Newsweek had an article today wondering if girl's Halloween costumes mightiness be too risque. I wasn't dumfounded (I advert being shocked when I saw new girls finished up as Flavour Girls in 1998) so I decided to sensing around the Internet to gain other doubtful costumes. Not astonishingly, Halloween costumes are markers of not exclusive sexuality and heterosexualism, but of race and year as comfortably.
Let's acquire children's "occupational" costumes, for example. Here are some for girls: The Sculptor missy, nurse, and cheerleader costumes were the most prevalent.
halloween costumes for women
halloween costumes for women
And what about occupations for boys?
And look at how race is marked with some of the children’s costume models (2 cats, and a dancer):
And note how the intersections of race, militarization, sexuality and gender are also displayed in this costume. The first is a children’s costume, and the second is for teenagers. Both costumes are called “Major Flirt.”
And now let’s move on to teenage costumes. Here are some particularly popular ones for teen girls– sexy devils and sexy angels.
And some teen girl “occupation” costumes (prisoner, referee, navy):
And of course there are teen bunnies– “Hunny Bunny Teen” and “Classic Playboy Bunny”:
And what do teen boys get to dress up as? Scary clowns, murdering maniacs, and pimps.
The costumes for couples are also pretty telling– marked by heteronormative stereotypes. The first is a “Pimp and Kristy” costume, the second is a cop costume, and finally a costume of a brick layer and a woman dressed as a home, where the woman is literally displayed as the object, as the object of a man’s action.
