I thought I was pretty jaded when it comes to the cognitive dissonance happening all around us. Say, for instance, in these two seemingly disparate subjects:
Halloween (former children's candy-collecting holiday, now slutty nurse/cop/cheerleader fashion show masquerading as a light-hearted party night...hey, whatever floats your boat!) and
Eating Disorders (group of tragic, obsessive mental illnesses that affect up to 24 million Americans and have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, also on display daily in the form of socially-acceptable emaciation among models and actresses and retouched photos of already-thin celebs).
But even my metaphorically seen-it-all jaw dropped at the sight of Ricky's "Anna Rexia" Halloween costume, the result of an evil Venn diagram intersection of the two topics. Ricky's has already pulled the costume from its website after a firestorm of protest. I can't even comment on how totally unfunny (and unsexy) this is; it's so obvious that one wonders how on earth the prototype ever got beyond some hilarious designer's drawing board. It's just too painful--as is the knowledge that a not-inconsiderable number of young women aspire to be a skeleton. Oh, correction: a skeleton with big boobs.*
*not included
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