Halloween Rant

             Halloween comes once a year and consists of too much candy to share, anticipating fear from haunted houses, and horror films friends have dared each other to watch late at night. The costumes, however fill the dark streets with imagination from horrific, bold costumes to adorable baby costumes. The creative part with costumes is that anyone can make anything into a costume - literally anything. For example, if you search on Google for couch costumes, I'm sure the perfect couch costume will be out there for you.

I'm in awe right now.

              Halloween can give you an option to buy your whole costume right from a store (for the lazy people like me) or buy bits and pieces from craft stores to design something incredible on your own. Costumes can show off an artist's best potential and passion. 

              Other costumes may not be as creative, and just completely typical, but at least these people want to participate in the fun, and isn't that what Halloween's about? Well, I feel that some people take it too far. These people take the 'fun' of dressing up, and form it into a perspective of making fun of culture, race and religion. It seems that since it only comes once a year, it is alright if they pretend to be an Islamic terrorist or Adolf Hitler for a day. 

             It may be not a big deal to those certain people, but to others, it is scarring and traumatizing to even hear about. Imagine suffering through an event, and then suddenly seeing strangers, dressing up as the people participating in the event just to receive candy and possibly get drunk at parties. I would be offended and angered by the ignorance and immaturity of these individuals and hope they would stop. To me, they take away the pleasure of dressing up and instead make it some sick joke. I'm fine with people dressing promiscuously such as being a 'slutty cat', a 'slutty nurse', or a 'slutty maid'. Even dressing up as a stripper doesn't bother me, but again, if someone decides it's okay to dress up as a 'slutty nun' or a 'slutty Native' I feel this takes it to a whole new level. These people are prominent figures in our society, and to sexualize them is derogatory and degrading. 

             I agree to the idea of costumes, it brings a community of innovative individuals who bring forth inspiring ideas. However, there is always a limit to everything and people should use their common sense to determine their costume types and have fun eating lots of candy.