy dressed as a prudish Shelley (if you can imagine)butted in saying I was supposed to be with him and then a sexy Byron(duh)tried to comfort the prudish Mary Wollstonecraft and it just was all a big mess.

Then a sexy BOF Elsa Lancaster strutted in flashing her bandaged arms and hissing at all the guys and basically took over, until she was bitchslapped by the Murder by Death Elsa Lancaster and the refreshment table got totally knocked over and we all went to breakfast at IHOP
and I was utterly sick when I got home.

Anyway, have you seen the sexy Big Bird?

The enduring charm of masculine geographic obsession.

If you want to suck the life out of living, the fun out of life, or the soul out of music...

Listen to a feminist opinion about it.

As a group they're joyless, humorless stains on the soul of humanity.

And arguably worse, they're convinced that women are helpless cowards, never failing to resort to the "women as victims" line and pretending to take a stand against an imaginary threat. Not unlike when small children pretend to be heros or villains in cops and robbers.

I have no patience and less use for them or their opinions.

It shouldnt be that hard Amy, in grade school we got radio shack led board which we set to strobe in reaction to sound.

Find an electonics buff and an out of work effects artist, shouldnt be too hard in socal

Well, there you go. Asked my husband how to spell her last name and it was wrong. Well, he did give me Polidori. I will now proceed to obsess over it and let it spoil my day. Or maybe not. Maybe I was thinking about Burt Lanchester. Yeah.

Now,are we talking about the Murder by Death Elsa Lanchester with the flashing breast thing? Because that would be truly disturbing. Maybe Burt Lancaster with flashing teeth to go with the nipples?

My husband says I'm getting silly and it's time to go to the store. So I guess we'll get into the pirate and go to the store.

Instead of the LEDs, I recommend laser pointers.

Well, I wanst recomending LEDs per se, just that such a getup shouldnt be too hard to fabricate i you really wanted to

I have raised 2 very goth girls, every day is Halloween here. I just got done helping Daughter #2 with a makeup test, we are going to a steam-punk Ball next week, so she wants everything to be perfect :)

I would like to know how a woman who works for a mag named after lady parts and who apparently disapproves of *our* choices can even keep a straight face when she spouts this krep.

Here are some ideas for sexy Halloween costumes:

http://blog.jilliantamaki.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/sexyhalloween.jpg

Here it is larger and easier to read:

http://thehairpin.com/2011/10/have-a-sexy-little-halloween/

From last year.

With the decline of traditional religion, new, modern religions sprout up to fill the vacuum.   The new religions include various cults, like scientology, modern feminism, and progressivism in general.  They share with the old religions a dogmatic belief system, blind faith, hope, messianic leadership.  They also serve the same purpose: a sense of belonging, simple answers to complex questions, moral authority, good vs evil, us vs them.  Modern enemies include racists, sexists, and homophobes.   They also include men, white people, business people, successful people, conservative people, and other infidels.   

Historically, religion has been a force for good, with moral codes and charitable teachings.  Religion has also been a force for war, destruction, and persecution.  

Our technology is modern.  Our brains are prehistoric.  Human nature is constant.   Competition and conflict drive history.   Victor and vanquished.  Rulers and ruled.  Masters and slaves.   Religion, medieval and modern, gives hope, purpose, and guidance to many.   Religion is also a convenient tool for those who would be our masters.  History continues.

momof4, if you want some non-sexy Halloween costumes for adult women, try Amazon.com. I managed to find a witch costume there that doesn't show any cleavage. It's not like putting on a burlap sack, thankfully, but it's not Stripper Witch, either. And it was on sale. I think the sexy costumes are great for those who want them (and have the bodies for them), but we're having an all-ages Halloween party this weekend and I didn't want to scare the little kids.

The tone of the column scares me a bit. "It has to stop?" How, precisely? Do tell.

I'd like to see more variety, too. I love me some slut-wear, but it's dull when all the women I see on Halloween are a sexy version of something or other. Hell, I would applaud a woman dressed as Abraham Lincoln.

On the other hand, I'm trying to work out a slutty pumpkin costume.

"The freedom to dress like a stripper completely independently of any patriachial"

I am tired of the constant associative leap from e.g. "sexy" to "stripper". I've noticed in some other cultures (e.g. in Brazil) women making some effort to appear sexy is just considered normal, healthy, and fun. "Modern feminists" won't stop until every woman is fully de-sexualized and wearing a burka.

I'd like to see more women dress like slutty witches more days of the year, but that's just me.

And me.