- Me and this man are about to take a journey
into this inflatable banana.
No, women don't get anything. (crickets chirping)
(upbeat music)
- Today, we're gonna try on stereotypical
opposite gender Halloween costumes.
- Sexy Halloween costumes.
(kisses teeth)
- We're gonna look great. - Spooky.
- I went to an all girls school.
At school, I'd wear the fun guy-ish kinda costume,
then when I went to a party
I'd wear the sexy lady kinda costume.
- Halloween is a time for people to full express themselves
in ways that may not be achievable during the year.
- It's a holiday that's all about unlimited candy,
death, and horniness.
So, what more could you want?
- I definitely think that guys' costumes
are way more conservative.
- I feel like gay guys are like let's slut it up.
- Oh, I'm gonna enjoy this a lot.
- This will be fun.
Get to try out new outfits.
You know, might find a potential Halloween costume.
- Okay, mine's called under arrest.
What's yours called? - Dirty cop.
- I thought that the pants were attached.
- Accessories sold separately.
How are the pants an accessory?
- Oh, are these supposed...
Oh, that's clever.
- [Chantel] They're little baby handcuffs.
- The handcuffs are what clips the fishnet on.
- I like when men struggle.
- Am I supposed...
The costume looked different.
- I actually got changed in record time,
but we're still waiting on Ify.
- Oh.
- Your accessory not included are the fishnets
whereas mine is pants.
- It's essentially the same.
I'm all about gender equality, okay?
- I guess, these, I'm just gonna let them dangle.
- Why are you jingling?
You look great!
- Oh, you're under arrest!
- You can handcuff my pinky to you.
- Put your hands behind your back, young woman.
- I feel like I got some nice arm action, you know?
- This is good to show off the pecs.
This is like, hey.
- I have a fashion crime to call in.
First of all, if you're dressing up as a cop for Halloween,
that's your first problem.
- Read the room.
No one is really lookin' for
a costume that's called dirty cop.
- Or under arrest.
- Why would you dress up as someone's real job
and try to make it sexy?
- I don't mind the sexiness.
I love that.
See, but this just seems kind of poorly thought through.
- I would like it to be equal opportunity.
I need some more sexy accountants.
I need some more sexy librarians.
I think librarians... - What about the sexy
Buzzfeed producers, guys?
- One redeeming factor about this is that
there's a sexy option for both men and women,
and it's marketed to both men and women.
There still is a lot more revealed
on the women's side of things.
- There's a definite lack of pants for both,
so that's encouraging.
However, I actually prefer it without the pants.
It's long enough that I'm rockin' this dress look.
- You know, in reality, you can wear whatever you want.
You don't have to go by the person that's on the package;
however, not everyone is accepting of that.
And so it's like, oh, you're the woman,
you buy the woman package.
You're the man, you buy the man package.
- It felt like there was at least an attempt to be
kind of like a cop with this outfit.
- Here we go. - This is like
the Sailor Moon version of a cop.
- If cops could transform like Sailor Moon...
- Let's go! (laughing)
- Yes!
Oh, yeah, baby.
Get me some scrubs.
- I'm the head nurse!
Alright, I'm movin'
up in the world. - You're the head nurse!
I'm just a dashing doctor.
- I wish they would be
a little more creative with these puns
'cause you could be Nurse Ratchet, but ratchet.
- If someone came in as a nurse like that,
I would call for help.
I'd immediately think that I'm in Kill Bill.
- It really feels like one quick pull and I'd be pantsed.
- Where's DJ?
He's taking too long.
- If they took the scene in The Dark Knight
where joker was the nurse but switched it with Bane.
- So, you feel like Bane in a nurse outfit?
- Yeah, you were merely born in the medical field.
I was molded by it.
- Aw, you look so cute.
I see you're wearing pants.
- It was really hiking up a bit.
I don't want an HR violation, so I'm putting my pants on.
- It's definitely tight. - Yeah.
- I feel like that's the point.
