Sunday, October 22, 2006

Happy "Dress-Like-A-Ho" Day!

There wasn't a parental warning on the site. I didn't have to fork over my credit card number or proof of age. And yet I'm freely paging through images of hundreds of pouty women clad in the most outlandish of role-playing fetish gear. There oughta be a law ... against the superskanky women's costumes at SpiritHalloween.com!

From sexy witch to saucy maid, from skanky mail carrier to slutty scarecrow, the Halloween-costume wardrobe for women is now entirely built on a base of thigh-high fishnets and push-up bras.

Oh hells no I'm not wearing that
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Even the New York Times is ready to toss out the G-string vampire costume this Oct. 31.

New York Times: Good Girls Go Bad, For A Day
New York Times: Halloween On Heels

I'm hoping this skeezy trend is a sex-positive feminist "Take Back The Dominatrix Outfits!" holler, but it's hard to keep up that optimism while vainly searching for a costume that wouldn't make my parents cry.
“I think it’s damaging because it’s not just one night a year . ... If it’s all the costume manufacturers make, I think it says something bigger about the culture as a whole.” Tanda Word, Texas Tech student, prefers being warmly dressed on Pumpkin Day

It's worse when tacky oversexualization, aka Skankula, starts preying on the kids' costumes:

I wear more than this to the beach
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Disney It Ain't

Poor Pope Benedict XVI. Like Sammy Hagar to David Lee Roth, he's having a hell of a time living up to his superpopular predecessor. Pope John Paul II got his own comic books, a flash Popemobile, and calls for canonization. Pope Benedict got the keys to the Vatican and some poorly-made flaming effigies.

Now, Pope John Paul II even gets his own animated film.
Cartoon tribute to Pope John Paul

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Experts are calling this a move toward bolstering Catholicism's dwindling popularity among the young folk, but honestly, a cartoon isn’t going to lure in us Catholics feeling increasingly disillusioned by the church’s rigid policies. We want condoms! We want birth control! And not that shifty rhythm method stuff, the real kind! Women clergy members! Popemobiles!

Popemobile!
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