{"id":262,"date":"2007-10-30T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/10\/30\/halloween-costumes\/"},"modified":"2009-11-29T14:50:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T19:50:33","slug":"halloween-costumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/10\/30\/halloween-costumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween costumes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Newsweek<\/em> had an article<\/a> today wondering if girl’s Halloween costumes might be too risque. I wasn’t surprised (I remember being shocked when I saw young girls dressed up as Spice Girls in 1998) so I decided to look around the Internet to find other questionable costumes. Not surprisingly, Halloween costumes are markers of not only gender and heterosexuality, but of race and class as well.<\/p>\n

Let’s take children’s “occupational” costumes, for example. Here are some for girls: The French maid, nurse, and cheerleader costumes were the most prevalent.<\/div>\n
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And what about occupations for boys?<\/div>\n

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<\/a><\/a><\/a>And look at how race is marked with some of the children’s costume models (2 cats, and a dancer):
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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.”
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And now let’s move on to teenage costumes. Here are some particularly popular ones for teen girls– sexy devils and sexy angels.
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And some teen girl “occupation” costumes (prisoner, referee, navy):
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And of course there are teen bunnies– “Hunny Bunny Teen” and “Classic Playboy Bunny”:
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And what do teen boys get to dress up as? Scary clowns, murdering maniacs, and pimps.
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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.
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Anyway, happy Halloween!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newsweek had an article today wondering if girl’s Halloween costumes might be too risque. I wasn’t surprised (I remember being shocked when I saw young girls dressed up as Spice Girls in 1998) so I decided to look around the Internet to find other questionable costumes. Not surprisingly, Halloween costumes are markers of not only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[155,223,55,2099,2096,2087,254,778,285,1760,120,291,309,76],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animals","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-holidays","tag-intersectionality","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-sex","tag-sex-work","tag-warmilitary","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","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\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17112,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/17112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}