“So, what kind of slut are you being for Halloween?” a male friend of mine asked me this week.
I wasn’t taken aback by his question, because it’s a reasonable one. Nowadays, Halloween, for women, is basically all about being as slutty-looking as can be.
I know this isn’t exactly news. Many of us have made this obvious observation. A character in the film Mean Girls summarized the situation quite astutely when she explained: “In the regular world, Halloween is when children dress up in costumes and beg for candy. In girl-world, Halloween is the one night a year a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it. The hardcore girls just wear lingerie and some form of animal ears.”