Feminist Dresses as Vagina on Halloween to Fight Patriarchy – IOTW Report

Feminist Dresses as Vagina on Halloween to Fight Patriarchy

Talking to the Huffington Post, Andie Boyd came up with the idea to dress as a vagina on Halloween after watching Mean Girls. She said she heard this quote and knew what she had to do: “Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.”

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Thus, Boyd told the Huffington Post, she wanted to be the “sluttiest” thing possible and the “most hush hush thing you could be while at the same time chipping away at double standards in our society:” a vagina.

According to Boyd and the Huffington Post, there is a distinct double standard in American society between men and women. She said that “female anatomy should be as present in society as the male anatomy,” implying that people regularly dress up as a penis.

“Not everyone she knows was supportive of the idea, however,” the article reads, as if it is weird that someone would be dismissive of someone who wanted to dress as a vagina in public, possibly in front of children. “Boyd says that when discussing the costume idea with a coworker, they actually responded by being grossed out…

“To Boyd, it was reactions like this that convinced her she needed to go ahead and follow through with the costume,” the article continues.

In the end, after much trial and error, Boyd made her costume, which turned out to be an overwhelming success with her friends.

“My friends loved it and strangers seemed to enjoy it as well,” Boyd said. “It also proved to be educational as my roommate as a gay male had never had much exposure to the female anatomy so I was able to teach him as I was crafting it.”

According to the Huffington Post, Boyd “hopes that her costume will continue spark a conversation and break the barriers to discussing women’s anatomy and health.”

31 Comments on Feminist Dresses as Vagina on Halloween to Fight Patriarchy

  1. Oh for pete’s sake. She’s an unemployed Theatre Major graduate (judging by her pose at best a c-) trying to make some headlines and we all know the HuffnPuff would jump at this (and so did she apparently). She is right about the double standard though. If a male had gone out in a penis costume and assuming he didn’t get beaten up would have probably ended up arrested and charged with some sort of public lewdness crime and hammered by the HuffnPuff for numerous micro agressions.

  2. Had an epiphany after hearing a quote from “Mean Girls”?

    It’s not Halloween anymore, so I guess it’s O.K. again to opine she’s a vapid self absorbed slut showing off her total… depth as a woman…

  3. Dee-Praved. I’m sure this will be the high point of her entire life and she will be the crazy aunt at all the Thanksgivings who can’t wait for the opportunity to recall how she was almost famous for dressing like a vagina (this is where her saner relations clap their hands over their children’s ears) on Hallowe’en those many, many years ago. She coulda been a playa.

  4. She assumed she was dressed as a vagina. IMO, she’s an asshole.

    If she’d rung my bell for treats, I would have told her I was out of tampons and slammed the door in her face.

  5. Scuse me, but why is she asserting that a vagina is “the sluttiest thing possible?”

    A socialist (read: Demonrat) politician is the “sluttiest thing possible” not lady-parts.

  6. This is so stupid on so many levels.
    Just how does a gal get to her age without knowing what a vagina is?
    He costume looks like an attempt to create a vulva.
    That is on par with a man not knowing the difference between his penis and his balls

  7. I don’t know ‘pretty much everybody’ is.
    Public educated people under 35, maybe.
    Also ‘pretty much everybody’ rarely enters a conversation where they describe a vulva as a vagina in the first place, or use either term for that matter.
    If the majority of people started calling a dogs tail a leg would that mean that dogs have five legs, or that the majority of people are fools?

  8. No big deal old Rodham Clinton is running for President solely on the premise that she supposedly has a vagina! Hillarious should wear the idiots Halloween costume to her snooze rallies in order
    to impress the dolts who show up as to what her anatomy looks like front and center!

  9. It’s common terminology, the same way we might say “motor” when we actually mean “engine,” or “bullet” when we mean “cartridge”. If you were in a medical setting, then I could understand your frustration at the lack of precision. But in day-to-day life, people know exactly what you mean when you say “vagina”.

    Anyway, I’ve heard the term “vagina” used to describe a woman’s lady parts a zillion times. I can’t recall the last time I heard anyone use the term “vulva”.

  10. Their vast amount of explosive untapped creativity is like “20 atom bombs for a period of 20 seconds. Totes.”

    They walk onto a soap box and say “I hate things” and immediately expect fame and fortune to rain down upon them.

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