“What are you dressing up as for Halloween?” While witches, ghosts, vampires, and mummies used to be the normal response to that question, today, every costume you can imagine is for sale in Halloween mega-shops and online retailers. Gone are the days depicted in my favorite Halloween special, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, when [...]
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“Sexy” Rosie the Riveter
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Sexism, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Beauty Redefined, costume, halloween, HollabackPhilly, over sexualization, Rosie the Riveter, Rosie's Daughters, So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids, Spark Summit, Take Back Halloween Body Positive Costume Contest on October 31, 2011, | 2 Comments »
Tricks and Treats: The Sexualization of Halloween
Posted in Sex Discrimination, tagged halloween on October 30, 2009, | 4 Comments »
Halloween has changed since I was a kid. It was the one night of the year that my parents allowed my sisters and me to stay out after dark, and we freely roamed for hours on end. Today, more parents take their kids trick-or-treating at shopping malls than in their own neighborhoods. My biggest worry [...]
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