Packs everything together and you're like pa-pow-pow.
Check it out. (laughing)
- It's a little breezy.
I've never had my arms exposed like this
outside of a basketball jersey.
- I mean, I feel like people who buy this are like,
you know, maybe somebody will think I'm really a doctor.
You're at the Halloween party, it's like,
oh, you're a doctor?
Nah, I just came from work.
- My mom is a nurse.
Her stuff looks a little bit more like this,
not anything like that.
- I don't really think you could administer proper treatment
in a costume like this.
- I literally feel like I'm going to bed.
It's a very soft material, but also kinda of just okay.
- When you go and you look at these Halloween costumes,
it's all of these womanly positions--
maid and female nurse, but there's not a female CEO costume.
- It seems like they're really pushing
something towards one audience
and pushing something completely different to men.
- Exactly.
Oh, I can't.
Well, here I am.
- I have to give the costume producers credit.
They can find the sexy angle for any costume.
Recently, this company got in trouble for making a sexy
Handmaid's Tale outfit, which first of all, problematic,
but you're also tardy to the party.
I had friends who were in red speedos with the white caps
and the capes last year and didn't bat an eyelash.
Were problematic before anyone else.
- We don't have time to unpack the privilege there.
Let's put on these bananas.
- Chantel's like stop talking.
(groaning) - Oh, oh!
A little loud there, your costume.
- The very small humming noise really makes the costume.
- It's just like I come with my own sound effect.
- It's got a motor.
There's also a nice breeze on my butt.
- That's so much cooler than mine.
Mine's like an awkward innuendo.
(crickets chirping)
- There's no top to my banana.
Oh, I'm a peeled banana.
- I feel like this is for the cleavage,
and I have the clear straps,
which made it a lot easier to put it on
'cause I knew where my arms went.
But I still put it on the wrong way.
- [Selorm] I love that you have a loin cloth here.
- Wait, so I'm wearing it backwards.
- Oh, you are!
- So, can someone actually unpeel you?
- Maybe not here though.
- The thing that I don't like is just, oh,
if you're a woman, you get that one.
If you're a man, you get this one.
And the fact that they don't present it as a choice
I think is when it's just like come on.
- I just feel happy.
This is something that I would enjoy wearing.
- Aside from when you're using
the banana emoji in q sexual context,
there's girl bananas, there's boy bananas,
there's bananas in pajamas.
- That the banana I want.
That's the representation we deserve.
- I feel like your costume
actually looks like an awesome banana.
In my costume, I'm the banana for wearing this.
- Could you imahine sexy banana in pajamas, though,
where is like lacy. - They would find a way
to put that on a woman's body.
- I feel like I'm getting the better end of the deal here.
- I mean, costumes get hot
and you have an air filtration system
so you never get hot or sweaty.
That's awesome. - Right?
- I guess I took for granted that as a guy I never really
put that much thought into my Halloween costume.
Now, this gives me so much more appreciation
'cause there's so much more that goes into it.
- It's silly how for men for the sexy part of it
they're like show off your muscly arms.
And then for women
it's we're gonna have it a little low cut,
we're gonna have arms, we're gonna have fishnets,
we're gonna have high boots with it.
- Halloween is about escaping reality.
We shouldn't have to go back to the regular stereotypes
of the modern day world.
I'm trying to make this deep.
It's not that deep, but I mean, Halloween is dope,
so just have fun.
- I think there is actually
something to romanticizing occupations.
There's something heroic about the cop
and there's something also heroic
about people that save lives.
I get it.
It's kinda like your everyday superheroes,
but I think that this is not necessarily
a good depiction of them.
- I never thought about Halloween
being such a gendered holiday.
- I mean, why gender a costume in the first place?
It's a costume, right?
- I like the sexy banana better.
- Yeah, the sexy banana felt more you.
- I mean, I'm a sexy fruit.
(relaxing music)
- Do you feel like you can move around well in that?
- Yeah, I...
You know, it's just the jangles.