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People Got So Mad About This 'Sexy' Handmaid's Tale Costume That the Company Is No Longer Selling It
Time ^ | September 21, 2018 | Billy Perrigo

Posted on 09/21/2018 8:18:02 AM PDT by EdnaMode

A “sexy” Halloween costume inspired by the dystopian novel and TV series The Handmaid’s Tale is no longer being sold after receiving a barrage of online criticism for sexualizing the show’s subject matter — women subjugated by an oppressive government.

The online retailer Yandy, which designed and sold the costume, issued an apology Thursday following the backlash. “Over the last few hours, it has become obvious that [the costume] is being seen as a symbol of women’s oppression, rather than empowerment,” the company wrote in a statement shared on Twitter.

“This is unfortunate as it was not our intention on any level. Our initial inspiration to create the piece was through witnessing its use in recent months as a powerful protest image,” the statement continued. “Given the sincere, heartfelt response, supported by numerous personal stories we’ve received, we are removing the costume from our site.”

Before being taken down, the costume’s product description read: “An upsetting dystopian future has emerged where women no longer have a say. However, we say be bold and speak your mind in this exclusive Brave Red Maiden costume featuring a red mini dress, a matching cloak with an attached hood, and a white bonnet headpiece.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: costume; halloween; halloweencostume; handmaid; handmaidscostume; handmaidstale; thehandmaidstale; yandy
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To: Snickering Hound

21 posted on 09/21/2018 8:41:28 AM PDT by x
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To: Snickering Hound

The costume has entirely too much material for that model. More skin please. :^)


22 posted on 09/21/2018 8:41:57 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Mr Rogers

Oh I think it would agree with some 35 to 50 year old woman who craves some relationship fantasy. At the end of the episode I watched...I was sitting there and thinking they need some Trump-character to show up and just fix everything. If all of the characters were as miserable as they seem in the story....most folks would get into some revolution or civil war...but they all seem to want to live miserable lives.


23 posted on 09/21/2018 8:42:08 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: jiggyboy

Just not “fun” sex I guess

What was the movie, guy walking into a “house of sin” and his buddy says “have fun” - the guys turns around and says, I’m going in for sex not to have fun.


24 posted on 09/21/2018 8:44:09 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: Drew68

Liz Warren outfit with the screeching voice!


25 posted on 09/21/2018 8:44:46 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Snickering Hound

Dump the bonnet, cut an eye slit in the cloak and Presto! the inventory is converted into sexy burkas.


26 posted on 09/21/2018 8:45:54 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
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To: EdnaMode

The hypocrites liked it well enough to wear it during the Kavanaugh hearings. Otherwise - IT MUST BE BANNED!


27 posted on 09/21/2018 8:49:41 AM PDT by Enterprise
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To: EdnaMode

Dang. There goes mu wife’s birthday present.


28 posted on 09/21/2018 8:55:18 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Army Air Corps

Scalawag.


29 posted on 09/21/2018 9:08:49 AM PDT by wally_bert (Terrific! Terrific? Harve Nyquist never ordered any radials.)
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To: Army Air Corps

That’s because no costume is needed


30 posted on 09/21/2018 9:10:07 AM PDT by wardaddy (I donÂ’t care that youÂ’re not a racist......The Hill just zotted me for saying libtard)
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To: longfellow

They uh.....don’t shave?


31 posted on 09/21/2018 9:10:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: EdnaMode

I love how a Liberal Wet Dream ends up being a TV Production.


32 posted on 09/21/2018 9:11:42 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: EdnaMode

Leftists are cold and joyless creatures who take the fun out of everything.

There doesn’t seem to be a single thing in life that they don’t inject their miserable politics into.

I would say they blacken everything they touch, but I’m sure that would be racist.


33 posted on 09/21/2018 9:17:23 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: EdnaMode

The Handmail’s Tail — God, if I have to hear that again! It’s a dreary fictional novel, written by the Canadian Margaret Atwood, and all the left can do is celibate it like reality. What stupidity. It’s like “here is a can of $hit people are pouring on themselves and I better do that too!” Whoever decides what goes on with the left must be a craven idiot and you wonder how these people get the power that they have? What horrendous experience do they have to go through to be in a position to determine the leftist’s fashionable nonsense? Let me guess, their mind has to be racked with perversion to the point that psychiatry doesn’t work, Buddhism doesn’t work, pills don’t work and they are left facing their startling demonic void from which everything flows. Wow, what fatuous artists they flatter themselves to be! As if Satanic stink was an aesthetic value. Anyway, it bores me to tears.


34 posted on 09/21/2018 9:19:44 AM PDT by BEJ
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To: EdnaMode

Handmaid’s Tale is an Allegory for Islam but the author, producers and left turned it into a anti-Christian post apocalyptic Femi-Nazi horror show. The real horror are the “Handmaid’s Tales” in every area on the planet where Islam is allowed to go Sharia. The left and Islam is a bizarre yet very dangerous alliance to humanity and all free people.


35 posted on 09/21/2018 9:30:46 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Army Air Corps
I have yet to see a woman’s Halloween costume labeled

“Bitter, angry Shrew” or “Porcine, angry Gender Studies Professor.”

LOL

36 posted on 09/21/2018 9:36:32 AM PDT by GOPJ (Kavanaugh gave me a wedgie in the fourth grade ... michealpramirez)
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To: EdnaMode

Whooo, fishnets!


37 posted on 09/21/2018 9:44:37 AM PDT by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.9we)
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To: KarlInOhio

Looks like an extra from the 2nd Twilight movie.


38 posted on 09/21/2018 9:48:21 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Army Air Corps

Look in the Clinton Section.


39 posted on 09/21/2018 10:25:49 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Drew68

You are a wicked man (I typed this with a broad smile).


40 posted on 09/21/2018 10:33:39 AM PDT by bagman
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