I am going as a giant vagina...I even got myself a clitoral hoodie :)

I'm going as a sexy hobo. Blacked out teeth. Dirt on face. Miniskirt and bustier made out of cardboard and newspaper - the works!

ooh! ooh!

I just got an idea.

How about.... Ann Coulter?

Or, I was thinking of (half-jokingly) suggesting to a guy that I could be Joan Jett and he can be my groupie (we both love Joan Jett).

Wow, that's ugly. He's misunderstood the whole problem, or is characterizing it as an individual rather than societal issue.

People can be as sexy as they want to be, and they can do it in huge groups. Woo! My only objection comes when the only costumes available for women are the sexy ones, and the sexiness starts to feel like it has been imposed on me rather than coming from me as an organic act. That's all. So he doesn't get that. It doesn't seem like a difficult distinction to me.

Anyway... Good costumes? I'm drawing a blank.

Also, non-feminist related, but I'm currently in Mexico and was thinking of buying some day of the dead getup and mariachi (sp?) suits with my friend

Maude Lebowski!

This year, I was invited to six Halloween parties, which would not be strange if it weren't for the fact that I'm older than 12. Meanwhile, I was invited to zero New Year's Eve parties last year. People vastly prefer Halloween parties because New Year's Eve involves dressing up like an adult, whereas Halloween involves dressing up like a slut.

Does he really think that he didn't get invited to any NYE parties because nobody wanted to have any because they couldn't dress up as sluts?

FYI, I'm getting an error when I click on the Joan Collins link. It says:

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You don't have permission to access "/L/1969/8382/7d/cdn-i.imdb.com/Photos/Mptv/1320/9295_0024.jpg" on this server.

So ridiculous. Not one mention about all of the offensive costumes men can choose. For instance, the number of men I ran into last Halloween, dressed as the Duke Lacrosse team, and asking every women if they wanted to be raped. Yeah. Because its the sluts we should worry about.

I'm going as Harry Lime from The Third Man, but I think I'm gonna change the name of my costume to "Sexy Orson Welles."

And P.S. How fucking old is this topic? If I have to read one more "women dress in provocative costumes on Halloween, and I must be the only person intelligent enough to notice this trend, so please reward me with a blowjob for my cutting social commentary," articles, I'm going to vomit with rage.

Hmm. Aside from my distaste for words like "slut" and "whore," I thought that it was fairly good satire that did a pretty decent job of pointing out cultural misogyny.

I honestly don't care enough either way to sit around and defend it, but I do find the difference in interpretation interesting.

"ooh! ooh!

I just got an idea.

How about.... Ann Coulter?" - Ninapendamaishi

Might work better if I went as Coulter.

"Not one mention about all of the offensive costumes men can choose. For instance, the number of men I ran into last Halloween, dressed as the Duke Lacrosse team, and asking every women if they wanted to be raped." - Magpie21

Sounds more offensive to the Duke Lacrosse team than anyone else.

I'm going as Natasha from Rocky and Bullwinkle. My fiance will be Boris. I'm excited to get to go around using bad Russian accents.

So, noname, what are your other hobbies, besides sexism and general douchebaggery?

I'm planning on going as sexy Abe Lincoln. If only I could find the beard.

I'm working on my Jem costume at this very moment! :)

Screwed it up a bit, of course, as I am not the most talented person with a sewing machine, so I'm doing a little damage control now!

I don't have a reason to dress up this year, but I do have a semi-relevant funny Halloween story to share.
I work at a private music school in Cleveland that caters to the children of rich people. We have lessons on the day of Halloween, and of course, people want to reschedule so their kids can go trick-or-treating. The (very conservative Evangelical Christian)director of the school was not allowing people to reschedule their lessons, and sent me this memo (and I quote):
"If anyone asks why we aren't closed on this day, say that whereas some people celebrate Halloween, some people don’t and if we close that day, those people wouldn’t be happy. Some people hate it because of the association with evil, witchcraft, horror, violence – even gruesome violence, etc."

...which made me chuckle. I have to call and tell the parents to practice Santeria on their own time, not ours. :)

One costume that sounded fun was Static Cling. Attach balloons and socks randomly to your person.

I've joked about going as a sexy toothbrush for years, but have given that up as funnier said than done. This year I was inspired by my spouse's out-of-control mutton chops to be Moby Dick and Ahab. So, I'm going to be a large white whale. So far, the costume is looking like a penis, which means I may not be able to attend the staff party.

