This needs to be addressed.

LADIES. I think we all need to discuss something around this time of year.


Halloween should not be about unleashing your inner slut. I've gotten to the point of disgust...please, no more "slutty reindeer", "slutty construction worker", or "slutty ballerina". Do you know what I was this year? My friend and I dressed up as Mario & Luigi. We went to Value Village, found some overalls and t-shirts in the mens department, got a foot-long moustache each, gloves from Dollarama, hand-painted some free hats, and viola:

(sorry it's horozontal, I don't know how to flip it!)

We got several compliments on our costumes that night, and I had a lot of fun creating it! 

The "slutty reindeer" costume? I actually didn't make that one up. Last night (well, technically this morning) my friends and I went to McDonald's for an impromptu midnight fries run. While we were there, a girl came in dressed in a skin tight brown skirt that just barely covered her butt, a white tank top, a pair of flats, and reindeer ears. AND THAT'S ALL. People, we live in the prairies. She was so hammered that she ended up passing out on a table. She was by herself, and probably about 15 years old. My friends and I (who were just a group of girls), woke her up and asked if she needed a ride home.  She insisted that her friends were coming to get her, but we made sure she called them and we waited with her for a while until we figured she'll sober up eventually, and until then McDonald's was probably the best place for her to be. 

It's heartbreaking and frustrating that girls as young as 15 years old are following the trends placed by society. When I was 15, my friends and I dressed up as a doctors...not "slutty doctors", but we actually got scrubs from VV. I hate how things have changed.

Is it too much to ask for one year where everyone is tasteful? Just one year where I don't see girls use Halloween as an excuse to wear lingere in public, corsets, a tub of makeup and tease their hair to no end, then plop on a pair of ears and call themselves a cat? 

Even Nicole Richie is sick of it:

Just a thought ladies! Try and be classy. The boys you attract with those outfits are not the ones that you'll want to spend the rest of your life with. Sure it's fun now, but dressing like a slut will give everyone the wrong impression. Modesty is a great asset; attain it, use it. Wear more clothes.

[Also, if you're in 8th grade, PUT DOWN THE BOOZE. You shouldn't be drinking if you're not even the age of consent. What do you have to look forward to later in life if you start partying when you're 13 or 14?]