It’s now that time and it seems The Metro is tipping that this year’s most popular Halloween costume is “inevitably going to be a Red Maiden from The Handmaid’s Tale.
Website takes down ‘sexy Handmaid’s Tale’ costume (metro.co.uk).
Well “inevitably going to be” in articles standfirst at least if the headline above and copy below do not cast some doubt upon that.
Unfortunately, not everyone thought that the appropriation of a character designed to demonstrate female oppression was the best call. And following a whole lot of online outrage about the costume, Yandy decided to take it down.
“Unfortunately” and then running poll as to whether reader finds “a sexy fertility slave” costume offensive or “musing tongue in cheek take” on the dystopian drama for streaming service Hulu (Wikipedia) and costume company Yandy’s “Own Your Sexy” mantra and intention to cast the “Yandy Brave Red Maiden Costume” as “an expression of women’s empowerment” rather than “a symbol of women’s oppression” as it has been unfortunately deemed in message of removal from its site.
It’s more likely inevitably to be this years costume shocker. Last year that being an Upside Down Honey sexualised Eleven costume from Netflix’s Stranger Things (Blog 12th Oct. 2017), and the year before that bound and gagged Kim Kardashian robbery victim (Latest Picks 11th Oct. 2016).
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