While there’s nothing wrong with wearing a revealing costume if you want to, I hate that those seem to be the only ones available for women. At the end of October, I’d rather be a little more covered up. I’ll probably just buy a headband with ears of some sort.

So many mean girls references; LOVE! Amazingly written <3

Life and consequence Mrs. Desrosiers. I as a man have the right to walk about down town in short shorts and a tee-shirt that’s three sizes too small, but with the decision to do so comes the understanding that I will look like a homosexual and people will assume I am. Now I can argue that I’m not until the cows come home, and even be right, but the simple fact that I chose to dress like one is compelling evidence to the contrary. The act of running about half naked because you are desperately starved for attention, and isn’t that sad, is much the same. If you want to run about in your underwear that is your right as a human being and I am happy to defend that right. That said it is my right to look at you and say “That kind of attention mongering is pathetic and desperate.”, and then proceed to shun you for it. If your particular brand of attention whoring involves dressing like a slut then you need to make a decision. Option one, I believe being a slut is bad and so I have made the wrong decision when I dressed as one and next year I should not repeat the experience, or option two, I believe being a slut is an admirable and in no way objectionable state of being and will proudly do it again. When it comes right down to it, others aren’t shaming you, they are simply identifying you as what you present yourself as and voicing an opinion as to their distaste for your choice, and they have the right to find your clothes distasteful and to voice that opinion. Make no mistake, you are dressing like a slut, that can’t be argued. Any shame you feel is based on you finding your clothes distasteful, not on them disliking them. If you truly didn’t, you wouldn’t feel ashamed you would simply write them off as obnoxious and find more pleasant people to be around. Either you concider the label slut an insult or a compliment. That is your choice. But if you run around in brightly coloured underwear in public, make no mistake, you are a slut for attention id nothing else. You just need to get secure enough in yourself to accept an like that, or you could always write a vindictive and childish article to attempt to justify your behaviorm in such a way as can only be described as wanting to have your cake and eat it too, under the thin veil of progressive feminism.

You wrote: “costume store walls are quite literally lined with Leg Avenue and other similar costumes, urging us to show as much skin as possible”; and that, for me IS the problem. There’s this bombardment of costumes entitled “Sexy ___” and because that’s all there is in drug stores, clothing and costume shops, it’s equivlent to saying “if you can’t fit in one of these then I guess you’re just not a sexy/attractive/ideal woman”. Halloween isn’t an excuse to be just “slutty” it’s an excuse to be whatever you want to be or dress as (maybe slutty is it), but that “slutty” aspect is literally the only option that been presented year after year. I haven’t dressed in a costume for 3 years because I haven’t had time to make anything and there isn’t anything available devoid of the word “sexy” for me to buy.