| October 25, 2013 | | Dear Cosmo Girls, | Slut-shaming might be at an all-time high on the Internet right now, and not because Miley Cyrus and Rihanna are still ridiculously famous. Rather, it's almost Halloween! And if Halloween means anything on the Internet it means talking endlessly — if not in these explicit terms — about how all women are sheep who spend all year looking forward to using this "holiday" as an excuse to run around to parties wearing practically nothing. Leslie Bell, author of Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Choice, tells Cosmopolitan.com's Anna Breslaw, "It's interesting to consider whether we, as a culture, find 'sluts' to be scary and threatening." Given that Rihanna can scarcely look at a nipple pasty without becoming the top story on E!, I'd say we probably do. Which is ridiculous considering that Madonna rolled around on that VMAs stage in her short wedding dress thirty years ago. And now short wedding dresses are in style.
Slut-shaming haters to the left to the left, I say. Fuck the coat, fuck the sensible shoes, fuck pants if you feel like it. Grab a leotard, grab the strangest shoes you can find, and dress up like you mean business on October 31. Costuming oneself for Halloween — aka "no real reason" — is all about having FUN! And what's fun is wearing things you don't get to wear in your normal life. And if you're not Miley or Gaga and work in an office or hospital or retail store, leotards, seven-inch glitter heels, and nipples tassels just aren't part of "every day." Enjoy the excuse to see, just for a night (or two or three, if that's how you roll), what it feels like to be them.
Amy Odell
Editor of Cosmopolitan.com
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