leaves this here as a commentary on the ‘Sexy [blank] costume’ theme
http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1855.html
I would have bought it for my wife if it hadn’t been taken down. She likes that show and might possibly have seen the humor in the costume.
BB, please shill these things while people can still go out and buy them.
Between Margaret Atwood’s novel and the TV show there is also the 1990 Schlöndorff film.
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I like that the thumbnail reads The Andmaid’s Tal.
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I wonder if the costume was not only made in China but designed there, too - wherever it was made, I’m sure the process was the same: someone looking through a feed of culturally relevant images and making “sexy” costumes based on them.
A few years ago I would have thought this a deliberate provocation, but now that I’m aware of the enormous quantity of weird “sexy” costumes, I assume the opposite. The question is, is it the same manufacturer as, say, the “sexy corn,” “sexy crayon” and “sexy Pizza Rat” costumes? Because if so, I’d say it’s not so much about knowing what they were doing, but following a rote process. We’ll see neural nets coming up with these kinds of costumes, soon (if this isn’t an example already).
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That film was a terrible interpretation of the novel.
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The blurb sounds like it was based on a brief description of the show someone found somewhere.
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That may be the longest “Can’t you take a joke?” I’ve ever read. Kudos!
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I thought this was pretty weird, and borderline offensive. Like, why are we imitating/celebrating this aesthetic? The imagery is seriously abhorrent, that’s the whole point. But clearly the folks who donned these costumes felt it expressed something important.
Probably something about reclaiming symbols and identities. On reflection, I think I kinda get both this cosplay and the sexy costume.
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I’m Sorry, Ms Streep, but
pioneered the prurient concentration camp story.
To be fair, it’s not as if there are a whole lot of intuitive, sensible franchise tie-ins out there. The other day I saw a star wars themed basketball set. What does basketball have to do with star wars? I guess it doesn’t matter, somebody must’ve bought it… it’s only when these commercial mashups get painfully tone deaf that anyone seems to notice.(Yes, this one is particularly awful!)
I certainly have a hillbilly background, from my Father’s side. I remember from childhood what it felt like to listen to someone dying of black lung. I even play the banjo passably.
I too, come from a rural Kentucky/Tennessee/Alabama background and am thoroughly flummoxed by this logic bomb you have planted.
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Oh, I’ll have to add the banjo to the costume and fake a heavy cough when I talk about “clean” coal. I’m sure you’ll agree it will add to the Halloween fun (except perhaps for @knoxblox).
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That seems sort of mean spirited. You do know that the “Handmaid of Gilead” is a completely fictional character, right? Even if one wanted to do a deliberately offensive version of the handmaid, the only people likely to be personally offended would be superfans of the book or TV show.
But that is no more valid than LOTR fans being outraged by the “sexy hobbit” costume. Or the Star Trek “sexy redshirt” costume. The outrage reminds me of:
I see the “sexy -----” costume, think it is sort of silly, and I will just not buy one. Others see it and believe sales of them must be stopped. I don’t think it is faulty logic on my part, just a different philosophy.
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Come on now, lighten up a little. Now you’re taking notes on the parts of my costume you think are in poor taste instead of just ignoring them. I’m putting a great deal of thought and effort into this costume.
All this outrage over trivial things is exhausting. It’s just like complaining about the white college kids who play people of colour as gangbangers and pimps and prostitutes and slaves with appropriate props and vocalisations.
Yes. Currently, the fictional character (unlike those from LOTR or STNG) also is used as a symbol of feminist resistance to very non-fictional misogynist regimes. But hey, that should be another thing you don’t mind being mocked and turned into a joke, right? Just like a Sexy Black Lung Coalminer Redneck costume. Fun, like in the old days!
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I love the idea that an wave of ironic purchases could steer that neural net into wasteland of sexy office supply costumes.
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Though the sexy pencil and photocopier costumes I’ve found are home-made. As was this meta-sexy costume:
But there are already “sexy” costume versions of almost everything else already: various foods and condiments (pizza, corn, candy, Chinese take-out, hot dogs, mustard), viral pop-culture animals (pizza rat, Harambe), every conceivable character (Rick Grimes from Walking Dead, Pikachu, Optimus Prime, Big Bird, Minions, child characters from TV shows including infants…). There’s even more than one “sexy poop” costume, FFS.
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mmm sexy Microsoft Clippy… no not even that makes Clippy appealing.
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I was just thinking I’ve seen sexy nazi costumes before but no sexy concentration camp survivor costumes… I think I’m just going to post this observation and not research if the second category of sexy costumes actually exists.
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