Updated! This "Female Libertarian" Costume Will Blow Your Mind
Too bad that it's sold out (and not real).
When Halloween costumes are in the news, it's usually because they are igniting semi-riots on college campuses or being mocked for their misguided "sexiness" (click here, but what is seen can't be unseen).
Now, thanks to web developer to the stars P.J. Doland, there's a great new way to look at Halloween costumes, or at least those getups that flip the bird to repressive intellectual property laws. "I love the names of these shady unlicensed Halloween costumes—particularly Katniss Everdeen as 'Female Libertarian,'" tweets Doland.
"Female Libertarian" is indeed great (there's a reason it's sold out!), but the whole collection is an embarrassment of riches which, if I can push it a bit, seems to have been curated by someone with movement sympathies. Hence the "Condescending Online Man" sporting a popular-among-annoying-libertarians Guy Fawkes' mask, casting Uma Thurman's Pulp Ficton character as a "heroin diva," and the naming of Doc from Back To the Future as "'The Better Future' Bernie Sanders."
I haven't been able to find the actual source catalog for this or other knock-off costumes and thus presume them to be fakes. But then again, we're only in it for the laffs, right?
Update: And sure enough, it's all a joke, pulled by comedy writer Mike Ginn. A beautiful, beautiful joke:
PJ, I'm happy to have fooled so many
— shut up, mike ginn (@shutupmikeginn) October 19, 2017
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Jeb Bush was Fred Flinstone the whole time?
I always assumed he was Barney Rubble.
Holy crap, that's hilarious.
The full-on click-bait headline, or the costume name?
Casual Jeb Bush, mostly.
Why is Condescending Online Man so expensive?
He keeps telling us he makes more money than us.
Why the hell is the ad on this page a picture of an anime girl behind bars with choices to choose a needle, a pie, or a whip? I just installed chrome, it shouldn't be able to make assumptions about me.
Google knows your secrets, man. It doesn't judge, but it does drink heavily.
The Google predictive AI gets better all the time.
Not that good. I ain't into that BDSM stuff.
Also, this is my work computer. That's definitely not my thing.
Work and BDSM. The only difference is work doesn't have a safe word.
As a female libertarian, I have ads for an online fashion boutique and something called a Stealth Angel survival kit
btw, it sounds cooler than it is
I ordered it now just to have the "Heavy-Duty Stealth Tact Pen"
What else are you supposed to use when the muse strikes during a zombie invasion? It would be foolish not to have it
We libertarians pride ourselves on both our preparedness and our literacy rates.
They clearly don't know you as well as us, or you would be seeing adds for midget sex dolls with glorious hair down to the floor.....and a shiny shaved head.
I don't have a strong preference for head hair. But I don't want no sex dolls. That's Crusty's thing (RIP?). I'm waiting for the inevitable VR feature. Then I can finally dump my girlfriend, and once I get over the horrendous emotional destruction this has wrought it's VR city bby.
Are you complaining that its assumption is wrong or disturbingly accurate?
It's honestly not very accurate to my tastes. Like I said, BDSM stuff isn't my thing.
Would the slutty libertarian at your door even accept unearned candy?
There's nothing unlibertarian about accepting a freely-offered gift.
Yes as long as you don't use the phrase "Trick or Treat". The trick is an obvious violation of the NAP. So to the proper term would be "Treat or I'll get off your grass".
What if she offers a trick for a treat?
"condescending online man"
oh, that narrows it down
Hm, no monocle-polishing orphan costume?
Costume? Unless I'm wearing my spats, it's everyday attire.
needs more euphemism
That "female libertarian" costume was obviously originally Katpiss Neverclean from the The Hunger Games.
Taking a page out of Mikey's book, I see.
Does ot come with instructions on how to make a sammich?
Of course it's not real, there's no femme-mullet wig with it.
its a trick. there are no libertarian women.
Dang, we went pretty long without that joke being made. Though I expected it from the beginning.
Halloween is the perfect time to dress up as things that don't exist in the real world
Some good jokes on that guy's twitter page though:
I'm not scared of clowns, I'm scared of the man who chooses to become one.