“Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.”
Around Halloween I tend to hear women say one of two things; either:
I wanna be a sexy [insert costume name here]!
Or:
Oh my God, there are so many slutty costumes. I can’t believe anyone even wears these.
Every Halloween women’s costumes become a big deal and it seems that everyone is talking about them. As the Mean Girls quote above explains, Halloween is a time for girls/women to dress like “total sluts.” Now I don’t want to suggest that women who wear sexy Halloween costumes are sluts. First of all, I hate the connotations of that word. Second of all, I am not about to go around slut-shaming other women. If you want to dress in a costume that is revealing, that is fine with me. I can’t say that I have never worn a revealing costume (one year, I was a sexy sailor). Everybody likes looking sexy. There is nothing wrong with sexy.
That being said, I do think society has put more pressure on women to wear sexy costumes than men.
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