Breaking: Adult Halloween Costume Tasteless

Daily News “hip trend” columnist Jenice Armstrong did one of those ‘let me get outraged’ DN columns today where something offensive (sometimes “offensive”) is detailed and the columnist gets outraged and encourages you to get outraged, too.

There aren’t many rules to these columns but that, although they do need to include a “What’s Next?” joke. (As in, “What’s next after t-shirts promoting marijuana? T-Shirts promoting baby murder?)

Today’s topic is offensive Halloween costumes, including one for — get this — “Anna Rexia.” I am offended by that costume, but only because multiple people over the age of 17 would actually go out and spend $40 on that crap.

Armstrong notes she wrote this same column about “Skankoween” — that’s almost as annoying as the people who insist on spelling it Hallowe’en — around this time last year, and it’s only gotten worse, because now you can make fun of a disease. (She doesn’t mention any sort of Osama bin Laden in a Gap sweater or WTC costumes.)

Actually, the headline and first few grafs are about Halloween costumes, but the rest of the article is about some Barbie doll where you can spend an unlimited credit card. (Punctuated by, of course, the line “what could be next, Lap Dance Barbie, complete with a plastic fistful of dollar bills and a tiny stripper pole?”) Complaining about capitalism, though, doesn’t make good photography, so the photo is of a woman in a skin-tight Halloween body suit.

Anyway if you’re wondering, yes, that means this column was, essentially, about offensive Halloween costumes (circa any time post-1930s) and Mall Madness (circa 1988).

Jenice Armstrong | Unfunny costumes [Daliy News]