Before I start, I am fully aware that there a million and one more things that I could be angry about when it comes to Halloween costumes: cultural appropriation, the fact that girls are supposed to dress provocatively but are then criticized for being a 'slut' when they do, how Mother Nature always decides it needs to be freezing the weekend of Halloween, etc.

The list goes on and on and on. Halloween costumes are both a blessing and a curse.

However, I have gathered us all here today to discuss the biggest disgrace to Halloween of all time: boys in jerseys.

Boys in jerseys are the reason why Halloween is so spooky. It's why it's the most haunted day of the year. I would rather face a million real-life ghosts than have to witness another boy in some form of a sports jersey claiming that it's his "costume."

My issue with this ever so popular "costume" is that it requires literally no effort to the point where I wouldn't even consider it a costume. At all.

Not to turn this into a debate of "who has it harder on Halloween" but girls are expected to have a good, actual costume. And if we don't? Boys will ask us all night "what we're supposed to be."

For example, I dressed as Boo from Monsters Inc. this year and got asked three times (all by guys in jerseys, might I add) what my costume was. Girls simply don't have the same luxury that men do of going into our closet and pulling out a random shirt and calling it our costume for the night. We are expected (especially by the hypocritical dudes) to go out and buy a real costume.

I'm not mad that wearing a jersey is an easy costume, either. Y'all, I was also balling on a budget and know all too well what it's like to throw on some cat ears and matching makeup and call it good. However, something that you wear almost daily cannotbe a costume.

Dudes wear their jerseys to class! They wear them to every other party they go to! They wear them to the bars! Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they wear them to bed!!!!!

I'm terribly sorry to say that you cannot simply grab a shirt out of your closet, that you and 90% of your friends also wear very often, and call it a costume.

Let's put in a little more effort (or at least some because there was clearly none at all) next year, boys.