I'm going as (sexy?) Darth Vader and my significant other is going to be Hans Solo. Yay!

As for costume ideas, have you thought about the best WTF!? sexy costume of the season?...http://www.yandy.com/Shopping/products/prod_1390.asp

Nothing says, "HOT!" like slutting up a depression era doll!

I'm thinking of going as a sexy tampon (all in white with a long white tail, I'm not sure about the blood) while my best friend goes as a sexy maxi pad.

I was dragged with my freshman dorm mates to an Exotic Erotic party, where I wore a red clip-on bow tie and a plastic bag from the campus bookstore that I had punctured for leg holes. It was neither exotic nor erotic. But it did make a point that society has since learned: Neither gender wants men to try to be sexy. Slut Day will embrace that fact by having all men dress like Hef: silk pajamas or bathrobes only.

I'm not going to rail on Stein as much as I should but I do think he's got a point here. Not that there aren't women who don't want to see men sexy (Hello West Hollywood Halloween Parade!!) but much like when you go to straight clubs and there are only half dressed women dancing in cages, or around poles, or what have you, quite a few women and a majority of straight men are uncomfortable with seeing other men being SEEN as sexual objects, instead of getting to be the ones to oogle and judge. Whether they're worried they'll find the guy hot themselves, or that their girlfriend or other women will start comparing and contrasting, men still have issues with that. And I believe quite a few women have been conditioned into this as well.

Which, again, is why I like me some WeHo Halloween parades, hot guys on display for a good six hours. Sadly, most of them will be gay. :(

And I said this in another thread but for a Halloween party this weekend I'm going as a "Client" from the movie Hostel. My friend and I will have the aprons and will be covered in fake blood and body parts if I can find them:). Happy Halloween!

I'm wearing a Groucho Marx costume, and then making some L shaped angles all over me.

Get it? Marx and Angles...

A friend of mine is dressing up in a bathing suit with a lei and having mascara running down her face; she's a Tropical Depression.

My God, Heatherinspring. There are some doozies on that site. I quite honestly do not know where to start. LOL

ny boyfriend and i are going as michel and patricia from breathless. that is if i can get out of bed. stupid bronchitis.

I'm going as a Rubik's Cube! Cardboard, construction paper and a black marker recreates an instant 80's classic. And I don't have to worry about my boobs popping out of some cheaply sewn spandex costume to boot.

I'm going as a Rubik's Cube! Cardboard, construction paper and a black marker recreates an instant 80's classic. And I don't have to worry about my boobs popping out of some cheaply sewn spandex costume to boot.

I'm looking for a cow costume (they are really hard to find!). I want to put wings and a halo to it and be "HOLY COW!" :)

I don't think I can make sexy cow work. :D

i'm going as bikini kill-era kathleen hanna, 'SLUT' on my stomach and all.

for once, i'm very excited for it to be halloween.

i'm going as bikini kill-era kathleen hanna, 'SLUT' on my stomach and all.

for once, i'm very excited for it to be halloween.

soymilk, "And P.S. How fucking old is this topic? If I have to read one more "women dress in provocative costumes on Halloween, and I must be the only person intelligent enough to notice this trend, so please reward me with a blowjob for my cutting social commentary," articles, I'm going to vomit with rage."

SERIOUSLY.

abzab6, now THAT is a sexy costume.

i'm going as a lolcat.

the receptionist from beetlejuice! thats what im going as...painting myself blue and everything.

elektrodot - that is a FABULOUS costume idea!

rileystclair - I was wondering: How are you doing your costume? Kitty costume with a sign on a stick? Slogan T-shirt? When I read that I pictured a kitty wearing a tee that says "EXCUSE ME WTF r u doin?" LOL!

OMG. LOL Cat is a brilliant idea! If only I had a cat costume.

We've been getting a lot of traffic recently from people putting in things like "feminist Halloween costume for girls" into a Google search. It seems like maybe some parents don't want to dress their kids up like little baby devil slut again this year. So I racked my brains and came up with Marie Curie, Amelia Earhart, Billie Holiday, Janis Joplin, and Hermione Granger. I sorta liked the Curie idea, though, so I might put on a lab coat and smear glow-in-the-dark face paint on my hands.

OK, I just had another idea:

If I was skinnier and could wear a pair of roller skates without falling on my ass constantly, I would TOTALLY do a Kira costume (Olivia Newton John's character in Xanadu!)

