Librarian Halloween Beatdown
on Oct 28 in Halloween, Librarians in popular culture by Erica FirmentLast year I pointed out that my local Target was selling a semi-skanky (and of course, Highly Accurate) “Librarian” Halloween costume.
This became a popular post, and I inadvertently helped sell dozens more of the silly things.
To counteract this, and help bring the universe a bit more into alignment, here’s a charmingly
inflammatory comment on Yahoo! Answers in response to a woman looking for tips on building a librarian Halloween costume:
Yes, ladies (and believe me, in the eyes of the world you are ALL ladies, even the dudes) why desexualize yourself by dressing like a hideous old librarian for Halloween, when you can just step on down to Girls’s Costume Warehouse?
This year I’m going as Frog.
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That video is a riot. My mom and I were in the store today looking at all the costumes aimed at little girls that were essentially slutty versions of normal costumes – slutty cat, slutty princess, slutty witch, slutty pirate, and Cheetah Girl (just plain slutty). Horrifying.
Since I am a secreta-er, ahem, clerical worker, I will go as such. That or a kitty.
Have a happy Halloween! Hopefully, you can explode a few negative societal trends, in lieu of pumpkins.
Erica, I know you will appreciate this costume: an internet meme!
http://jeff.weblog.ro/2007-10-31/206276/2007-10-30-ithaca.html
I spent the whole night explaining what a lolcat is!
America’s most common Halloween costumes
Courtesy of The Economist
That video reminds of the line in Mean Girls, “Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.”
Slutty – scary – what’s the difference!