Shalloween Isn't Just Our Fault!

[CrazyMedic]

I miss the good ol' days where you could grab a goblet of wine sprinkle in some lead give your servant a swift punch in the face and rape your fellow man till dawn, wait I am thinking of christmas.

 

[mrpenguinismyhomeboy]

Why is it a bad thing they dress all slutty?

 

[Legion]

What it used to be? About dressing yourself up silly and stuffing candy into your tummy till you feel sick. So it moved on from gluttony to lust, huge leap of faith indeed.

Halloween is one of the silliest hollidays ever, so there is no way it could become shallow.

Wrong. Like all major holidays in the Western world it was stolen by Christianity from Paganism and had it's meaning change. Then later it was stolen again by the shops in order to make money.

[link]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain[/link]

Was Halloween, the fest in the USA, ever about that stuff in the article? No, it wasn't. Just because a holiday derives from something else during the times, it doens't carry on it's meaning. If it would, christmas would be a roman-sun-god-festival. For 99% of all people that celebrate the holiday, halloween hasn't been about anything more than costumes and sweets.

Meaning is asigned through people, not through wikipedia.

I bolded the parts that are important in our exchange, and you will hopefully see why I said what I did.

You said what is used to be like, I pointed out how it actually started.

America didn't invent the holiday. Even if they had it wouldn't matter, because it didn't begin in the USA as anything like what it is like now anyway.

 

[Kurokami]

I read an article in my school newspaper today that complained about the sluttiness of the vast majority of female costumes available in stores, renaming the holiday to Shalloween, hence the title of this post. While I more than agree with the woman who wrote it that this holiday has become a bastardization of what it used to be (and what it should be), I don't agree with her saying that this is the fault of men.

While sexy clothing has never done anything for me, I'm not about to deny that my gender is a fan of the looking at the pretty ladies in revealing garments. There are magazines that sell like hotcakes just based on the fact that men like to look at something they aren't allowed to touch. It's a point of shame for me as a man, but I refuse to believe that the sexualization of Halloween is our fault.

I know some women agree with me. I overheard two girls talking the other day, and one of them remarked that she loved Halloween because it was her excuse to "totally slut it up with no one caring and no consequences". So clearly women like showing off just as much as men like to stare. Granted, these two girls in particular probably had a collective IQ less than 100, but still.

But enough from me. What do you think? Has Halloween become too sexualized? Wait, don't answer that, I already know it has. Whose fault is it then? And how can we get the scary back?

Women are generally their biggest critics, when they dress like sluts it's to show up other women from what I've heard, and if its to please us then great... where's the problem? I personally don't consider sluttiness to be a bad thing, after all, a man who's getting it frequently isn't looked down upon, a woman doesn't bother me either providing she doesn't look the stereotype.

In other words...

Why is it a bad thing they dress all slutty?

This.

 

[Bon_Clay]

I've actually noticed this in recent years too, the only costume women seem to think of is different themes of "slut". Not sure if this is a very recent trend or if I just didn't notice it when I was younger. I don't bother dressing up anymore but if I did I would at least think of something interesting.

I guess they just take it as a chance to dress slutty and have an excuse for it and not be called a slut? I don't really mind either way.