I have to say I agree with Cara. I think it was ok satire too and I especially agree with (as UM pointed out) his point that men are not supposed to display sexiness. (e.g. “Who wants to see two guys make out?�, which is something I have heard girls say). That and I share his disgust for pimp and ho parties.

I'm going to paint my face like a skeleton :)

You could be a Roller Derby player without being a stick, but you'd still need the skates. But the goth make-up could be fun.

Ninapendamaishi, funny you should say that... last week my boyfriend and I hit up the thrift stores and walked out with Ann Coulter and Mr. Rogers costumes. Come to think of it, that might be as close to polar opposites as you can get.

ok...totally off topic...but ya know, for some people halloween is a little more than dressing up and going for candy. sure, i still do it...but anyone who thinks this is a "kid's holiday" need do a little research. i don't normally get offended...but really...a little religious tolerance is nice...(btw...this isn't a jab at anyone here...just in general...stein's article got me re-riled up...)
my thoughts: on halloween

apologies if the link didn't work

damn...i am really bad at links...it's on my page...grr...

but i do love the dressing up and kid stuff too...

last year my kid was hermione granger, and this year she is yvane from 'stardust'.

i once went as a bar of soap...used foam and stuck clear balloons all over...

So-called boys' costumes -- firefighter, ninja, zombie, werewolf -- there's no reason girls can't wear them too. Same goes for women wearing so-called men's costumes.

Since when did a the gender of a zombie or a mummy or a ghost really matter?

Except in our wonderful porntoia.

My husband and I are going as robots from the Flight of the Conchords- "The Humans Are Dead" video. I guess we will be sexy robots since Bret and Jemaine are sexy...

I used to think Joel Stein was sorta hot, but now not so much.

I'm going as Detective Benson from Law and Order SVU, because my main goal at all parties (costume or otherwise) is to patrol the scene making sure all sexy goings-on are consensual. "Hey! If I have to tell you 'the absence of a no is NOT the presence of yes' one more time I'm taking you down to the precinct and you can spen Halloween in the pen!"

I'm going as a generic evil priest of some generic evil god.

I could be Joan Jett and he can be my groupie (we both love Joan Jett).

But Joan Jett is a lesbian! No, really! She and Carmen Electra have just gotten back together. I am not making it up. They are my favorite celebrity couple.

You should have your man go as Carmen Electra!

Ready Made Blog has a great suggestion for being a sexy Road-Killed Possum.

http://readymademag.com/blog/2007/10/26/dont-be-a-halloweenie/

Pretty much the best idea ever.

I'm going as Rosie the Riveter. One of most badass woman I could think of.

I worked at a day camp this summer and wore my Rosie costume for the dress up day. One snarky coworker asked me why I was dressed up as a gas station attendant. I thought about telling him "Rivet this!"

I'm being a sexy Queen of Hearts - when I decided to do it I was going to buy the costume... but they were TOO damned sexy! So I'm sewing my own, in a slightly toned-down-sexy version. I can't wait to carry that flamingo around all night.

As much as I love the sexy mustard video, I'm disturbed to note that I've seen at least two of the parody costumes (sexy mental patient and sexy palace guard) on sale this year. *headdesks*

I'm going with a homemade Batgirl costume this year. Not super unique, but what can I say? Barbara Gordon is hardcore. :D

I am being Lily Allen, mainly because all I had to get was gold earrings and a long chain, I already had a poofy dress and sneakers.

Also, I like her.

this year, I'm Captain Feathersword from the Wiggles, My partner is Murray and our daughter is a Hot Potato. Her Gramma made the costume and it is ridiculously cute.

I have always made my own costumes. I recommend the Crayon- take a really long shirt or an oversized colored dress, felt letters that say "Crayon" and for the hat, an upside down flower pot spray painted to match the dress :). A bag of Jelly Beans is easy too- small balloons blown up and put in a clear garbage bag you wear.

Last year I was Little Pink Breast Cancer Awareness Ridinghood.

This year I'm being Jem from Jem and the Holograms, my friend is going as Pizzazz.

I'm stoked.

Mz.Stilletto and magular :

You are both truly outrageous. Truly, truly, truly outrageous.

oh yeah! we totally dressed my younger cousin up as a bad of jelly bean when he was two...too cute!

if i had anywhere to go i would probably go as ziggy stardust since my hair is short and red and im convinced david bowie knows the meaning of life. i have class that day, so im thinking maybe alot of black eyemakeup and a grey hoodie with some cat ears and i can be a racoon.

