Well, it’s Halloween and you know what that means: pumpkin chocolate chip cookies and toasted pumpkin seeds and Jack ‘o Lantern carving (I have four pumpkins waiting) and bobbing for apples, and goblins and ghouls, gore and the grim reaper, and children begging for candy door to door and annoying people who hand out pennies or toothbrushes or dental floss or crappy candy like dum-dum pops or peanut butter chews. And then there is trunk-or-treating because the world has become a crazy place and psycho people put razor blades in candy.

But wait! Halloween requires a costume and there are only two choices: scary or funny: you choose, unless you’re a woman, then they only come in sexy.

Stores are overflowing with costumes for the lady folk. You can be a scantily clad, coquettish: nurse, school girl, bar maid, cat-woman, vampire, devil, angel, cheerleader, secretary, fairy, firewoman, flight attendant, or construction worker. The possibilities are endless! Depending on who you ask, it’s either a convenient excuse for wearing lingerie in public or further evidence of the continued subjugation of women by men.

But speaking of scandal, who can forget the annual ill-reputed Utah State Howl, a Halloween party where women freely cavort dressed in Victoria Secret’s finest and where a popular costume involves merely a few turns of Saran Wrap. But before we condemn the reprobate Aggies, let’s remember there is precious little else to do in the frigid tundra of Logan, Utah.

Us Mormons are not afraid of a good time. LDS Halloween parties encourage costuming but enforce the following rules: no masks and no cross-dressing– at least the guys aren’t allowed to cross-dress. I suppose the ladies could if they wanted.

But we’ve drifted from our main quest, to find out if you think Halloween is a good thing. Do you?

Is Halloween Evil?


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