Happy Halloween! The LA Times has decided to celebrate the unholiest of holidays with a convoluted op-ed from conservative ideologue Charlotte Allen using Halloween as an excuse to bash both sluts and slutwalks. Because, you know, if you dress like a slut – whether to protest rape or to go to a Halloween party – it’s like you’re begging to be raped. Bad feminists! Bad Halloween revelers dressed as sexy nurses!
Here are a few of the more coherent passages from the piece:
[T]he SlutWalk feminists are in denial of a reality that is perfectly obvious to both the women who favor “sexy” for Halloween parties and (although perhaps not consciously) the SlutWalkers themselves. The reality is that men’s sexual responses are highly susceptible to visual stimuli, and women, who are also sexual beings, like to generate those stimuli by displaying as much of their attractive selves as social mores or their own personal moral codes permit. … It’s no wonder that SlutWalks have quickly outstripped (as it were) Take Back the Night as anti-rape protest. Women get another chance besides Halloween to dress up like prostitutes!
Just watch out, ladies, because dressing sexy is like waving a red flag in front of a bull, with your wallet hanging out!
[T]he vast majority of rape victims are under age 30 — that is, when women are at their peak of desirability. …
[T]he fact that rapists tend to target young women rather than grandmotherly types suggests that in the real rape culture (in contrast to the imaginary rape culture of some feminist ideology), the faux-hos of Halloween and their SlutWalker counterparts marching in their underwear — like a man walking at night with a bulging wallet — should be careful about where they flash their treasure.
So thank you, Charlotte Allen, for once again showing just why the Slutwalks are necessary in the first place.
Jill at Feministe has an excellent response to Allen’s nonsense, which points out that while, yes, younger women are more likely to be victims of rape,
Younger people are also the most likely group to be the victims of aggravated, non-sexual assault. … In fact, younger people are victimized by violent crime more often than older folks as a general rule. A person between the ages of 12 and 24 is six times more likely to be the victim of a robbery than a person over the age of 50; about half of people who report being the victims of aggravated assault are under the age of 25. Men are much more likely than women to be the victims of violent crime. In every age group, black people are the most likely to be the victims of violent crime.
So yes, it is true that younger women are more likely to be targeted for sexual assault than older women. But it’s not because of The Sexy — unless hormones and hard-ons are what are causing criminals to choose their (mostly male) targets for robbery and assault also.
So, really, the only really safe costuming strategy for young people on Halloween, regardless of gender, is to dress up like an old white lady. Might I suggest Dame Judi Dench?
XD
So NWO ignores the stuff Zhinxy said that was on point, but he HAS to dig his own grave and save when it comes to his “Jewish ppl are behind everything!” theories xD
No, Owly, I do not propose drawing and quartering anyone. I’m expressing surpise that he a) figured out what gender I was AT ALL and b) decided to go ahead and try to pick me up without seeing what I even looked like, in as uncomfortable a situation as a 45 second elevator ride to boot.
(Not going into how rude the elevator thing is right now!)
Either he had been dared to come on to absolutely every single woman he ran into that day or he had a snowsuit fetish. In the first case it’s clearly my fault for existing while female, while in the second I should have known better than to wear my slutty slutty parka in public when it was 20 below. How COULD I?
Lol Holly! You should be the NWO to English translator here.
Judaism is now a nationality. This is going in the Book O’ Larnin’.
Indeed. How could she have avoided this NWO? What should women wear?
You see I’m an equalist. Either every nationality gets a defense league, or nobody gets one. Also, you don’t get a free pass because of your nationaity.
I thought you were a Libertarian NWO… ppl can get whatever leagues they want to form. xD Now you want the state to mandate and create defense leagues? XD Sounds like Affirmative Action to me NWO xD “HEY THEY HAVE A LEAGUE, BIG DADDY GOV PLEASE GIVE ME ONE!”
XDDDDD
Wowwww….. NWO is SUCCCHHHH a Libertarian huh? XDDD
What should women wear!?
Haha, I pushed the Anti-Semitism button and now NWO gets to conveniently forget he was blaming rape victims.
…I’m not sure if that’s even “convenient” or not, for him. It’s not like he was feeling bad about it.