Last year I thought my costume was damn sexy, but it was about acting out my own fantasy, not anyone else's. I was the villainess Poison Ivy from Batman- and not the hideous Uma Thurman interpretation. I have a soft spot for kickass redheads, particularly EEEEVIILL ones. :) My boyfriend did a hilarious Batman with rubber boots and kitchen gloves. We had a blast.

This year we're going as Mario & Luigi, with myself as Luigi. I've interpreted the costume as feminine, but it's not going to be overly sexy, either. Green long sleeve shirt, white suspenders, denim skirt, green & white tights, and my favorite pair of knee-high boots.

(Then again, we Google cosplay sites with envy and wish we had that much time on our hands. That's us, though...)

I'm going as a 40s film noir heroine, with trench coat and smoky eyes. With the help of the internets, I figured out how to do pin curls. It's certainly given me an appreciation for what women had to deal with - it takes me over an hour to put them in, it has to be meticulously maintained while it dries, and then it only lasts a day or two before it's all jacked up and has to be washed out. It's a whole lifestyle to maintain this hair! Astounding!

I was the Virgin Mary last night (a very easy costume to throw together...just a white bed sheet and a blue head scarf, fake baby...you get the picture. And we're both Jewish ladies, so it fit). I definitely stood in contrast to all the other barely-dressed young women at my friend's party. So much so, that I felt kinda pissed about it. It was straight of of Mean Girls.

Not only that, I also stayed, with a couple of my school's security officers, for an hour with a dry-heaving drunk gal in a sexy police costume (apparently, women patrol the streets best in an ultra -short, pleated mini-skirt). I had to keep covering her up with a blanket, so her underwear wouldn't be on display until her mother came and picked her up. Her mom asked where her pants were.

I think guys should dress sexy. It's time for them to be vulnerable too. Or maybe we should all get into the real spirit of Halloween and make/find an actual, creative costume. If I have to see another pair of fishnets any time soon, I think I will freak.

It seems the major difference between many sexy vs. non-sexy versions of a costume, such as sexy fireman, sexy mental patient, sexy nurse, is simply pants. So many of them look just like the men's costume, but with no pants.

I saw a great costume at a Halloween party years ago — a woman giving birth.

She had attached a Cabbage Patch doll head to a pair of boxer shorts and was wearing a hospital-style top. It was kind of creepy to walk in and see her sitting on a couch, legs open with the ‘baby’ part-way out, chatting away with a beer in hand.

I once went to a party dressed as a condom. I made the costume from 2 garbage bags (the small, coloured kind for indoors). They were bright yellow, but the bags also come in white. I cut open the bottom of one bag and attached it to the other one which had armholes and a neck hole cut in it. The neck hole cutout waste got taped onto a hat to make a tip.

OMG OMG! Both my partner and I just read this an I gotta say the laughter at this idiot's ideas significantly helped our hangovers. What exactly is a "whore whore"??

On that note I am dressing up as Medusa on Oct. 30th for my work at the abortion clinic. In my backward ass province women who want abortions have to go to the Morgantaler clinic and wade through protestors. We work to help fend off the assholes and escort the women safely into the clinic. I figure turning a few protestors to stone can only help humanity.:)

OMG OMG! Both my partner and I just read this an I gotta say the laughter at this idiot's ideas significantly helped our hangovers. What exactly is a "whore whore"??

On that note I am dressing up as Medusa on Oct. 30th for my work at the abortion clinic. In my backward ass province women who want abortions have to go to the Morgantaler clinic and wade through protestors. We work to help fend off the assholes and escort the women safely into the clinic. I figure turning a few protestors to stone can only help humanity.:)

OMG OMG! Both my partner and I just read this an I gotta say the laughter at this idiot's ideas significantly helped our hangovers. What exactly is a "whore whore"??

On that note I am dressing up as Medusa on Oct. 30th for my work at the abortion clinic. In my backward ass province women who want abortions have to go to the Morgantaler clinic and wade through protestors. We work to help fend off the assholes and escort the women safely into the clinic. I figure turning a few protestors to stone can only help humanity.:)

"So, noname, what are your other hobbies, besides sexism and general douchebaggery?" - Cara

I like long walks on the beach. What promted the personal attack?

Actually, forget it. I don't have the energy to get into another one of these pile-ons.

I plan to put my baby in this onesie and jeans, and wear a white nightgown stained with ketchup. The spouse will wear a green coat and grown his stubble out.

