{"id":15026,"date":"2014-10-24T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=15026"},"modified":"2014-10-24T23:46:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T04:46:12","slug":"men-dressing-up-as-fat-women-hilarious-and-disgusting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/10\/24\/men-dressing-up-as-fat-women-hilarious-and-disgusting\/","title":{"rendered":"Men Dressing Up as Fat Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flashback Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n

An excellent piece of\u00a0evidence that femininity is hilarious or ridiculous in U.S. culture, or even frightening or disgusting, is the fact that men use the category “woman” as a Halloween costume. We laugh when we see men dressed up as women because how ridiculous, right<\/em>?\u00a0Women do not generally dress up like a generic man on Halloween because adopting masculinity is an everyday things for us. It’s valued, not mocked.<\/p>\n

Many costume manufacturers (or homemade costume makers, for that matter)\u00a0add fat hatred to the mix. Because there is nothing more disgusting and hilarious, we are told, than a fat woman. Except, perhaps, a fat woman who fails to be properly humiliated.<\/p>\n

The costume manufacturers know this and are trafficking in this hatred on purpose. Here are some examples, sent in by Michaela N. and Shane M., from<\/a> several<\/a> different<\/a>\u00a0online<\/a>\u00a0costume<\/a>\u00a0stores<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"34509_5\"<\/p>\n

\"15839c-beauty-queen\"<\/p>\n

\"54793\"\"2\"<\/a> \"3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Pamela Anderson’s character on Baywatch wasn’t\u00a0fat. This reveals that the costume manufacturers aren’t just making costumes that let people dress up as fat others, they’re adding fatness as a joke.<\/p>\n

Halloween is a disturbing fun house mirror, showing us what we really think about each other.<\/p>\n

Originally posted in 2010. Cross-posted at The Huffington Post<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flashback Friday. An excellent piece of\u00a0evidence that femininity is hilarious or ridiculous in U.S. culture, or even frightening or disgusting, is the fact that men use the category “woman” as a Halloween costume. We laugh when we see men dressed up as women because how ridiculous, right?\u00a0Women do not generally dress up like a generic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":64586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[244,55,254,283],"class_list":["post-15026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fat","tag-gender","tag-holidays","tag-prejudicediscrimination"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/10\/218.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15026"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64587,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15026\/revisions\/64587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}