Halloween
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Halloween makes me think of the Dead Kennedys song "Halloween". In it, Jello sings about how people spend Halloween being weird and counterculture and unrestrained, but are too afraid to do the same on any other day of the year. Halloween feels important to me because it's supposed to represent counterculture. But it's so commercialized that it becomes difficult to find anything counterculture amidst all of the "choose which movie, TV, or video game you're going to help a company promote with your pop culture costume".
The message of the song resonates with me, and I think that message is "you think Halloween grants you special permission, but you never needed permission to begin with".
i'm going to go far left here and say that i appreciate it for what it is.
i've gone both ways. i've done a sexy nurse and a manila folder. marilyn monroe and suicide (my costumes sometimes end up pretty abstract and esoteric). but i think that, speaking as an american, our society makes sexuality -- especially female sexuality -- such a double-edged blade.
women still end up forced into the virgin-slut dichotomy. obviously i can't speak for everyone, but i know that i myself sometimes want to go as all out sexualized as i can. why? because it's fun. because it's instinct. because... who knows. and sometimes i just want to go to the store in my ugly pajamas with my hair all ratty and face all blotchy. why? who knows.
but i don't, because of this unfortunate perception of the feminine. the woman has to be somewhere between not sexy enough and too sexy (prude or whore? pick your poison) to be seen as worthwhile. women are constantly judged on how well they walk this fine line. think about it -- how many times have you walked down the street and thought "slob" as the woman in the oversized t shirt and sweats walks by, and moments later see the woman in stilettos and that low cu
i'm so sick of this word. slut. whore. bimbo.
fuck it. i love short skirts and low cut tops. i love flaunting my sexuality in public.
i am a slut. yes, i am a slut. it frustrates me that it seems like the only choice for women on halloween is low cut and short. but it also frustrates me that i fall for it every year, because it's one 24 hour outlet for the pent up frustration of walking the knife's edge of female sexuality for an entire year.
maybe if the whore/virgin dichotomy didn't still penetrate every female's subconscious almost constantly then there wouldn't be a need for "slut day." maybe if the word slut ceased to exist then there wouldn't be so many women going over the top because they know for once they won't be judged intellectually and emotionally for what they happen to be wearing.
sorry this is shitty and disjointed. i typed out a whole long comment and then my browser crashed so i'm trying to sum it up briefly.
I'm not saying that I hate it. I just kinda find it funny. Hell, perhaps if I had bigger boobs I'd flaunt them. I do enjoy my legs, and have been known to wear weird short skirts. But I've seen girl actually go around in pretty much a bra and panties - which it fine - I just find it humorous.
I'd rather be whore then prude in all honesty. Whore have more fun. ;D
In some ways I would have to be considered a "whore" because pre-marital sex runs my life. I cannot understand people who wait till they're married. Doesn't make sense to me. Because seriously... lets face it. It's healthier in the relationship to have sex before marriage because sex is a major part of marriage and if he/she isn't cuttin it in the sack your marriage will be a tough one.
But anyways I'm getting off topic. I too dislike the words. And how come it doesn't apply to men? But I guess that's just the way it is. And apparently it isn't changing.
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