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FALL 2013ROBERT WONSER

Gender and Halloween

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Halloween Costumes: Then and Now

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Halloween Costumes: Then and Now

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Halloween Costumes: Then and Now

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Halloween Costumes: Then and Now

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Boy and Girl “Toddler” Cookie Monster Costumes

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Gender and Kids Costumes

Boys will be boys and girls will be girls….

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When Sexy Overtakes All Reason

Sexy ChuckySexy NemoSexy Brian (from Family Guy)Sexy Crayon

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Sexy Femininity and Gender Inequality

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A Halloween Gender Binary

How dressing up at Halloween becomes a way to ‘do gender’.

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A Halloween Gender Binary

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A Halloween Gender Binary

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A Halloween Gender Binary

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A Halloween Gender Binary

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Sexy ‘Body Bag’ Costume

Although she doesn’t have much of a personality, she is still drop dead gorgeous in this body bag dress, I’m sure you have the personality and in this you will be gorgeous. Stretch satin mini dress with hood and a two way zipper front which can zip all the way up the hood, this is sleeveless and has a vest style finish at the back. One breast has an outline of a body printed on to it an PROPERTY OF THE CORONER. Pack includes Coroners name tag fitted to a choker Jane Doe and matching fingerless gloves. (3 piece set). Fabrics are listed as 95% polyester and 5% spandex. and other accessories are available separately.

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The Sexualization of Children: Harem Girl

What?!

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What Do Sexy Halloween Costumes for Men Look Like?

Rest Assured men:

… the joke is that he is a perfect candidate for casual sex (the “one night stand”)

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What Do Sexy Halloween Costumes for Men Look Like?

While women’s sexy costumes are typically decidedly sexy (tight with lots of exposed skin), these men’s “sexy” costumes are simply suggestive. In two cases, they “suggest” that men should be sexually serviced or played with (the “breathalyzer” and the “ring toss”):

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What Do Sexy Halloween Costumes for Men Look Like?

The “Hustler”

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Men Dressing up as Fat Women, cuz it’s hilarious?

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“Sexy” What?!

Snow OwlGnomeSexy Maccaw

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More “Sexy” What?!

Sexy ErnieSexy HamburgerSexyChinese Take-out

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Archives: Halloween

More Halloween Costumes!http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2007/10

/30/halloween-costumes/

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Heteronormativity and Halloween Costumes

“heteronormativity” refers to a persistent privileging of “opposite”-sex couples and the relative invisibility of people who partner with others of their “same” sex.  For people who aren’t heterosexual, these Halloween costumes are just one more example of how they aren’t recognized or validated by our society.  

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Vintage Ad

While certainly encouraging women to play to the male gaze, suggested bewitching men instead of exposing as much flesh as possible: