Troubling "Pro-Rape" Halloween Costumes

November 1, 2006

WEST LAFAYETTE, IN-  Halloween used to be fun. Remember as a child you'd beg and beg your mom for the Superman costume? Spider Man? Well here in West Lafayette, IN blocks away from good ol Purdue University on Halloween night  I saw some of the most....um funny / interesting / disturbing costumes of all time. Armed with a full battery, an empty memory card and 6.1 Megapixels I went to work after the show. Let's analyze the game footage shall we?

Not sure if there's something in the water here but there were alot of men dressed as women tonight. Not sure if Halloween is an opportunity for men to unleash their cross dressing fantasies but it seemed to be a consistent theme throughout the night.

I'm not quite sure how I feel about a man dressed as a nun. It's a bit original but it was akward talking to him after the show because he was talking about "how hot these chicks in here look" Always disturbing to listen to a nun talk about "hot chicks".

Later that night I came to appreciate this guy because out of all the men dressed like women he was the most..."pure"
I'm guessing the guy in the middle of this pic is Ragged Ann of the "Raggedy Ann & Andy" fame. I never asked him what he was. He kind of looks like that Strawberry Shortcake toy from the 80's remember that?  

 

The guy in this pic bellow was by far the most disturbing. He and his girlfriend came as "hot nurses" but here's the problem... only one of them was hot. the other was COVERED IN HAIR. A hair covered nurse is not hot. I'm glad the baseball player was in this pic as well he illustrates that there were at least SOME normal people out that night.

This was probably the coolest costume I saw. This guy had an inflatable fat suit. The suit had a battery operated air pump that kept pumping air into the suit. What made it convenient is that he could deflate the suit to sit at the bar or sit at the table to watch the comedy show and then get up and cut the pump on and be instantly fat again.    

These two guys were pretty normal as well. A Civil War general and a guy dressed as the Genie from Aladin. When I saw this from the stage I joked and called the guy gay but I guess the joke's on me, women kept coming up to him and asking if they could have 3 wishes.

 

 And now the two most disturbing pics
These Guys came as the Duke Lacrosse Team.

I had a nice chat with them about the potential insensitivity that their costumes took on.

Some might consider a Duke Lacrosse shirt as saying.. "I Rape Black Strippers". They say the costumes were in the vein of a group of guys who like to hang out and party hard.

"Whatever dude." Is what I said. I thought the costumes were in poor taste but considering that the black student body at the university of Purdue is around 8% I'm sure they'd be hard pressed to find someone to offend. Considering some of the things that I talk about on stage I wasn't in a position to be offended. But I did remind them that when you do something that could potentially offend someone then you need to be mindful of watching your back.

If you choose to still pull the trigger on the potentially offensive matter then be prepared for the backlash. These guys clearly hadn't thought out their costumes.

As the only black person in this bar I guess I felt like it was my responsibility to help be their moral compass. Plus some cool white chicks that might want to bang them probably won't now that they think the 3 of them are "Pro-rape".

I'm not sure if these 3 guys brought the Lacrosse sticks with them. I hope so because if some black people saw that they'd probably beat the shit out of these guys.

A more appropriate "Pro Rape" costume would've been a guy in a Kobe Bryant jersey walking around with a 19-year old white girl. That costume could be the new "Ike & Tina". Even with that costume it'd be hard to tell if the guy is truly "Pro Rape"

This guy however is CLEARLY pro-rape.....
 

He's not holding the Teddy Bear to his crotch.. It's stitched there. He's sodomizing a Teddy Bear. I'm guessing from the flannel shirt and the hat, he's a sex deprived lumberjack that's been stuck in the woods for years and now he chooses to make love to the woodland creatures of the forest.

Who knows, maybe this costume isn't "Pro-Rape". The bear doesn't seem to be fighting it I guess he likes it. I'll never look at Teddy Ruxpin the same.

Holla,

Wood, Jr.