On Halloween, some women seek alternatives to super sexy costumes

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Women's Halloween costumes are often hyper-sexualized. But not every woman wants to spend Halloween scantily clad. 

Katherine Davis speaks with Suzanne Scoggins, the creator of the website TakeBackHalloween.org, which is generating a lot of buzz by encouraging women to dress up as feminist heroines instead of dirty nurses or Playboy bunnies. Lisa Wade, sociologist from Occidental College, also weighs in on issues surrounding super-sexy Halloween costumes. She says sexy costumes might be a bigger societal problem than most people think.