Only the cool people will get it, though.

la pobre habladora, "feminist Halloween costume for girls"...I racked my brains...Hermione Granger...

The site Heatherinspring pointed out has a "Sexy Hermione Granger" costume for women that looks like it might be more appropriately sized for a kid.

It also has a "Bad Bull" sexy female bull costume. OK, really a reference to an energy drink, but still totally awesome in its WTFness.

What the hell?!

I live in Athes Ohio which has a huuuuge halloween block party (like most Ohio colleges, but we were the first). Anyway, I am looking forward to going uptown tonight, and seeing all the sweet ass costumes, along with the silly college girls who will be half naked and freezing their asses off. Good times all around.

I'm going as the Paper Bag Princess. Did anyone else read that growing up?

Lucy-

i am not a cool person. i don't get it. :(

you all are super creative, i love it. the sig o and i are doing pinocchio and the blue fairy. i was going to do pippi longstocking, but wings were cheaper than hair dye and money is a bit tight. ah well. :D

I went to a Halloween party last night and I put together a roller derby costume, basically, because I wanted the excuse to wear roller skates all night. I wanted to use the name "Helen Wheels", but I ran out of iron on letters, and had to be "Axel Rose" (which, I only had to explain a few times.)
It was fun as hell, I didn't fall once, even after several drinks.

I'm going as a margarita with a friend as a salt shaker...my costume isn't the best, but easy to do if you need an idea: I'm wearing all black, with cut out of lime green fabric the drink, with the wide part over my shoulders, complete with lime on one shoulder.
I think Medusa costume is a good idea, a friend did it before making little snakes out of pipe-cleaners and sticking them out of her hair.

I am off to a halloween party tonight and although my costume is not quite as creative as all of yours it is really easy for me to wear and is the opposite of any stereotypes of women.....I am going as a rugby player since I play rugby for my university.

Seriously?? I thought Joan Jett was bi

Definitely serious about Carmen Electra being her girlfriend! I've never heard of her being with a man, and I've always gotten a kind of dykey impression of her, but hey, I could be wrong...

Kamacys - I lived in Athens for 6 years! I didn't bother going to the Halloween block party, except when Michael Moore and Jesse Jackson came to speak before the 2004 election. I bet you will see some funny costumes (and a lot of "sexy" costumes).

I don't get why boys cannot wear girls' costumes and why men cannot wear women's costumes.

The reason why men don't want to bare the full monty (or even dress sexy at that) is not because of sexiness but because of misandry -- the other M word.

If I had to dress up for Halloween, I would have dressed up as Catman (the male version of Catwoman).

i'm going as box in a box ala dick in a box. complete with early 1990s makeup and bangs!

my backup idea was: a freudian slip - get a black slip and write freudian phrases all over it.

My daughter wants to be a pirate zombie. Honestly I think that's an *awesome* idea.

Someday when I have the wherewithal to make the costume, since they don't sell it for adults or even for kids anymore, I am going as Magneto. I'm not doing a costume this year though -- I did have the idea of going out as a golden gynoid, but too much is going on this year.

If I could find V's mask, either from the movie or from the comics, I would totally be V from V for Vendetta.

tharine, we'll be the Winchesters from Supernatural. Well, Dean (baby), Mary (me), and John (spouse), anyway. It's really just an excuse to dress babygirl up as Dean Winchester ;).

I saw a great group costume last year: the running of the bulls in Pamplona.

A bunch of people were dressed in white shirts and pants, with red scarves and belts, and behind them was someone with a bull's head.

While I believe that Jett and Electra would actually date each other, I think that them actually dating each other now is nothing more than tabloid talk. I've been sifting through Joan Jett's message boards and havent found one sniff of a confirmation.

Which leads me to believe that both are bisexuals.

This year, I'm going as the Scarlet Witch, which is a bit form-fitting but doesn't actually show much skin, and hey, it's creative. I actually show less skin than my boyfriend, who is a Byzantine soldier (thus, no pants).

Though since he, in the course of the night, mentioned that he did a drag ball once, next year he's going as a French maid. I plan to objectify him the whole time. It will be great.

I think that them actually dating each other now is nothing more than tabloid talk.

I'm not surprised that there's not much on message boards--Jett's always been a stickler for keeping her private life under wraps and I bet her fans respect that. It's ben very steady tabloid talk for almost a year now, without any sort of scandalous melodrama of the kind that would suggest to me making shit up to sell copies, and I do read that they keep hanging around each other backstage and dyke music festivals! And Electra is playing Jett's lover in a video about a beloved who keeps playing around with both women and men.

