Baby Girls in the Kitchen Escape Halloween Stereotyping by Dressing Up as Marshmellow Birds
Friday, 26 October 2007 by kinakoJam
Excerpts from this week's Lynn Yaeger column in the Village Voice:
"I walk past the windows of Toys "R" Us and am treated to the nauseating sight of the Disney Enchanted Talking Kitchen. It seems that this item, which is being ministered to on the box by a pair of miniature fairy princesses, offers an oven that lights up and chats. (But what does it say? "Read Susan Faludi"?)"
"Since I'm no fun at all, I have been worrying about sexual stereotyping in costumes—so many sluts versus superheroes, vixens versus vampires. Is it just me, or are buxom lassies and virile jerks pretty much the order of the day? Are they being worn, at least in some cases, without the sufficient dollop of irony?
There's a Harajuku girl ensemble that looks disconcertingly like what I have on —but my nerves are calmed by the outfits greeting me at every turn: life-size [Marshmellow]Peeps, Wheaties boxes, infant-size M&Ms (at least food is gender-blind)."
Taco costume:
Wholesome banana jazz-dancer:
You can never be a sour grapes wearing this fun costume!:
Is it a boy or a girl? Neither, it's a marshmellow:
Pumpkin dog:
"I walk past the windows of Toys "R" Us and am treated to the nauseating sight of the Disney Enchanted Talking Kitchen. It seems that this item, which is being ministered to on the box by a pair of miniature fairy princesses, offers an oven that lights up and chats. (But what does it say? "Read Susan Faludi"?)"
"Since I'm no fun at all, I have been worrying about sexual stereotyping in costumes—so many sluts versus superheroes, vixens versus vampires. Is it just me, or are buxom lassies and virile jerks pretty much the order of the day? Are they being worn, at least in some cases, without the sufficient dollop of irony?
There's a Harajuku girl ensemble that looks disconcertingly like what I have on —but my nerves are calmed by the outfits greeting me at every turn: life-size [Marshmellow]Peeps, Wheaties boxes, infant-size M&Ms (at least food is gender-blind)."
Taco costume:
Wholesome banana jazz-dancer:
You can never be a sour grapes wearing this fun costume!:
Is it a boy or a girl? Neither, it's a marshmellow:
Pumpkin dog:
This gender-alarmist thing may seem extreme unless you have ever been in North America during the Halloween season,
This is my second Halloween spent in North America,
and I gotta tell you that Canadian and American towns get swamped for weeks with neanderthal behaviour. It is basically an excuse for girls to dress up in real slutty costumes (police girls, elves, fishnets, basically any costume which ends just at the ass) while the guys wear whatever (saw one fat hairy guy on the street last night in nappies/diapers).
It's totally gross.