Personally, I think there's no harm in flaunting yourself on Halloween. Then again, I am a man, and I'm not going to be wearing a Chippendale's costume a la Chris Farley and Patrick Swayze.

Most of the anxiety about the sexualization of Halloween comes from adults—the very people teenagers are inclined to ignore. If sexy Halloween is going to die, girls themselves will have to kill it. 

Perhaps the most persistent argument that adults make against sexy Halloween is that women in revealing costumes are asking for trouble. The idea that wearing an abbreviated costume makes a woman a target of unwanted sexual attention from men is repeated endlessly in columns and on blogs.

If these anti-great costume ladies want to promote the fact that "over sexualized" costumes open the door to sexual aggression from males, you're going to have to do a little better than "columns and on blogs" to factually back that up - that's just my opinion.