In other words--don't harsh my buzz! I want to live in a world where Jett and Electra are a couple!

The "nobody wants to see guys dressing sexy" bit is bullshit. At the Barrymore's annual Witches' Gathering, there are costume categories for "sexiest male" and "sexiest female". One year, a guy in drag as Cleopatra got nominated for both. They also have categories for "best male", "best female", and "best couple or group".

Although I have great admiration for people who can do social commentary costumes that are timely and recognizable, I prefer to do mythological costumes. This year my husband and I are going as merfolk; previously we were Oberon and Titania; a few years down the line we'll be kitsune.

I also think that if you're looking for feminist costumes for young girls, a good place to start is with mythology. One of my most successful costumes from childhood was a Valkyrie outfit. There are also lots of goddesses who represent strong femininity. And I'd include superheroines and supervillainesses as modern mythological figures.

ShifterCat-- of course, it depends on the superheroine or the supervillianess! Some of those costumes are pretty, er, revealing.

Actually, it sounds to me like Joel Stein just has no idea how to dress sexy. A bow tie and a plastic bag -- WTF? Mark Dacascos could be wearing that, and I wouldn't find it sexy.

Basiorana -- this is true. I'd steer a little girl towards Batgirl or Storm, and away from Elektra or Psylocke.

Since I live in Canada, and we occasionally get snow on Hallowe'en, any "skimpy" child's costume would have to be worn over a flesh-coloured shirt and tights, and possibly layered with warm underwear also. (I even have to take the weather into account with our merfolk costumes this year; a seashell bra is fine for sweating in a nightclub, but for work I'd wear a top underneath.)

When I was five, I was Tinkerbell, and I FROZE all night. Next year, I was a crayon-- I learned my lesson! Cold weather was always the best argument for layered, modest costumes, in my opinion.

I went to a sports bar and grill kind of place tonight to watch the baseball game with my brother and his girlfriend. It didn't even cross my mind that the waitstaff would be dressed for Halloween. None of the male waiters were dressed up. All of the female ones were, but only one was wearing pants. She was a cowgirl - checked shirt, vest, hat, boots. (I was dying to tell her what the red bandanna sticking out of her right jeans pocket meant, but figured perhaps she is a leatherdyke outside of work and it's her private joke, or I'm the only one in the bar who even thought it. So I kept my own counsel.)

The rest of the women were wearing costumes that barely made sense: nun with habit and black robe that ended at upper thigh, football player in tight jersey and tiny tight spandex shorts that ended at upper-thigh. One was wearing a corset and miniskirt. I asked my brother and his girlfriend if they could tell what her costume was, or if they thought she just wanted to wear her lingerie. Brother refused to give an opinion, figuring nothing he could say would seem appropriately non-sexist, so his girlfriend and I just discussed whether the women were dressing so provocatively because they enjoyed it, or because they thought would get them bigger tips from the mostly-male patrons of a sports bar.

Most adults I know like Halloween and all the attendant costumes and parties. Even in absence of the overly sexy costumes, it really doesn't excite me.

Ugh, went to Halloween party last night. Tried to dance with my boyfriend, but the music the DJ was blasting was some awful song called "Pussy Control," which in terms of misogyny, blows JT & 50's little ditty right out of the water. Best female costume was Ann Coulter (it was pretty great- devil horns, pitchfork, blond wig, "I hate liberals" nametag), but second runner up was a "sexy sailor," complete with one of her female friends gyrating against her. Lastly, tried to ask one of the male costume winners where he found his costume, and he wouldn't even talk to me until a guy asked him the same question. Apparently talking to women is only necessary when he thinks he might have a chance of sleeping with them. God, what an awful night generally.

Three words:

Sexy Alan Greenspan

How's that for gender parity?

DrkEyedCajn, I agree with one thing you said about Prince's "Pussy Control": it is an awful song. But is not nearly as misogynistic as Nelly's "Tipdrill", which caused an uproar at Atlanta's Spelman College.

And I have a backup costume for myself:

birthday suit

I agree with others who think you might have misread Stein. He didn't condemn anyone for dressing sexily just the oddness of so many sexy costumes on the same day kids dress up. Like some weird Freudian thing. Stein tends to say feminist things in his column every now and again.