Thursday, October 13, 2011

Trick or Tease: Why Do Females Choose Diaphanous Costumes on Halloween?

Excited for upcoming All Hallows' Eve festivities? Have you invested a great deal of thought and time into your costume? Perverted, hilarious, or obscene; you're entering that party to achieve notable attention....even if you look dumb. What about the ladies? It seems like all they have to do is dress in skimpy outfits and ta-da!

They can be anything they want, as long as the word "Sexy' sits in front of their description: Cop, Nurse, Schoolgirl, Vampire, or Disney character. As long as they wear short-shorts and a push-up bra, males applaud their valiant efforts to respect the holiday's purpose.

But why do females need to be sexy on a day that asks to disguise oneself from their everyday appearance? Could it be insecuities? Not only do they crave the complimentory attention at a party but a photo album's worth of memories on Facebook will let everyone know their creative spirit. Oh, lovely!

The ugly truth can quite possibly be that females are more judgemental than males. Remember the scene in Mean Girls, where Lohan dresses ghoulish and the others clothed scandalously? Lohan's character, not being fully Westernized, followed the plausible theme of Halloween. She was, in return, shunned and laughed at for it. I find that to be true in real life. I think females dress sexy in order to one-up and impress other females with their sexiness. And of course, attention from males only helps their case and makes other females jealous.

Maybe it's not about us, guys. Maybe it's a need females have to always feel pretty. Males are largely to blame - don't get us wrong. But females are quite nasty and brutal to each other. It's simply easier to blame males, though.