Reminder to avoid offensive Halloween costumes

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reminder. I’m going to make sure to dress up as Sexy Hamas. I want to offend as many people as possible.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the reminder. I’m going to make sure to dress up as Sexy Hamas. I want to offend as many people as possible.

Well played

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Anonymous wrote:Hello, Halloween costume troll! How was your year?

I am not a troll. This is a serious issue.

You think trolls don't post about serious issues just to rile people up? Can we have a little perspective about what constitutes a serious issue? My three year old dressing up like her hero Pocahontas...it's not that. The VA state legislature trying to police history and what our kids learn? That. That's serious. When you make everything serious nothing is serious.

Years ago I posted asking if my daughter could dress up as Pocahontas and was annihilated on here.

I’m ordinarily pretty lax about this stuff but the Pocahontas stuff sort of creeps me out because she’s an actual person that has been totally co-opted in a way that is kind of weird and uncomfortable for me. I wouldn’t judge you for letting your kid dress as Pocahontas, but I think i noxed it for my own kid because it just makes me thiink of a young girl who was kidnapped as a teen, married an older man under circumstances that probably weren’t totally voluntary, and died of some awful disease when she was only 20, far fell her home and family. And everyone treats her as a happy cartoon. It’s just icky to me. It’s my least favorite disney movie.

This is a different concern. Dressing as Pocahontas is not racist. You are uncomfortable with it because her story is sad, and I think some tribal leaders have expressed that the white mythology around her is so insensitive that dressing like her is hard to do respectfully. But it's different from putting on a wig with feathers and saying you're an Indian.

It's Halloween. You don't have to be "respectful."

Or, just say it's not Pochahontas and you're dressing like an injun squaw.

Yeah, just be openly racist — Halloween is like those free passes the kids get to say racist stuff

Seriously, this is what you people worry about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fall can be such a fun season, but it is important to remember: we are all in this together.

As you select costumes for yourself and your child, please avoid costumes which are culturally insensitive, as well as costumes that are racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, sizeist, or ageist.

Maybe don’t get offended about everything? Where do you live so my
Wife can come get candy dressed as a slutty, obese, Hamas lovin’, grandma ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fan of local football team so I plan to dress as an Indian brave wearing a naval commander’s cap and a sash with the letters WFC.

NOT funny.

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Anonymous wrote:Fan of local football team so I plan to dress as an Indian brave wearing a naval commander’s cap and a sash with the letters WFC.

NOT funny.

EXTREMELY FUNNY.

To the other PP, post pics of Sexy Hamas. By the time the 31st rolls around, you might have to switch to Sexy Hezbollah.

[Anonymous]

Are there age limits, OP?

Is it ok for my 25DD to go as a Sexy Whatever? Can I dress as a Sexy Cat/Nurse/Teacher/Construction Worker even though I am not normally sexy and not a cat nor any of those listed professions?

Please answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had the best idea for halloween as a couple, and my husband vetoed it. I wanted to go as the two stranded astronauts and carry signs like "Earth or Bust" and carry a copy of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, pretending to hitchhike home. He said "this is a serious situation, that's not funny at all."

I thought it was.

It is. And also a little dark.

[Anonymous]

Lighten up. It’s Halloween. One night. Have fun or just stay home and close your curtains.

[Anonymous]

I’m dressing up as Sexy RBG.

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I’m going as Sexy Mrs. Roper.

[Anonymous]

I’m wearing a Sexy Banana costume.

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Honestly I love Halloween - the ladies dress slutty and it’s hot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You know what, how about stop being offended at absolutely everything?

Oh please. There are some costumes that are flat out offensive. And people absolutely should not do it and it's not "woke" or whatever to call out those who do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the reminder. I’m going to make sure to dress up as Sexy Hamas. I want to offend as many people as possible.

Cool. I hope you'll show up so we know who the douches in our community are.