Where's your pants?
Posted: Friday, October 20, 2006 11:27 AM by Will Femia
The Halloween costumes (some) women wear has been a water cooler topic twice this week for me. Questions that came up in conversation:
- Does it mean anything that for many women, dressing up means dressing sexy?
- Do we need a Sexy Dress-up Day so Halloween can go back to being scary dress-up day?
- Is it fair to infer that women who dress provocatively on Halloween really wish they could dress that way all the time? (Or the reverse, shouldn't a woman be able to dress provocatively one day a year on a day when fantasy dress is allowed, without having to suffer insinuations of sluttiness?)
- Why don't men dress sexy on Halloween?
The Times article raises a few others, including questions about kids' costumes.
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Lords of the Logistic
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Am I misunderstanding something or should the headline on this be Cancer Cured?
I think Borat is actually funnier knowing how angry he's making the government of Kazakhstan. Also, Borat: the deleted puppy scene.
Movie trailer: The Good German - George Clooney in post-war Berlin, shot in black and white. Unlike some of Clooney's recent works, this one looks like a pretty straight thriller without the big political statements (of course, I've only seen the trailer).
Matching the cost of the war against other ways to spend 300 billion dollars.
Nerf probes the line between giving your kid toys and training him to be an assassin.
