Reminder to avoid offensive Halloween costumes

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Anonymous wrote: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

You mean, like drag.

No. Drag is really it's own thing.

So we can’t dress as other races for fun, but men can dress as over the top ridiculous versions of women and we are all supposed to cheer.

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I’m going as a brown star.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure what a costume of a safe space would look like, so I will just go as a trigger.

Good couples costume — one person wears a horse costume (trigger) while the other wears a cardboard box painted like a safe. You’re welcome.

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Anonymous wrote: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

You mean, like drag.

No. Drag is really it's own thing.

So we can’t dress as other races for fun, but men can dress as over the top ridiculous versions of women and we are all supposed to cheer.

No, it would be disgustingly transphobic.

[Anonymous]

I think everyone should go as gay Hamas…not sexy Hamas…just over the top twinks.

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Anonymous wrote: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

You mean, like drag.

No. Drag is really it's own thing.

So we can’t dress as other races for fun, but men can dress as over the top ridiculous versions of women and we are all supposed to cheer.

No, it would be disgustingly transphobic.

Sorry, but drag= mocking women. I’m not transphobic, I’m anti-misogyny.

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Anonymous wrote: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

You mean, like drag.

No. Drag is really it's own thing.

So we can’t dress as other races for fun, but men can dress as over the top ridiculous versions of women and we are all supposed to cheer.

No, it would be disgustingly transphobic.

Sorry, but drag= mocking women. I’m not transphobic, I’m anti-misogyny.

I don’t understand why women can’t see that we are one of the last groups that can be openly belittled, diminished, and joked about without our society objecting to it. And then we are told we have to celebrate it or WE are the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:Last year I went as six-shooter Alec Baldwin. My plan for this year was Biden in a diaper, but that has been overtaken by events. Any suggestions? Something with Diddy baby oil maybe?

Trump in a diaper actively shitting himself while he runs away from debating Harris?

That’s a good idea. My gf will chase me as Harris wearing a pair of knee pads.

Why knee pads? I don’t get it.

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

Kind of like how you are offended by this post.

"annoyed" is not the same as 'offended' DEAR

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I’m either going as Sexy gay Santa or Daniel Ryan Spaulding.

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I’m going as a pink-haired snowflake.

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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.

Kids, you are talking about little kids. Little girls who dress up for Halloween and actually believe that they are indeed little Moanas, Jasmines etc., as for Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White those little strumpets are DOA.

Little girls don’t want to be just pretty things anymore waiting around for some guy to kiss them and save them… girl power!

Any girl and or boy no matter what he/she looks like can be any Disney princess. And yes this goes for the little chubsters too.

You’re generalizing girls as well. It’s ok if a girl wants to be a pretty princess waiting for Prince Charming and it’s ok for her to dress as Travis Kelce.

Traditional girl roles are not gone..maybe in some very niche groups.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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

You mean, like drag.

No. Drag is really it's own thing.

So we can’t dress as other races for fun, but men can dress as over the top ridiculous versions of women and we are all supposed to cheer.

No, it would be disgustingly transphobic.

Sorry, but drag= mocking women. I’m not transphobic, I’m anti-misogyny.

I'm a woman and I have never once thought that a man in drag was mocking me. Not at all.

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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.

I can't believe anyone would think this, let alone post it. This sounds similar to "slaves were better off in America than they were in Africa." She was a person like you or me, with a life, and a family, and a community, and it was all destroyed by foreign invaders. Can you TRY and put yourself in her shoes? Do you think that if your town was invaded, 75 percent of your neighbors were killed or died of disease, you were still in your teens and ended up "married" to one of the invaders and sent to their country, you might try and get along as best you could but maybe...wished none of that had happened?

Also, for those of you dressing up your kids like Pocohontas, the earliest European explorers to the mid-Atlantic reported that the native people wore very little most of the time--the women went topless and the men wore loincloths, kids were mostly naked except in winter. Most adults were also tattooed and scarified on their faces and upper bodies.

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Anonymous wrote: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

You mean, like drag.

No. Drag is really it's own thing.

So we can’t dress as other races for fun, but men can dress as over the top ridiculous versions of women and we are all supposed to cheer.

No, it would be disgustingly transphobic.

Sorry, but drag= mocking women. I’m not transphobic, I’m anti-misogyny.

I'm a woman and I have never once thought that a man in drag was mocking me. Not at all.

But if one woman does then that’s all it takes.