October 19, 2006
HALLOWEEN CANDY
Free candy. That pretty much makes Halloween the best holiday ever. The New York Times, however, has addressed the second-best-thing about October 31st: women feel emboldened to dress like total sluts.
“It’s a night when even a nice girl can dress like a dominatrix and still hold her head up the next morning,” said Linda M. Scott, the author of “Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism” (Palgrave Macmillan) and a professor of marketing at the University of Oxford in England.
The trend is so pervasive it has been written about by college students in campus newspapers, and Carlos Mencia, the comedian, jokes that Halloween should now be called Dress-Like-a-Whore Day.
Halloween is an adaptation of a religious holiday (All Saints' Day) copped from a Celtic pagan festival (Samhain), so perhaps we've just come full circle. I'm certainly not going to complain.
Tagged:Posted by Lexiphane at October 19, 2006 10:29 AM
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