Slut City

A Ho-Ho.
That's what I tried to be for Halloween one year. It was supposed to be sort of punny...because my name is Debbie and a popular snack is Little Debbie, and well, it failed because a Ho-Ho is actually Hostess, not Little Debbie. Really, it was just an excuse for me to go to college party and attempt to look attractive (like a ho....) without the traditional costumes of witches, and ghouls, and skeletons.

It's somewhat mortifying to admit this to you.
I seriously attempted to dress up like a ho... you know, a whore... a slut... a prostitute? All in the good fun of playing on the snack 'Ho-Ho' which isn't even a Little Debbie.

Fail.

If we're being honest, my version of a Ho-Ho wasn't as ho-hoish as you can get by anyone's standards. With next to no cleavage, I believe my mini-skirt was the most revealing but still covered all the essentials fully and completely. My make-up was piled on and in an attempt to look attractive, I probably bordered on the fence of actually looking clownish.

It was my biggest moment of using Halloween as an excuse to dress sexy. It's this weird phenomenon that my college roommates and I made fun of (after I did it, of course)....but it's still happening. I've already seen it plastered over my Facebook newsfeed from the weekend.

Let's throw all of our morality out the window on Halloween and since it's just a costume, it gives us an excuse to flaunt it all. Or, as Mean Girls says it: 'Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.'

Well, I'm going to say something about it. Maybe I feel like I can because I've done it. Maybe that just makes me a hypocrite. I don't care.

Don't dress slutty.
Anything that you wouldn't normally wear in public (sexually speaking)...this night isn't an excuse to wear it. If you're anything like me, you might simply be thinking, 'I want to look HOT on Halloween...not repulsive!' We tend to jump from one extreme to the other. If I don't want to be a bloody, gross monster what else could I possibly be aside from a sexual beast? By that I mean something feminine...which the world automatically turns into a sexy feast. If I want to be a nurse, or a doctor, or a school girl, or a maid, or... anything...it seems that the only acceptable woman costume means that it's tight, low-cut, short and lacy.

It doesn't have to be one extreme or the other, my friends.
You can still look hot without looking like a slut.
You can still look hot while dressing modestly.

Don't throw aside your morals, don't throw aside what you know is right... just to appeal to the masses on some ridiculous costume fest of a night. There's no excuse.

I suppose Mean Girls is right. You can dress like a total slut. The question now for you to answer is: should you?
You already know what I think, but I'm not the one dressing you tomorrow night.
After all... everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial.
Seek to live a life of integrity... at all times and in all things.
Halloween is no exception.

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