Happy Halloween!

Yours truly is out having a fabulous time on a Halloween-themed vacay.  But here are some gorgeous vintage Halloween postcards.  Someday I am going to get around to making something out of these, but in the mean time I hope you enjoy them!

Halloween Pin-Ups

It is getting close to Halloween, my absolute favorite holiday.  Here are a few vintage Halloween pin-up girls. 

 

Betty Grable, 1940s

I can't find her name, but she is adorable. 

This is Paulette Goddard.  She was Miss Halloween, 1939.

Dead Sexy

Gimme a W!  Gimme a T!  Gimme an F!  

Lidner is a Polish coffin company.  This is the cover of their 2012 calendar.  This is the third year that they have published a sexy lady calendar to help sell their wares.   I know when I think about being dead, and having my lifeless corpse lowered into the ground, I definitely think about naked ladies with boob jobs.  So, yeah, whatever.

You might have noticed that the image above merely shows a naked lady.  There is no degradation or violence.  So, technically speaking, it's not pornographic.  Don't worry though, Lidner ups the ante with some of the images on the inside of the calendar.

Sexualization of violence against women?  Check!

Good job with that advertising campaign!   I think somebody deserves a raise!

Skanky Barbie? Oh, I'll give you Skanky Barbie.

 

This is tokidoki Barbie.  She is quite the controversial little doll these days.  All the blogs and news shows are talking about her.  Honestly, I don't get it. Yeah, she has some tattoos.  Do I want my five year old to have tattoos?  Nope.  I gotta say I'm not too worried that she is going to take off on her big wheel and get tatted up.  I am a lot more worried that she'll decide that she needs big boobs, a tiny waist and foot-killing-stilettos of death to be okay.  

This morning I heard the radio show host Bill Bennett call her Skanky Barbie.  Seriously, "Dr." Bill?  Skanky implies not only low-class but also sluttiness.   Is she a whore because she has tattoos?  Or is it the pink hair?  I'm confused, because a lot of Barbies get sold every year that look like outright prostitutes, and there are no news stories about them.  Check out this Barbie that I bought at Toys 'R Us for my psych of women course.

My scene Barbie?  What exactly is your scene?  Street corners and stripper poles?

So, lay the hell off of tokidoki Barbie because of the tattoos.  At least she's fully dressed.  Let's focus on the bigger problems with Barbie.   

P.S.
Love the pink hair, bitch!

It's Halloween! Is your daughter going to be a princess or a stripper?

Halloween season is definitely in full swing!  I am trying to figure out how in the hell to make my son the Shark Boy costume he wants to wear (apparently nobody sells Shark Boy costumes), and am shopping for just the right princess dress for my daughter.  My daughter, a princess?  Yep.  Isn't that a bit gender stereotyped?  Yep.  Every year since she's been able to pick, she's chosen a princess gown.  She's been a snow princess, a purple princess, and last year I made a drag-queen worthy silver princess dress out of an old silk nightgown and a whole lot of rhinestones.  

So, while I am letting my kid dress up like a princess, apparently a lot of other moms are letting their kids dress up in mini-versions of adult hoochie-mama Halloween costumes. 

I'm not sure who Lagoona Blue is, but based on the photo below I'm guessing she is a workin' lady.  Check on the hooker shoes on this girl:

Surely I am not the only one who thinks that it is not cool to let little kids play sexy dress-up for Halloween?  

A Little Hilda for Your Monday

So it's Monday.  We've got that going for us, right?  Here's a little Hilda to get your week off to a good start.

Plumbing can be fun?  Really?

Oh, Japan!

So apparently in Japan, women spend money to have cosmetic dental procedures to have their teeth look like this:

In Japan, this crooked, exaggerated canine look is called yaeba, and it's considered cute and desirable.   In the US, we call that a jacked up grill, and we spend lots of money so that our teeth don't look like that.   Apparently, this particular pattern of crooked teeth is somewhat common in Japan, and the Japanese have decided to embrace it instead of striving for perfectly straight teeth like we do in the States.  That's actually rather nice, although it sucks that women with straight teeth are having false yaeba applied.  It's just further proof that beauty standards are arbitrary as hell.

Let's just hope that the Brits don't do something similar.