Letters to the Editor
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Oh Joy another Broadsheet Fashion Item
Really, Halloween Costumes?
I think...just going out on a limb here, that the costume's name is meant as joke, and if anything lampoon the notion of sexy anarexia.
Come on Broadsheet, you used to be cool.
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Just Not Clever
I'm offended that the costume is sort of lame.
Instead of a skeleton it should be like one of those beach cover-ups with a chick in a bikini printed on it only with the bikini body all emaciated.
THEN it would be actually offensive and we could legitimately have this conversation.
As it stands, it just means that someone has invented a Whore Skeleton costume... which is probably the last costume to be officially Whor-ified.
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Lame, but...
Trudy, I'm with you, up to a point. I think it should have the emaciated body on it, but not only because it's lame. Right now, here's what's going to happen:
"Cute - a whore skeleton. Wait, what's that? Tape measure? Anorexia, that's FUNNY! Ha ha ha! It's so cute!" Essentially trivializing the whole thing. Which is neither funny nor thought-provoking.
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trudy b nailed it
"As it stands, it just means that someone has invented a Whore Skeleton costume... which is probably the last costume to be officially Whor-ified."
I'm also astounded by the whorification of Halloween costumes. Some of them are to be expected now: the Naughty Nurse, French Maid, cheerleaders, cats and bunnies. But Sexy Skeleton?? Also on that website: Sexy Taxi Driver and Sexy Mental Patient. Wow.
What's next? Sexy Septic-Tank Technician?
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And now, no more wondering...
what Ann Coulter will be for Halloween...
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Halloween is about getting up close to death
I think it's absolutely appropriate to wear an anorexia costume on Halloween, since anorexia is very much connected to death.
In the Dia de Los Muertos tradition, the female embodiment of death is called La Flaca, the skinny woman. So there's even a precedent for this in Mexican culture.
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interesting...
What I find interesting is that they probably don't have costumes like "Sexy Cancer Patient" or "Smokin' Cerebral Palsy Person"...
But when it comes to mental illness or anorexia (also a mental illness fundamentally) all bets are off. shows that these diseases are still stigmatized and not taken seriously.
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it's Halloween.
When I see that, I see just about spin off of the old-school skeleton costume that's been around for decades.
Nothing new to see here.
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Save the money
And make one yourself. The best "chic/whore" costume I've ever had the pleasure to accompany was a peep-show. She had a box, painted black with red velvet curtains and big fake tits on over a t-shirt. People (I have to say people since we wound up down in the castro for that Halloween--most terrifying night of my life) would put money in the slot, and then get to peep thru the curtains. Good family entertainment.
The second best: A mushroom cloud. Took lots of work to make, and was fairly anti-social since all I could do was stand in the middle of the room and drink beer thru a looooong straw.
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She's hot, she can show up to my party anytime.
Only the ladies who are jealous of and her smoking hot body are the ones bitching.
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Tits are big and fake
but she is HAWT!
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I'm Offended At Being Offended About Everything
We're primates. We like fart jokes. We like poop jokes. We like sex jokes. We like to make fun of people who are different from us for whatever reason. But mostly, we like sex jokes.
No one likes being in the group being made fun of. I can get that.
However, I am sick and tired of people rising to umbrage on behalf of everyone else. I am also sick and tired of people who make a big show of being enlightened and all 21st century who get offended like some prim Victorian matron over sexual content because it somehow oppresses someone who doesn't feel particularly oppressed by the joke.
Forget the tut tutting and bring on the tarts and vicars!
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Wow, She's really hot!
Broadsheet needs way more pictures of hot chicks!
I like the fact that she's kind of chubby too. I usually like women a little thinner, a little younger. But look at her boobs! Woohoo!
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"I like the fact that she's kind of chubby too. "
Whoa, dude, you are living in a different universe than the rest of us. In no real world at all could that woman be called "chubby." Thanks for encouraging anorexia. And there is no way in that shot to conclude the breasts are fake either, they could just be pushed in and up a lot. And hawt? My man, you don't know hott.
On the other hand, I think the costume is kinda cute and funny, and not worth getting worked up over. Halloween these days is all about having an opportunity to exercise some bad taste, and poop on anybody that wants to get all umbraged over it.
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are you SURE she's hot, Ben?
Sure she's not a butterface? Because this would be a major first for you, actually admitting that there is a woman on this planet who lives up to your physical standards. Take a good look at her pic one last time---remember, she's not a male lacrosse player.
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C'mon Canuck
She IS HAWWT!
Look at the hourglass figure and that juicy lower lip and that stare like she is going to do some nasty thing to you once she gets her hands on you. Her face has some personality and even that neck thing works on her.
But even if the tits are real, they look fake, which turns me off. I like the long legs though too and the way she is standing with the knees closer together is sexy to me.
C'mon, she is HawWWWWT
And I KNOW from hot, I have lived in Austin nearly ten years, where even Angeleno actors come into our town and their jaws drop at the girls here.
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Brightstar, you're a kid!
Witness: "She IS HAWWT!"
Do you wear baseball caps backwards?
Wear cargo shirts so baggy they look like cargo skirts?
Have some tribal tat on your pasty skin, as if you'd undergone some manhood ritual?
I no longer want to clobber you. I just want to muss your hair and bake you some cookies.
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Someone will buy it
I'm sure this costume will sell...So goes sex and capitalism. Personally, I'm so sick of women being whored for all those boardroom pimps. Pick a product, pair it with a woman in tight spandex, throw in some breasts and booty (unless your talking about breast feeding moms of course!) and what da ya got? money, money, money, MO-NEY!. Beer & sex, music & sex, food & sex, pick noun any noun. It all makes sense right? If all you're looking for is more bucks, there's plenty of gullible guys out there who are easily duped into buying whatever comes with some boobs attached and In the case of this costume some girls who may think that buying it will make them look like that happy sexy anna-rexia on the cover and thus attracting that (shallow) man of their dreams...I'm just glad some women are deciding to reject the commercialized and plasticized version of female that these pimps are whoring (the majority of those advertising and business execs are men right?) I say make your own costume and stop giving money to all these creeps.