Our editorial board doesn't normally agree on many things when it comes to fashion, but mention that "dirty devil" costume and we'll reach a pretty quick consensus: Try something else.
Two weeks from Friday, dozens of women will be walking up and down Mill Avenue - or around campus - wearing clothes revealing enough to make Yaser Alamoodi ask for their expulsion from the University.
No, there's not a "golf pros and tennis hos" party at one of the frat houses, or even a ladies night at The Library. It'll be Halloween weekend.
Halloween (or the weekend before) is a great night to go out and have fun. The costumes can be really entertaining. Plus, almost anyone would have a hard time denying that there's still a little kid in them who likes to wear a disguise and grab lots of free candy.
Unfortunately, some people don't seem to get it.
As "Mean Girls" so aptly puts it, "Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it."
Year after year, you can't help avoiding the hordes of women who think it will be funny to dress like hot cops, naughty nurses, Playboy bunnies, ass-revealing angels or flirtatious French maids.
We get it. You're a free spirit. Your friends think dressing like you're a stripper is funny or ironic. Or maybe you think you're demonstrating your liberation from the incredible oppression that shakes its head at you if you dress like a tramp on any other day of the week.
Hey, whatever floats your boat. We just don't want to see it. We're giving you advance notice, before you pick out your costume, that it isn't clever, amusing or enjoyable. It's just annoying.
We just want to be able to walk around campus without having to see someone squeezing into a costume two sizes too small, begging for attention.
It gets even worse when people mistake the offensive or hurtful for the hilarious.
That's right. We don't think your World Trade Center costume is funny, nor do we think your "Mexican" costume is amusing (although maybe Russell Pearce would).
We don't think you're funny. We just think you are callous and probably a bigot.
All too often, we can let a cheap joke marginalize or poke fun at those who have no ability to stand up for themselves.
So, please. You can party any weekend. We won't stop you. Just don't use Halloween as an excuse to embarrass yourself.
