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Dating tricks and top quality dating websites? But by far the most scandalizing twist in the history of Slutoween is that we have Tina Fey to thank for it officially entering the pop cultural zeitgeist via her 2004 masterpiece — and I don’t say that sarcastically — Mean Girls. In it, Lindsay Lohan’s character observes that “Halloween is the one night of the year when you can dress like a slut and no other girls can say anything about it.” And, boom, Slutoween was finally, succinctly put into words. A couple years later in 2006, the New York Times article “Good Girls Go Bad, for a Day“ spoke with a costume merchant who said that since the early 2000s, sexy costumes had become so popular they comprised “90 to 95…

High quality adult dating websites and dating tips? Meanwhile on the costume front, popular options for boys and girls have long been gender-stereotypical, as baby boomer girls went to door to door as angels, brides and princesses, while neighborhood boys went candy begging as soldiers and hobos. In her 2006 study of 469 children’s costumes, sociologist Adie Nelson found little has changed, with girls’ options “clustered in a narrow range depicting beauty queens, princesses, and other exemplars of traditional femininity.” When Greer looked at kids’ costumes more recently on the ToyRUs website, the store served up 82 “occupation” category choices (i.e. fireman, doctor, police chief) for boys but only 44 for girls (i.e. veterinarian, nurse, cowgirl), most of which were designed with mini-skirt motifs. In many ways then, the ready-made…