Tuesday, October 23, 2007

HW 17: My favorite post

My favorite blog post from this past week was the post I found on the Feministe blog entitled "When Blowback Pays Off." You can find this post by going to the following link, http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/10/09/when-blowback-pays-off/. The post was about a new idea for a Halloween costume being called "Sexy Anna Rexia." It is a costume that is a skin tight black mini dress that has a skeleton design on it and includes a belt that is actually a tape measure, a chocker that looks like a tape measure and a Anna Rexia badge to go with it. I think this is one of the worst ideas for a costume that anyone has ever thought up. It makes me sick to know that someone actually thinks of a skinny anorexic person as looking "sexy." To top things all off, the fact that they are encouraging the deadly disease by designing a costume advertising it as sexy is another perfect example of how screwed up people are in our country. I like that the article mentions the costume has been pulled from shelves and discontinued. When I read the responses to the post I found one that made me laugh because it was funny and at the same time a sad reminder of the truth. "Oh they sex up EVERYTHING! It’s incredible. There was a sexy Hermione [Of Harry Potter] costume I saw the other day- priceless." This is the response I am talking about. It speaks the whole truth. When you go into iParty, or Spencer's, or any place that sells costumes you cant find more than 5 costumes for girls above the age of 12 that dont fall under the "sexy" category. Halloween is becoming a commercialized holiday for girls to dress like whores and I don't really like it.