Reminder to avoid offensive Halloween costumes

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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.

I could be all those things if I dressed up as Donald Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like Slutty Hamas and a Pager are the winners for 2024. Gotta love Halloween

Kamala & Willie Brown should be popular couples’ outfits this year. I guess only half-Indian /half-black girls can don the oversized pantsuit as Kamala.

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Anonymous wrote:I am going to be a sexy, old, pregnant nun in a wheelchair, wearing a Native American head dress.

Did I miss anything?

Please come to my house! I give out full size candy bars.

I will answer the door in drag - dressed as Richard Simmons in a micro Afro wig, tank top and short striped dolfin shorts.

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One year, a guy friend and I wore tee shirts, white sneakers and shoved pillows down our oversized sweatpants and went as a couple with enormous behinds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pocahontas dressed as an English woman after she married. Was she racist?

Away and take yer face for a shite, yeh numpty eejit.

Pocahontas was kidnapped and forced to marry John Rolfe. She mourned a newborn son and a husband. She was brought to England and murdered. You think this was an effing love story and she liked the dresses?

THESE are the numbskulls who deride us for "wokeness", FFS

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like Slutty Hamas and a Pager are the winners for 2024. Gotta love Halloween

Kamala & Willie Brown should be popular couples’ outfits this year. I guess only half-Indian /half-black girls can don the oversized pantsuit as Kamala.

Who?

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Anonymous wrote:Well that doesn't leave anything fun. Not even the sexy corn cob would make the cut.

There's nothwrong with dressing up as a corn cob.

Look, going as President Taft is fine and going as "a fat person" is not. Going as Moana is fine, going as "a Polynesian" is not. This isn't hard.

Even if any child in 2024 would dress up as Taft, you would definitely not know the difference between that and a “fat person” costume.

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Anonymous wrote:Pocahontas dressed as an English woman after she married. Was she racist?

Away and take yer face for a shite, yeh numpty eejit.

Pocahontas was kidnapped and forced to marry John Rolfe. She mourned a newborn son and a husband. She was brought to England and murdered. You think this was an effing love story and she liked the dresses?

THESE are the numbskulls who deride us for "wokeness", FFS

DP. Maybe she did. I mean, a little enjoyment in a hard life is better than none. And let's be honest, a lot of people had hard lives back then.

[Anonymous]

I'm one of the ethnicities mentioned here that dressing up as would be offensive.

First, it's actually really offensive for white people to deem what's offensive on behalf of another culture/race.

Second, it's always seemed like the general rule is that if you're going to dress as a certain cultural figure or similar, keep it authentic. It becomes offensive when it becomes a stereotype or charicatrue of that ethnicity or culture

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems like Slutty Hamas and a Pager are the winners for 2024. Gotta love Halloween

God I love this town.

[Anonymous]

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Guess the safe bet is to stick with the Disney Princess… plenty culturally appropriate ones to choose from. Cinderella is a classic.

Here's the official guide:
If you're White -
allowed: Belle, Aurora, Elsa, Anna, Rapunzel, Merida, Cinderella, Ariel, Snow White
not allowed: Tiana, Mulan, Pocahontas, Moana, Jasmine

If you're Black -
allowed: Tiana, Cinderella, Ariel, Moana (if you squint)
not allowed: Belle, Aurora, Elsa, Anna, Rapunzel, Merida, Snow White, Pocahontas, Mulan, Jasmine

But only Merida and Ariel if you're a natural redhead, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:I am going to be a sexy, old, pregnant nun in a wheelchair, wearing a Native American head dress.

Did I miss anything?

A pager. 💥

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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 would absolutely be racist to dress your child as Pocahontas if she is white.

Oh, there you are! Hi from a few years ago. So glad you're back.

So can my White kid dress like Moana because she's fake? Or can my White kid only dress like other white people/characters?

Can Black kids not dress like Cinderella because she's white? Or is that ok because she's fake? Can they dress like RBG?

Cinderella doesn’t have to be white.

Cinderella, the character, is white. A princess can be any color, obviously. Cinderella herself is white.

Otherwise I could say that Jasmine doesn't have to be Indian. Moana doesn't have to be Polynesian.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Pocahontas dressed as an English woman after she married. Was she racist?

Away and take yer face for a shite, yeh numpty eejit.

Pocahontas was kidnapped and forced to marry John Rolfe. She mourned a newborn son and a husband. She was brought to England and murdered. You think this was an effing love story and she liked the dresses?

THESE are the numbskulls who deride us for "wokeness", FFS

Bet you are the life of the party.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Guess the safe bet is to stick with the Disney Princess… plenty culturally appropriate ones to choose from. Cinderella is a classic.

Here's the official guide:
If you're White -
allowed: Belle, Aurora, Elsa, Anna, Rapunzel, Merida, Cinderella, Ariel, Snow White
not allowed: Tiana, Mulan, Pocahontas, Moana, Jasmine

If you're Black -
allowed: Tiana, Cinderella, Ariel, Moana (if you squint)
not allowed: Belle, Aurora, Elsa, Anna, Rapunzel, Merida, Snow White, Pocahontas, Mulan, Jasmine

I actually disagree with all of this.

ANY little girl of ANY race can dress as ANY of these princesses. They all have ready-made costumes (clothing, accessories like handbags or objects) that are clearly indicative of the character. What you can't do is paint your skin a different color or get a wig that is egregiously appropriating another culture. For example: if a Black girl wears an Ariel wig, totally cool. If a blonde White girl wears a wig with straight dark hair to play Mulan, I'd say that's also probably fine (not not necessary). What is not fine is for the same White kid to wear an afro wig from Party City to play Tiana, which is neither necessary nor appropriate.

Any little girl in a light blue princess dress and clear shows in Cinderella, no matter her skin color or hair type. Just like any little girl in a Hawaiian shirt carrying around a green stuffy is Lilo. It's not complicated, and it doesn't need to be offensive or literal.

This makes no sense. Are you saying that because Tiana doesn't have an afro? Or because it's ok to wear a wig to look Asian, but not Black?