Halloween Costume

[Isgrimnur]

IndieWire

Sexy versions of pop culture costumes are a proud Halloween tradition going all the way back to the first sexy pilgrims. But the clothing provider Yandy.com acknowledged Friday that they crossed a line when offering up their twist on a 2018 pop culture favorite: the Sexy Handmaid. Or, in their non-copyright-infringing language, the “Brave Red Maiden,” costing just $64.95.
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The costume attracted no shortage of criticism online, since it created a sexualized version of a costume that, in the world of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” represents the literal sexual enslavement of women by the government — not the most erotic of concepts. The response was perhaps best summed up by a retweet from Margaret Atwood, the author of the original novel:
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[Daehawk]

Oh lord this new world.

Anyways hard to believe Halloween is here again. Seems just a couple months back it was here. Time moves too fast.

[dbt1949]

This year I'm going as a redneck.

[ImLawBoy]

This year I'm going as a redneck.

I'm not giving you candy if you don't dress up.

[Kraken]

When do kids trick-or-treat? Saturday the 27th, Wed. the 31st, or both?

[dbt1949]

This year I'm going as a redneck.

I'm not giving you candy if you don't dress up.

r.


I look like an older fatter version of my avatar.

[Daehawk]

When do kids trick-or-treat? Saturday the 27th, Wed. the 31st, or both?

Why would you trick or treat in the 27th?

[coopasonic]

When do kids trick-or-treat? Saturday the 27th, Wed. the 31st, or both?

Why would you trick or treat in the 27th?

Probably because Halloween is a school night this year. But it doesn't matter, Halloween is more important than school!

[LawBeefaroni]

When do kids trick-or-treat? Saturday the 27th, Wed. the 31st, or both?

The 27th is all parties. I think we have 3 and a sleepover.

[dbt1949]

You're going to a Halloween sleepover?

[Isgrimnur]

In Nevada, Halloween was a day off from school. It’s Statehood Day.

[YellowKing]

Probably because Halloween is a school night this year. But it doesn't matter, Halloween is more important than school!

I never understood the argument to move it for school because Halloween falls on a school night 71% of the time. Yet people around here always ask as if it's the exception rather than the rule.

[Kraken]

Probably because Halloween is a school night this year. But it doesn't matter, Halloween is more important than school!

I never understood the argument to move it for school because Halloween falls on a school night 71% of the time. Yet people around here always ask as if it's the exception rather than the rule.

Parents of small children who want to take them around while it's still light out have trouble getting home from work on time. I'm going to assume that they will be out Saturday night with the main event being on Wednesday. Actually, this Sat. is supposed to be a washout here...so Wed. it is.

[GreenGoo]

Literally no one trick or treats any night except the 31st around here.

No. One.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that different areas have different customs, but it's still strange to hear it.

[El Guapo]

I've never seen trick or treating in my neighborhood on any night other than the 31st. Not sure I've seen that in the greater Boston area either, for that matter.

[Blackhawk]

Trick-or-treating is completely dead around here. When I was a kid in this general area, you'd be out all night and would end up with a grocery sack of candy. When the kids were little, we'd go to every house participating, be out for an hour and a half and get a half pumpkin bucket full. The last time they went trick or treating, we were out for 30 minutes and they got a half a dozen pieces from the four houses that were actually involved. It doesn't seem to have picked up in the four years or so since the kids stopped going.

The kids never understood why trick-or-treating was actually supposed to be fun. It didn't help when it went from something you did on Halloween night after dark to something you did for three nights straight while it was still light.

[raydude]

I live in a townhome subdivision with tons of families and Halloween trick or treating has become something of a major event. We have mini parks every few blocks and the neighbors of those parks decorate them, dress up, and man the parks as a mini-theme park. One of them is Peter pan themed, with a wooden ship and kids dressed up as lost boys and adults as different Neverland characters. Another park is zombie themed, with the appropriate zombies roaming in the middle. Kids and adults just walk around the park edges and take in the costumes and displays. And there's always someone handing out candy.

In fact, every house seems to want to give away candy and people even come in from outside the neighborhood because they know the candy flows like water here.

[ImLawBoy]

A lot of the suburban communities around here officially schedule trick-or-treating on the nearest Saturday. Chicago itself doesn't do that - it's too big to coordinate that, I guess. Weekend trick-or-treating would certainly make things easier logistically, as we're trying to figure out how to give the kids a decent shot at gathering some loot while still planning dinner and getting everyone to bed a reasonable hour.

But at least this frees us up to go Spooky Science at the Museum of Science and Industry on Saturday. The kids always love going to the "rocket museum", as they call it.

[LawBeefaroni]

You're going to a Halloween sleepover?

I wish. Dropping the kiddo off at one, putting in some time, and then moving on. The final party includes a chili cook-off and it's in walking distance (no driving!) so I'm hoping to be drunky and farty by midnight.

[Jeff V]

Our subdivision has a 3 hour window from 4-7 on Halloween. Some people have reported as many as 300 kids; l don't think we had nearly that many last year but we did run out of candy bought for this purpose and needed to break out the emergency gummies to tide us over. This year I'll likely overbuy (especially if the current forecast of rainy plays out); but any surplus can follow my MiL back to the Philippines at the end of November.

[GreenGoo]

I live in a townhome subdivision with tons of families and Halloween trick or treating has become something of a major event. We have mini parks every few blocks and the neighbors of those parks decorate them, dress up, and man the parks as a mini-theme park. One of them is Peter pan themed, with a wooden ship and kids dressed up as lost boys and adults as different Neverland characters. Another park is zombie themed, with the appropriate zombies roaming in the middle. Kids and adults just walk around the park edges and take in the costumes and displays. And there's always someone handing out candy.

