Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Some new commentary on Girls's Costume Warehouse

Back in 2007, I worked for a now-defunct adult website.

In preparation for recording videos, one of my bosses ordered the big, phonebook sized costume catalogs from companies like Leg Avenue. I leafed through them with fascination, because, after all, I'm a costume geek at heart.

And then suddenly it dawned on me:

We, as a society, have so bought in to the "Halloween is the time to for women dress like a stripper" idea, that literally, we go to costume stores and buy actual costumes marketed to the adult industry the other eleven months of the year.

There is so much to be said here involving slut shaming, stigmatization of sex workers, the virgin/whore dichotomy, the commoditization of women's bodies, etc etc etc.

There's nothing wrong with sexy costumes, please don't misunderstand me. I just wanted to highlight the extremely literal manifestation of this societal idea.

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Feminists are NOT of God Almighty -
and if you croak like that,
bitchy, rude, dyky...
I fear for thy soul.
You are a young woman.
Try to remember THAT with 2 ovaries: cannot change no matter how hard you try.

You're very confused apparently.
Find-out the Way things R supposed to look in Seventh-Heaven...

'The more you shall honor Me,
the more I shall bless you'
-the Infant Jesus of Prague
(<- Czech Republic, next to Russia)

trustNjesus, dear,
and wiseabove to the Great Beyond
where I'll see you someday if you repent and believe... and not in the whorizontal, but in the King of Hearts.

Cuzz, believe-you-me, goirl, 1-outta-1 bites-the-dust... and if you aint prepared to see our Saviour, whoops.

God bless your indelible soul.

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