I keep not walking when ever I get another degree. If I miss the PhD, my whole family is going to riot, I think!
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Given the constrains of the concept this is about as good as such a costume can get.
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The âsexyâ womenâs food costumes baffle the hell out of me. (And there are quite a few of them. Like: a lot. A completely ridiculous number. It is officially âa thing.â) They make the âSexy Ebola Nurseâ costume look completely normal in comparison.
As I recently noted in another thread you could probably swap the PhD commencement regalia for a âGuinan from Star Trek: The Next Generationâ costume without anyone noticing.
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I think it mightâve happened at the inflection point when the USA became the most obese country in the world by pretty much any measure you care to choose.
Either that, or when parents got simultaneously too protective to let kids go out an make their own costumes with sharp scissors and junkyard scraps, but too lazy to help the kids make a good costume, therefore leaving the only option to be shitty storebought costumes.
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Big Bang Theory did it first:
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They donât all have stripes on the sleeve. My PhD regalia was a plain black gown.
This is de rigueur for any conversation involving âsexy costumesâ:
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I have the impression that sexy or not, its the figure underneath the clothes that makes they sexyness.
Oh come on Cory. Youâre telling me you donât like a bit of dress up with your missus? Her as say a PhD Nurse and you as a Fireman? Do you look at porn?
Itâs fun and sexy. Do we have to break everything down to itâs social implications? At what point do we stop being humans having fun and become politically correct robots being politically correct.
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I should add that i donât find the op costume particular sexy.
Ah, yes, âpolitically correct robotsâ. As I recently said, as soon as someone says the meaningless phrase âpolitically correctâ in any sort of serious man, I roll my eyes and stop paying attention. You made it even more eye-roll worthy by adding ârobots.â
Yeah who cares about the blatant sexism (and predictability just plain lack of creativity!) that has become of the Halloween costume industry! Political correct robots! PC PC PC robots!!
Besides, if you re-read his commentary combined with context of his post at large and these particular comments, the irony is that YOU are the one taking a rather light-heatarted and goofy post and making it super serious. Personally, I think youâre the PC robot! Is there a plug I can pull so we donât have to hear your inevitable missing-the-point response?
Whatâs next? Sheeple? Come on, I know you wanna call us sheeple!
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Well, there have been non-scary options for a long time, like little kids as pumpkins. And there are always enough people trying to subvert or invert expectations making surprising, weird, or conceptual costumes to spark these kinds of things, and sometimes those people are considered cool, and companies jump right in afterwards with bizarre products. And not all of these are necessarily Halloween costumes originally. Maybe at one time that was an outfit designed for a pizza convention or a commercial. Idk.
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Itâs been happening since the 90âs. Altho, as someone who moved from the deserts of Arizona to Vermont this year, I saw way less âsexyâ costumes on women. Probably not surprising for the obvious reasons lol
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Pizza convention costumes? Really? Sigh. Compare the two pizza costumes. Note the glaring differences for the two genders? That is the point being made.
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Iâm trying to picture what a MALE âSexy PhDâ costume would look like. . . assuming there wasnât a sizing issue, couldnât he just wear the female costume? Or is the male version of this costume just a thong and a mortarboard?
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My, thatâs a big diploma youâve got there!
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Oh I got the humour of the post and I quite liked it, I just donât like condescension. As for the rest of your response, I get what youâre saying - youâre better than me and I should just shut up.
