Halloween links

[conuly]

One on candy corn. This is actually part of a series.

In Classroom, Halloween Becomes Harvest Fest

Yet Another article on the hypersexualization of children's costumes. Girl's costumes, that is. Boys are all violent, gory, or violent AND gory.

Something else to do the day after - candy experiments!

Comments

[leora.livejournal.com]

Ah, a Harvest Fest holiday, ruining my happy school memories of not celebrating anything because we generally didn't celebrate holidays in school. And wearing a costume to school was outright forbidden in my High School.

I'm fairly pleased with my Halloween costume this year. I bought a cheap fedora, cheap satchel, and a cheap "whip" (looks like one but isn't whippy) and am calling myself an archeologist. I went to a Halloween party yesterday and it went over well. People tended to get what I was aiming for (I wore clothes that were reasonably evocative.

Although I had forgotten that being blind on Halloween is different from being blind the rest of the year. People tend to think my cane is a prop or a part of a costume. There's a lot more confusion or weirdness about it. I wonder how many other disability aids end up causing such issues during Halloween.

But anyhow, my costume is neither overly sexy nor overly violent, but reasonably nifty. I am pleased.

Although the example the article uses of whatever happened to girls dresses as cats... umm really? I think of girls dressing as cats as part of the oversexualization of young girls. The cat costume is usually aimed at being sexy, generally with something pretty skin-tight for clothing.

I do wonder if we really ever didn't sexualize young girls and we just don't recognize what sexualization looked like in past generations.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

That's exactly the case, in our memory and experience. Example: One of our second grade classmates won first prize at the school's Halloween party by coming as an adult. Our handmade witch's dress and accoutrements (think, roughly, Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth), carefully put together by our mom, came in third.