The premise was quite straightforward. Halloween costumes have become less and less modest. I encourage everyone to read their article, especially my readers of the fairer gender. I can honestly say that, as a burly curmudgeonly man at the ripe old age of 28, that I can not give young ladies advice any better than they do. So I'll address the other "burlies" out there.
Like I said, "burly and curmudgeonly" Also I really wish I
remembered what caused me to make this expression
First of all, let me start by talking about girl's outfits. I would be lying if I said I always tried very hard to seek modesty and practice chastity. I was once a teenage boy. As I've gotten older, though, I came to notice something. Girls dressed modestly radiate something that all guys really want. Beauty. Not the photoshopped ultra trick photography beauty that Vogue puts in its magazines.(I apologize for knowing the name of that magazine.) But real, authentic beauty. The kind of beauty that a pregnant mother just radiates. The kind of beauty that a father sees when he hands off his daughter as a bride. Hell, the kinda beauty a father should always see in his daughter. The kind of beauty I will see when I'm one day the man he's handing her off to. That's real beauty.
That is real, God given beauty. The kind of beauty that all women have because they are Princesses in the Kingdom of God. They are the daughter being given from the Father. That's the kind of beauty that the best photographers and photoshoppers can't artificially create. It's internally inherent to all women. There's an old song that I love listening to. It's by Steven Curtis Chapman and the chorus is so powerful. "I can see the fingerprints of God, when I look at you. Oh I can see the fingerprints of God and I know it's true. You're a masterpiece that all creation quietly applauds and you're covered with the fingerprints of God." The song a powerful testament to the fact that God hand creates us all and we're all inherently beautiful because, in simple terms, we're God's creation.
"What does this have to do with Halloween costumes?" you ask: hypothetical reader of my blog. Well, it's not just Halloween costumes, its beachwear, and winter wear, and basically the entire Victoria's Secret store. We sell women, and even young girls, this notion that they are only beautiful if they reveal themselves. A lot of themselves. No wonder there's a body image perception issue in this country. We sell it to them for record profits. So ladies, here's my final dude thoughts, "You're too beautiful to let a costume or a bikini say otherwise. I promise."
Something like this
Guys!!!!(literally male readers) we need to start showing the world that we can see real beauty. You know that Gallant Knight-"Gonna knock that guy out" feeling you get when someone creeps on your spouse, or girlfriend, or sister, or ma? That's how we should feel about how to treat all ladies. We should expect each other to treat all women and girls with the same respect we expect of our loved ones.
Definitely something like this
We need to "gentleMAN" up. We need to be better than the pigs girls sometimes think we are. Hell, we need to be better than the pigs we sometimes actually are. We need to see the inherent beauty of all women. They honestly are the princesses Disney always told them they were. We need to be the Prince Charmings, the Flynn Ryders, the Prince Adams, hell even Shrek the Ogre was more of a man than Lord Farquaad.
This here is a real man....er....well Ogre
One final thing, and while Jackie and Leah's article was wonderful. It missed a crucial point. Men's costumes can be pretty unchaste too. Don't believe me? Do a google search for funny men's costumes. Almost all of the results fall into one category. "Haha, this costume makes something that isn't supposed to be phallic into something that IS phallic. HAHAHAHA witty." I found this out when trying to think up a funny Halloween costume, I searched for that exact phrase and with the exception of the occasional banana suit which, to be fair, is freaking hilarious, all costumes fell into that category. Guys. I'm sorry if this gets a little blunt, but we are more than our penises. We have brains, personalities, ambitions, friends, families, senses of humor(even non phallus related humor), and so much more to offer the world than that one piece of our anatomy. Let's act like it. Honestly.
See? Non-middle school funny
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