In fact, every house seems to want to give away candy and people even come in from outside the neighborhood because they know the candy flows like water here.

Awesome. Sounds like a great community to be a part of.

[Toe]

Stuart and mother halloween costumes

[em2nought]

So cute! Trigger your neighbors, and take their candy! So much winning!

[LawBeefaroni]

Well, one of them is happy at least. Hope it was worth the "likes."

[em2nought]

Well, one of them is happy at least. Hope it was worth the "likes."

I think she's just "in character".

[Carpet_pissr]

When do kids trick-or-treat? Saturday the 27th, Wed. the 31st, or both?

Need to budget time to put the mines out?

[Kraken]

When do kids trick-or-treat? Saturday the 27th, Wed. the 31st, or both?

Need to budget time to put the mines out?

Need to keep my cats indoors, and make it our night out. Halloween is notoriously dangerous for black cats.

[Zarathud]

I'm hoping to be drunky and farty by midnight.

Horrifyingly awesome.

[Daehawk]

When do kids trick-or-treat? Saturday the 27th, Wed. the 31st, or both?

Need to budget time to put the mines out?

Need to keep my cats indoors, and make it our night out. Halloween is notoriously dangerous for black cats.

We had a beautiful long hair black cat. I brought Mrs Marple in every Halloween to be safe. Then about 5 years ago it was 2 weeks before Halloween and I was already thinking about bringing her in when she didn't show up to eat. She never did. No idea what happened.

[Kraken]

When do kids trick-or-treat? Saturday the 27th, Wed. the 31st, or both?

Need to budget time to put the mines out?

Need to keep my cats indoors, and make it our night out. Halloween is notoriously dangerous for black cats.

We had a beautiful long hair black cat. I brought Mrs Marple in every Halloween to be safe. Then about 5 years ago it was 2 weeks before Halloween and I was already thinking about bringing her in when she didn't show up to eat. She never did. No idea what happened.

I try to bring our guys in every night. Tiberius always cooperates. Every now and then Augustus decides that he's staying out. He lets me know when he's going to do that by coming to the door, then turning and walking away. I worry that one of these mornings he just won't reappear. But, what can you do? Imprison them forever? Gus gonna be Gus.

I do confine them when there's a storm coming, and on Halloween, and on the 4th. They don't like it but sometimes you just gotta say "because I'm the human, and I said so." Anyway, I'm keeping them in on both Saturday and Wednesday.

[Kraken]

Literally no one trick or treats any night except the 31st around here.

No. One.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that different areas have different customs, but it's still strange to hear it.

The Saturday Halloween Movement

Leave it to the calendar to put a major cramp in trick-or-treating.

Halloween falls on a Wednesday this year. Hump day, smack in the middle of the workweek. Hoping to help a child put the finishing touches on a Super Mario outfit? Better not get caught at the office. Planning to turn in early for school the next day? Better put down the Skittles.

A solution to this irksome scheduling has been suggested by the Halloween Industry Association, which represents companies whose interest in ensuring Americans can properly spook one another each year is hardly opaque. The group, which also calls itself the Halloween and Costume Association, is petitioning President Trump to move Halloween to the last Saturday of October.

It’s called the ‘‘Saturday Halloween Movement,’’ and it might just be the cause that can unite the country.

Who, after all, even knows why Halloween is observed on Oct. 31? The timing of the celebration reflects its origins in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when ghosts of the dead were believed to return and walk the earth at the end of the harvest and on the cusp of winter, as the History Channel explains.

The Halloween industry says there are now more pressing concerns.

‘‘It’s time for a Safer, Longer, Stress-Free Celebration!’’ the petition declares.

The petition marshals some grave statistics to prove its point. Each year, there are 3,800 Halloween-related injuries, the industry warns. Most parents don’t incorporate ‘‘high-visibility aids’’ into their outfits, the petition notes, and most children don’t carry flashlights. Seventy percent of parents leave their children all alone to trick-or-treat, according to the industry, while more than half of millennials say Halloween is their favorite holiday. Why, the Halloween Industry is asking, ‘‘cram it into 2 rushed evening weekday hours when it deserves a full day!?!’’

Nearly 6,000 signatories seem to agree.

It won't happen here today due to the weather...but Halloweekend is a thing. Or will be if the industry has its way.

[Z-Corn]

I for one won't stand for the continued attacks on the pagan way of life. Samhain is October 31st and that's the way it needs to stay. The Souls of The Dead don't care about our calendar conveniences.

Next they'll be trying to convince us Baby Jesus wasn't born on December 25th just to give themselves a 3 day weekend every year.

[Blackhawk]

I know at least a dozen people who would be saying exactly that. Then again, they might appreciate being able to do ritual outside without trick-or-treaters...

[Jeff V]

Saturday, downtown Aurora had trick-or-treating at the few participating businesses still there (no shit...there are entire blocks of vacant store fronts or not-kid-friendly smoke shops). Took the kids there anyway en route to a Halloween party. My princess refused to let her shoes touch pavement unless we were at a welcoming business (so I had to carry her) and despite saying otherwise my son really couldn't see well through his Spiderman cowl.

[AWS260]

The kid went Kerbal this year.

[Daehawk]

Looks more Motorcycle rider to me.

[naednek]

Looks more Motorcycle rider to me.

wrong kid...

[Jaymann]

And that kid looks like he's from Halo.

[Daehawk]

Wait wait its around here somewhere. Oh here it is .......

[Blackhawk]

Wait wait its around here somewhere. Oh here it is .......

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