Halloween Costumes: To Geek or Not to Geek?

So, how was your Halloween? Did you dress up?

Some women view the holiday as a chance to act out their inner strumpet. Me, I see it as a chance to act out my inner nerd (as if she doesn’t get enough action already). In recent years, I’ve been Punky Brewster, Animal, and Captain Hammer. Sure, I’m 32 and maybe a little too old to be dressing up as my childhood and geek-meme favorites, but that’s what Halloween is all about, right?

Sometimes Halloween marries the slutty and the geeky. Throw a pair of glasses on with a plaid skirt or a lab coat and suddenly you’re a sexy nerd. Not that I have any problem with showing skin, but some of the women in these costumes seem like they might be the same ones who picked on the nerds in junior high. And now dressing like us is sexy?

I tend to prefer the true-geeky, whether or not the character herself is actually sexy. Doesn’t matter if you’re Molotov Cocktease for Halloween or, say, Hypnotoad, as long as you know and embrace the character. (And, hey, Hypnotoad would make an awesome costume. Maybe next year.)

Do you wear geeky costumes at Halloween? Did you see any awesome geek-girl costumes this weekend? What do you think of sexy-nerd costumes?

Related posts:

1. BlogHer ’09: The Geek Lab Sessions
2. She’s Geeky: A Women’s Tech (un)conference
3. O’Reilly’s Women in Technology series