The JDL is an extremist group and doesn’t have the backing of a ton of mainstream Jews. The mainstream one is the ADL. And you can start your own, if you like. Both the ADL and the JDL were started by Jews to protect their own interests, not just given as gift-wrapped presents from some unspecified authority. Whichever government agency is in charge of giving people fully-developed pre-fabricated social organizations (how would that even work?) as gifts.
NWO won’t tell us what women should wear… He doesn’t strike me as someone who would know anything about women’s clothing. Should we wear men’s clothes?
NWO, how did you feel and react last time a man propositioned you in an elevator? We need to know the proper behaviour!
What should women wear?
@Joanna it depends on their age
Women and Girls Age 16+ should wear giant garbage bags
Girls under 16 should wear slave Leia outfits
That includes all the Girls under 0 years old, which to NWO includes: fetuses, zygotes, eggs and sperm, molecules, atoms… etc xD
Okay NWO – Let’s take a look at Shabby Apple a non-denominational modest fashion companies catering mostly to the mainstream/evangelical Christian and LDS market.
If you just tell me whether or not these outfits are slutty I PROMISE I WILL NEVER ASK YOU TO NAME WHAT EXACTLY IT WAS YOU INVENTED EVER AGAIN! That’s a GREAT deal, NWO!
http://www.shabbyapple.com/p-1147-andes-skirt.aspx
That outfit, slutty or not?
What about JenMagazine and JenClothing, for the modest Mormon girl?
http://www.jenmagazine.com/category/modest-clothing/
The fashion advice? Turning little daughters of the Mormon congregation into painted harlots?
How about just these two outfits:
http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-77635605222520_2177_3685547
http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-77635605222520_2178_9528013
Come on NWO – Dresses catering to the conservative relgious sorts, meeting the LDS purity guidelines. SLUTTY OR NOT SLUTTY. REMEMBER, YOU DON’T HAVE TO TELL ME WHAT THE HECK YOU INVENTED BY NAME IF YOU ANSWER!
And if they don’t sell Slave Leia costumes small enough for your zygote, knit them! What do you mean you don’t knit? What else are women good for?
What about JenMagazine and JenClothing, for the modest Mormon girl?
For NWO, there’s no such thing XD Mormons are FARRRRR too slutty for him xD
Mmmmm, shiny, black, plastic garbage bags. Sexy!
Shiny and black attract too much male attention. They have to be dull and green!
Using poster board and contruction paper my husband and I made masked modeled after korean temple dragons. The theme at Witches Ball this year is totems and I identify with reptiles. Looking for a good lizard costume idea I ran across these images.
http://www.scissorcraft.com/dragons.htm
way sexy huh!
@kristinmh
“(Not going into how rude the elevator thing is right now!)”
Do you, as a woman, get to decide what action a man does is inappropriate? Than I, as a man, get to decide what action a woman takes is inappropriate.
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@Holly Pervocracy
Both the ADL and the JDL were started by Jews to protect their own interests, not just given as gift-wrapped presents from some unspecified authority.
What exactly is a “Jewish interest” that differs from any other nationality? Racism is racism dearie. Reguardless of wether you’re putting another race down or elevating your own race up.
Bloke walks into the doctor’s office, wearing nothing but clingwrap. Doc says, “Well, I can see you’re nuts!”
Love your costume, Ami!
Green garbage bags! Bah! Haven’t you read the tale of Sir Gawain? Clearly green is the color of the seductress!
I was covered head to toe for my costume. No cleavage, not even slutty ankles were showing! *gasp* When I was walking back from a party this weekend two men on the street still called out. Also some (presumably drunk) guys in a car yelled something unintelligible as they drove by too.
Assholes are still going to be assholes regardless of what you’re wearing. Of course according to Slavey logic, it was probably my fault for being a woman and daring to be outdoors anyway.
TY Hippodameia!
Hey AvoidyPantsNWO XD
What exactly is a “Jewish interest” that differs from any other nationality? Racism is racism dearie. Reguardless of wether you’re putting another race down or elevating your own race up.
If you want to defend your own race, go ahead NWO XD
@Joanna
Hey Joanna, men are stoopid.
In response, I repeat, women are shit.
Continue with your hatred.
Lauralot | October 31, 2011 at 11:36 pm
Green garbage bags! Bah! Haven’t you read the tale of Sir Gawain? Clearly green is the color of the seductress!
Yeah but that was in another time period, and those don’t exist b/c they would ruin NWO’s unifying theory of everything which seems to think all sorts of history and cultures didn’t exist XD