Reviews for a "Sexy PhD" costume

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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 “sexy” women’s 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 “a thing.”) They make the “Sexy Ebola Nurse” costume look completely normal in comparison.

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As I recently noted in another thread you could probably swap the PhD commencement regalia for a “Guinan from Star Trek: The Next Generation” costume without anyone noticing.

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I think it might’ve 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 don’t all have stripes on the sleeve. My PhD regalia was a plain black gown.

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This is de rigueur for any conversation involving “sexy costumes”:

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I have the impression that sexy or not, its the figure underneath the clothes that makes they sexyness.

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Oh come on Cory. You’re telling me you don’t 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?

It’s fun and sexy. Do we have to break everything down to it’s 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 don’t find the op costume particular sexy.

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Ah, yes, “politically correct robots”. As I recently said, as soon as someone says the meaningless phrase “politically correct” in any sort of serious man, I roll my eyes and stop paying attention. You made it even more eye-roll worthy by adding “robots.”

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 you’re the PC robot! Is there a plug I can pull so we don’t have to hear your inevitable missing-the-point response?

What’s 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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It’s been happening since the 90’s. Altho, as someone who moved from the deserts of Arizona to Vermont this year, I saw way less “sexy” 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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@heligo, @marilove

Speaking of politically correct robots (notes).

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I’m trying to picture what a MALE “Sexy PhD” costume would look like. . . assuming there wasn’t a sizing issue, couldn’t 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, that’s a big diploma you’ve got there!

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Oh I got the humour of the post and I quite liked it, I just don’t like condescension. As for the rest of your response, I get what you’re saying - you’re better than me and I should just shut up.