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Sunday Bitter Sunday #4

Another Sunday, another outpouring of bitterness. And another new hairstyle:

Such is the beauty of last week’s bantu knots: you take them down and you get a whole new hairstyle. But not even awesome hair can keep me from being pissed off about this:

Sunday Bitter Sunday #4: Terrible Store-Bought Halloween Costumes

I love Halloween.

It’s probably my favorite holiday because it combines two of my greatest pleasures: a) dressing up and b) getting really, really drunk.

But seriously, a lot of these mainstream costumes are ruining it for me.

I went downtown on Wednesday to buy comics when I passed by one of those Spirit Halloween stores. I haven’t decided what I’m going to dress up as yet, so I thought I’d just poke my head in to see what they had.

Big mistake.

Practically all of the women’s costume were “Sexy (insert noun)”. No, you cannot just be a witch or a fairy or a nurse (which are already pretty dumb costumes to begin with), it has to be sexy. My “favorite” one would have to be the Sexy Border Patrol lady:

But it gets better. The website where I found an image of the costume includes this sentence at the end of the costume description:

“Pair the Sexy Border Patrol costume with our Mexican Man costume for a hilarious couples outfit.”

The Mexican Man costume (of course) looks like this:

Um, wow. Hate crime, anyone?

Let’s just say that I will definitely be making my own costume this year.

You know, it’s funny to me, all the people out there who think that racism and sexism ended years ago and people just need to stop complaining. You don’t even have to listen to the ignorant vitriol coming from recent Sarah Palin rallies.

All you have to do is look at what passes for a fucking Halloween costume.