The holiday has finally come. You have your costume ready, your makeup tutorial memorized and your plans for the night set in stone. This is a Halloween reminder to all women out there that you deserve the right to wear your costume this Oct. 31 and feel no shame. If you want to be sexy, be very sexy. If you want to be funny, be extremely funny. If you want to be spooky, be insanely spooky. Whether you choose to wear a lot or a little it’s up to you and that’s the beauty of it. We all know the scenes from Mean Girls that explain the bare truth about this holiday:
So, like the characters from the movie viewed it, Halloween is a day where you are able to be whatever you want with minimal judgmental backlash, and this is a reminder that you that you deserve this choice every day. So often women’s clothing is criticized:
In a world where women are questioned about their fashion over their profession, and where women are told that their outfits “ask for it,” this is a reminder that we are not what we wear.
It was on April 23, 2015 that a kindergarten girl was asked to place a t-shirt over her sundress because it was too revealing. Her father Jef Rouner wrote about this experience and it was shared all over the Internet.
This is a reminder that women should never be told what they can and cannot wear, no matter what the age. Halloween is an excuse for what should be a normal ideology. Women can wear what they want, feel comfortable, powerful and beautiful despite the historical norm that it can’t possibly be all at once. You do not have to trade one for the other or sacrifice one for society. You can do it all. You can be it all. Be a bunny like Regina or be a zombie bride like Cady. Be whatever you want and be it well. You have freedom to dress and a right to not be ridiculed for it.
This is your final reminder, to wear your Halloween costume with a confidence that will continue on long after the autumn holiday.
Happy Halloweekend, ladies. In other words: kill it