Last week, a couple of really interesting discussions arose on this blog concerning determining consent and preventing rape. I’m going to address some of the lingering issues raised in those threads later today. But right now, it’s 9 a.m. on Monday morning, I’m not terribly coherent, amd I’d rather review the implications of Garfield lunchboxes and noxious aftershave on a young attorney’s career prospects. So let’s kick off this edition of Sexist Comments of the Week with a multiple choice:

(a) stilettos
(b) pantyhose
(c) cleavage
(d) eyeliner

According to one lawyer, two will ruin a female attoyney’s career, while two will send her on the partner track. Are career women held to a higher standard of dress than are men? Is business attire absurd all around? Or is the corporate uniform a valuable tool to help boys and girls get ahead? Reader theories—and the answers to your quiz—are after the jump:

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Yesterday, Feminist Law Professors drew my attention to the Miami Daily Business Review’s “Rodent” column, a weekly anonymous rant written by various members of the legal community. The latest missive, “Lady Lawyers Should Dress the Part,” warns female attorneys that they may be sabotaging their careers with overly sexy business attire. Actually, I think it’s more likely that the conveniently anonymous Rodent, who spouts off platitudes like “women who dress like Barbie dolls get treated like Barbie dolls,” is the force that’s keeping women down in the workplace.

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Yesterday, City Lights Editor Mike Riggs revealed that he dressed as “Trailer Trash Zombie” for Halloween this year, a costume he claimed was “not even a little bit” sexy—“unless short denim shorts, suspenders, a camo ball cap, a black sabbath tee with no sleeves, and really upsetting face paint is your idea of sexy.” Now, we have the photo evidence to judge for ourselves. Is Trailer Park Zombie sexy? Is it just offensive? Or is it one of the rare offensively sexy costumes?

Keep this tidbit in mind, courtesy of Riggs: “also, the shorts progressively shortened through the night as I (a) ripped pieces of them off and (b) pulled them up over my gut.”

Every day until Oct. 31, I’m collecting another terrible “sexy” Halloween costume for your erotic cringing pleasure. Today’s ill-advised holiday sex display really hurts me, you guys. I’ve been looking for a costume for a couple of weeks now. Last night, I caught Hocus Pocus at a friend’s house, and got the idea to model my costume after the tuxedoed skeleton band that plays in the big Town Hall bash scene. This morning, I hit the Internets to find a one-piece skeleton costume made to fit a  5′4″ lady. Easy, right? Nope! Just slutty:

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Every day until Halloween, I’m going to keep shelling out the worst “sexy” Halloween costumes on shelves this holiday season. Up next:

THE “SEXY INDIAN” COSTUME

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On Tuesday, I counted down the ten worst “sexy” Halloween costumes on shelves this holiday season. As it turns out, there are way more than ten offensive Halloween get-ups out there to satisfy all your pathetic costuming needs. So I’ll be searing one more terrible sexy outfit into your brains every day until October 31. Up next:

THE FLASHER:

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When I first learned of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ new “Save the Sea Kittens” ad campaign, I was confused—and not because re-branding one species of animal (fish) as another (kittens) doesn’t make any fucking sense. No, I was confused because PETA’s campaign just doesn’t seem overtly sexist enough! There are no Playboy models, lettuce bikinis, or shrink-wrapped naked ladies to objectify in this campaign—just some cute fish you can dress up in costumes in an attempt to humanize them.

I know. I was suspicious, too.

Thankfully, PETA supporters accustomed to sneaking a bit of lasciviousness into their animal rights advocacy can dress their cute fish in a variety of super sexy fish costumes. Ta-da:

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Two weeks ago, William Grimes called his wife, Erin. He was in Birmingham, Alabama with their two young children. Erin had moved to D.C., lured by the prospect of steady work in door-to-door magazine sales that would provide a decent hourly wage, free hotel and travel. “I was calling her and she was saying that she loved me, that she missed me,” Grimes,27, recalls. She promised that he could get a job with the same company.

At 11 a.m., Grimes arrived in the District via a 16-hour Greyhound bus ride. He sat on his luggage—a small carry-on and a camo-patterned backpack—outside the 1st Street NE station. His new sales boss would be picking him up in an hour and a half. Grimes says his wife doesn’t know he’s here. This morning, he sent a dozen roses to her hotel room anonymously. 

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When the American Library Association’s annual conference kicked off in Chicago last Thursday, some attendees wanted the world to know that librarian get-togethers aren’t all about shushing and stacking: There’s a lot of fucking, too.

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The human nipple is a strange beast. Depending on the context, this “small projection of skin containing the outlets for 15-20 lactiferous ducts arranged cylindrically around the tip” has been marketed as alternately sexy, obscene, artistic, disgusting, and even sexier.

But as a consumer of nipple shots, such versatility can become confusing. It’s often difficult to know the socially acceptable reaction to every stray projection of skin that catches your eye. Should you high-five your buddy or vomit discreetly into your hands? I’m here to help.

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