"Adult" Halloween

#6 - The Male Gaze

In Short:
Men's sexual perspective normalizes the dehumanization of women and girls, and inoculates men from being dehumanized themselves.

Derived From:
#5 - All Women are Sexual Prospects
#8 - Privilege to Make the Rules
#4 - Privilege of Violence
#3 - Prostitution
#2 - Ownership of Women's Bodies

Exclusive to Men Because:
Men, as a class, are protected from dehumanization while women, as a class, are not. Society condemns anyone who might possibly sexualize men (most notably gay men and the infamous "cougars"), while entire industries are set up to encourage the rampant sexualization of women and young girls.

Harms:
A society that does not see women as people will not work to protect them under human rights laws. Thus, the Male Gaze facilitates the systemic worldwide rape, torture, and murder of women, by laying the attitudes and mind-sets needed for governments and organizations ruled by men to ostensibly condone the abuse of women.

If You are a Good Guy:
You will not objectify women, period!

Out of respect for her humanity, you will not glare at the breasts, ass or any other part of any woman's body. At no point will you judge a woman, favorably or unfavorably, by her physical body, ignoring the multifaceted person in front of you who happens to have a female body. And if you resent a woman's mind for preventing you from having sexual access to her body, you will do us all favor by shoving your head (either one) into a wood chipper.

Part 1 - "Adult" Halloween
Part 2 - The Secular and the Religious Celebrate the Pornification of Christmas

The Male Gaze (Part 1):
"Adult" Halloween

"If you get picked up by the fuzz at the local middle school...we never met."
~ScarePros.com, referring to their lineup of costumes for adults.


If an office mate's Halloween party is any indication, there is absolutely no distinction between a female adult's Halloween costume and an "adult" movie [1].

And if the Halloween costume industry is any indication, the distinction between a little girl's Halloween costume and an "adult" movie is also blurring fast.

To see what I mean, take a look yourself at the shit they're doing to girls and women. (NOTE: All costumes shown were labeled as Halloween costumes, not lingerie [2].)


Minnie Mouse (Fun Warehouse and The Garment District):

The Little Mermaid (Disney and The Garment District):




















French Maid (FancyDress and The Garment District):


















Cheetah (Amazon.com and HalloweenAdventures):





















Snow White (Disney and ScarePros.com):





















Rainbow Brite (CostumeCraze and The Garment District) [3] :





















Wendy (MissEm, BuyCostumes.com and BuyCostumes.com) [4] :






















There are hundreds of other examples, but I'm going to vomit if I do any more.

Whether the adult costume designers are copying the kid's costumes, or vice-versa, the result is the same: little girls' Halloween costumes are being heavily sexualized in an effort to indoctrinate girls into a pornulated future while they are young and impressionable. This is very similar to the disturbing trends of Japanese cosplay, which encourage pedophilia [5], female slavery [6], and the dehumanization of women.



[1] That's not entirely true, as there is one distinction: the office guys have to pay to see "adult" movies, while seeing the genitalia of their office coworkers on Halloween is free. (And don't even get me started on the bullshit of calling pornography an "adult" entertainment. [See #61 - The Privilege of Vocabulary].)
[2] The costumes labeled as lingerie are far worse.
[3] The adult version of the Rainbow Brite Costume is called "Rainbow Bride" because brides and sexual slaves are synonymous in Dude's minds [See #10 - Privilege of Marriage].
[4] Costume designers put a lot of effort into carefully transitioning girls from child motifs, through the misogynist-ladened teen years, and into the pornunlated outfits they're expected to wear as adults.
[5] To quote Tara Meacham at Associated Content:

"Young children, for example, may be attracted to the idea of dressing up as a Sailor Moon character (Sailor Moon is a popular anime in which the main characters are school girls). However, some young men, teenaged and older, hold a sexual interest for young and mature women who dress up as these characters. Sailor Moon in society, therefore, serves as quality entertainment for children, but also as a fetish for some adults."

[6] The thankfully defunct iMaid cosplay cafe in Toronto is one of the more overt examples of men glorifying female slavery:

"Asian girls dressed in revealing, frilly maid outfits, who will greet customers with a "Welcome home, master," bowing deeply, hands clasped. In one cafe, maids get down on their knees to stir the cream and sugar into the customer's coffee."

Copyright June 2008 by F*ck M*sculinity