With Halloween coming, lets just define what is Cultural Appropriation

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids will wear whatever they want. Everyone else can shut up and deal with it. That is all.

The problem isn't really people "shutting up" about it. But sure, dress your child in racially insensitive costumes. That's a great look...

If a black child wears a Batman costume would you consider that racially insensitive? Let's be honest....no costume is ACTUALLY racially insensitive. That is just made up hysteria.

Please go back to your planned/gated community in Ashburn or somewhere equally as awful.

Np: Well, that’s kind and not at all judgmental.
- signed someone from an even further out planned/gated community.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Halloween is in 2 months!!! You are worse than a department store with their Christmas trees in October.

1- The Halloween? Wut?
2- ... I mean. it's literally 2 months and 2 days until not just the month of October, but the actual holiday of Halloween. Stores putting out trees in OCtober, for a December 25 holiday is 2 months + up to 24 days. So ding dong youi're wrong.

Thank you. That was really bothering me too.

[Anonymous]

Don't change your skin tone

Don't dress up as a controversial figure frequently whitewashed by history (ie, Pocahontas).

Don't wear things that are religious symbols to another culture (this was the issue with Maui's tattoos)

If you do none of this you're almost certainly safe.

[Anonymous]

Basically —- use common sense: don’t do anything that is insulting to someone’s culture.

Unfortunately stupid terms like “culture appropriation” entered our lexicon and now people have these eye rolling debates.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If y'all are that damn scared of being on the wrong end of political correctness then why don't you just stick with traditional Halloween costumes - ghosts and witches and vampires. Far less likelihood that someone will take offense. Don't want your toddler in something scary? Fine, put em in a pumpkin outfit (so cute, love those) or dress them up as an animal or a robot or doctor or an astronaut. My personal non-offensive favorite - Darth Vader. Beauty of Lord Vader is that you can't tell who's underneath the mask so anybody and everybody can rock that costume. Point is, it's not as hard to stay away from potentially controversial costumes as y'all seem to think.

I don't know, PP. What if my cute toddler in a round pumpkin costume happens upon a very obese homeowner, who is sensitive to the fact that he, in fact, does look like a pumpkin?

Lol well technically said homeowner is not an actual pumpkin nor is he even a fruit (yes, pumpkins are fruits...so many people mistake them for vegetables) so whatever negative insinuations said homeowner makes based on his sensitivities are not the fault of your cute toddler nor you the parent of that cute toddler.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids will wear whatever they want. Everyone else can shut up and deal with it. That is all.

The problem isn't really people "shutting up" about it. But sure, dress your child in racially insensitive costumes. That's a great look...

If a black child wears a Batman costume would you consider that racially insensitive? Let's be honest....no costume is ACTUALLY racially insensitive. That is just made up hysteria.

Please go back to your planned/gated community in Ashburn or somewhere equally as awful.

Np: Well, that’s kind and not at all judgmental.
- signed someone from an even further out planned/gated community.

+1
-signed someone who lives in DC but doesn't look down on people who live in suburbs

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dressing up as a specific person or specific character? Fine.

Dressing up as some vague, broad, cultural concept or clothing? Absolutely wrong. Other cultures, nationalities, etc are not "costumes."

Thank you so much PP. I am so happy to have your personal approval of my kids' costumes. I can now go on with my day, knowing that you have deemed their ideas 'fine."

You're welcome. Sometimes other people parent little sh!ts because the parents are big sh!ts themselves. No one likes parenting other people's kids, but if some parents raise their children to be rabid and reckless, I'm more than happy to step up to the plate for where the parents failed to be decent, compassionate, empathetic human beings.

Translation: You're a PITA know-it-all?

[Anonymous]

Best way not to offend anyone is to go naked.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To me, one can dress up as an actual person - Geronimo or Obama or RBG or Trump or Jose Andres or Miguel from Coco. But, one can not dress up like a generic category of people - Native American, White Person, Black Person, Spanish Person, Gay Person - because to do that is invoking stereotypes and other generalizations.

And if you're dressing up as actual person, you don't need to pick things they had no choice over - pick things that they defined about themselves. You don't need to paint your skin black to dress up as Obama or craft a "Jewish nose" to dress up as RBG. Much better to pick something like a Nobel medal and a presidential seal for Obama, and a fancy collar with judicial robes for RBG.

Yep...that's pretty much all you need to know summarized in 2 posts. But, do whatever you want and deal with the fall out if you're really starving for attention.

The only thing I'd add is that you can't dress as an actual character, if that character is a racist stereotype. Apu from the Simpsons, and Tiger Lily from Peter Pan are examples of that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a different thread. The other thread said little girls can't be Moana or Jasmine or Tiana unless they were POC.

Can then a POC be a caucasian Disney character?

[Anonymous]

I'm worried that my RBG ensemble will be mistaken for Judge Judy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dressing up as a specific person or specific character? Fine.

Dressing up as some vague, broad, cultural concept or clothing? Absolutely wrong. Other cultures, nationalities, etc are not "costumes."

Thank you so much PP. I am so happy to have your personal approval of my kids' costumes. I can now go on with my day, knowing that you have deemed their ideas 'fine."

You're welcome. Sometimes other people parent little sh!ts because the parents are big sh!ts themselves. No one likes parenting other people's kids, but if some parents raise their children to be rabid and reckless, I'm more than happy to step up to the plate for where the parents failed to be decent, compassionate, empathetic human beings.

Translation: You're a PITA know-it-all?

+1
yes, please "step up to the plate" to be the one to save us all

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To me, one can dress up as an actual person - Geronimo or Obama or RBG or Trump or Jose Andres or Miguel from Coco. But, one can not dress up like a generic category of people - Native American, White Person, Black Person, Spanish Person, Gay Person - because to do that is invoking stereotypes and other generalizations.

What DC hipster kid named Bear or Linus has parents forcing him to dress like Jose Andres?

This just might be the most DCUM-iest post on DCUM ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a different thread. The other thread said little girls can't be Moana or Jasmine or Tiana unless they were POC.

That's bs. That's setting the tone that characters that are POC aren't cool enough to be costumes the way that Captain America, Thor, etc are. This same bs was being brought up last year regarding Black Panther.
I'm HAPPY that so many kids wanted to dress as that character, white or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So we don't get 500 posts all asking about individual costumes.
What is off limits beside painting skin?
Wigs ok? (afro, black, blonde, red, rainbow)
Real people ok? (barak obama, ruth bader ginsberg, donald trump,
Characters ok? (Ariel, Black Panther, Batman, Little Bo Peep)
Accessories ok? (sword, tomahawk, whip)

You don't have to read any posts you don't want to.