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Halloween PSA breaks gender norms on kid Halloween costumes
the video switches up Batman and Wonder Woman


(Screenshot via YouTube.)
A Halloween PSA wants to spread the message that gender stereotypes should be broken on Halloween.
In the video, a boy and girl are excited to begin their Halloween night trick or treating. They carve pumpkins for Batman and Wonder Woman and put on their costumes.
As the children go out trick or treating, their faces aren’t seen but the parents watch nervously from the curb.
When the family comes home, the parents put their kids to bed. It’s revealed that the whole time the boy was dressed as Wonder Woman and the girl was dressed as Batman.
“My heroes,” their father says as he watches them sleep.
“Whoever you want to be, #MyHeroes,” the message reads at the end.
The PSA’s co-writer Alexander Day explained to the Huffington Post that the video is meant to show that kids should dress up as who they want to be.
“Halloween can be a time people can express themselves in a certain way and not be as attacked for it,” Day told the Huffington Post. “I knew [Wonder Woman] would be a big Halloween costume idea for little girls, but I didn’t see a reason why a boy couldn’t dress up as a powerful, smart heroine.”
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