Have you ever dressed up for Halloween or college party in a racially sensitive costume?

[Anonymous]

I was part of an oreo and milk one year in college. 2 of us were the chocolate cookies, 1 was the creme filling, and 1 was a glass of milk. But we truly intended to represent the cookie (which we were big fans of in our dorm that year), not the more derogatory meaning of oreo. I am not sure most of us even knew the term oreo back then.

[Anonymous]

I dressed as a gypsy for Halloween when I was about 8. I'm 40 now and came across the picture a year or two ago in a photo album. I'm not worried it will come back to haunt me or anything--I've got no plans to run for office--but it did make me reflect on how unthinking even my white, Jewish, liberal family was 30 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Once my Indian roommate wanted me to wear one of her saris and she would dress me up for Halloween. I was interested, but ultimately decided against it because I didn't want anyone to think it was insensitive. She said she didn't think it was offensive, but I was afraid others might.
Then, I more recently wanted to go as the bearded lady from The Greatest Showman, and my sister said that offensive [to women with beards], so I didn't do it either.

So I guess no... unless being Hawaiian theme is insensitive (?). I have worn a bikini top / hula skirt 20 years ago.

I am sure I went to a mixers that couldn't happen anymore... pimps and hoes... Secretaries and CEOs...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My brother and I were Indians one year, my mom even made a papoose for my doll baby. I give 0 f*** I was like 4 and cowboys and indians were totally a thing in the 70's,

But you do now realize how offensive and wrong that was, right PP?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Never. I don't know how you make it to adulthood, and can be such an ignorant idiot, honestly.

When I was a kid, my cousins made up a derogatory song about East Asians. Which was weird, because we're South Asian ourselves. But we were in Elementary school - I was probably 5-6 the last time we "sang" it. I was horrified about it by the time I was in upper elementary school, and I would be hugely embarrassed if I were "outed" about it - but at the same time, Kindergartners just don't know any better. If you're an adult and you don't know any better... I don't think you can excuse it on "well it was ok back then." I figure they must have led a severely sheltered, privileged life to be so insensitive.

Woke from birth. Gold star!

Signed,
An ignorant idiot who somehow made it to adulthood. Will you look at that!

Yeah I'm going to go ahead and guess you remain an ignorant idiot in adulthood.

Quite honestly I’d rather remain an ignorant idiot than partake in all this virtue signaling fake woke look at me working for the cause but in reality doing nothing to bring about change except for banging away at my keyboard bs culture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once my Indian roommate wanted me to wear one of her saris and she would dress me up for Halloween. I was interested, but ultimately decided against it because I didn't want anyone to think it was insensitive. She said she didn't think it was offensive, but I was afraid others might.
Then, I more recently wanted to go as the bearded lady from The Greatest Showman, and my sister said that offensive [to women with beards], so I didn't do it either.

So I guess no... unless being Hawaiian theme is insensitive (?). I have worn a bikini top / hula skirt 20 years ago.

I am sure I went to a mixers that couldn't happen anymore... pimps and hoes... Secretaries and CEOs...

Hawaiian shirts are a symbol of an extremist movement known as “Boog bios” - who include armed LGTBQ activists like Ryan Teeter:



“Teeter, in an interview with CNN, said he identifies as an anarchist. His mission in Minneapolis, he said, was to protect protesters from police abuse and white supremacists, whom he deplores.

"I'm a member of the LGBT community," said Teeter, who describes himself as a non-voting "left anarchist...People think I'm part of a Nazi group; I'm not."
But, he added, "I don't think people should be forced to bake the cake," referring to a US Supreme Court case that stemmed from the refusal of a Christian owner of a bakery in Colorado to provide a wedding cake for a gay couple.”

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/us/boogaloo-extremist-protests-invs/index.html

[Anonymous]

I dressed myself up as a geisha in the late 70s including heavy white makeup all over my face and a kimono. Had absolutely no idea what I was doing and I had no knowledge of Japanese culture or what a geisha actually was. I was just dressing from pictures I thought were intriguing. I was in my early teens.

[Anonymous]

I once dressed up as a homeless person, but I said my costume was a "bum".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was the Statue of Liberty when i was 10, is that offensive?

I was the Statue of Liberty when I was 12 in 1965!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone name a Halloween costume that is not offensive to some group somewhere? ? (I can’t).

My 3 year old was a dinosaur last year. The year before that she was Winnie the Pooh.

I can’t think of how those could be offensive?

Winnie the Pooh is offense to Chinese and Chinese-Americans:


https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855

That’s because people use him to make fun of Xi, not because of the character in itself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone name a Halloween costume that is not offensive to some group somewhere? ? (I can’t).

My 3 year old was a dinosaur last year. The year before that she was Winnie the Pooh.

I can’t think of how those could be offensive?

Are you new here?

Dcum hates Disney. Start a thread, and haters will explain why Disney is evil and why anyone who likes them/supports them is equal parts evil and trashy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I once dressed up as a homeless person, but I said my costume was a "bum".

I find that a million times more offensive than dressing up as a southern belle or sexy Indian since both are period costumes (native Americans don’t wear a sexy pochahontas dress).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I once dressed up as a homeless person, but I said my costume was a "bum".

Isn't "hobo" a classic halloween costume?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I once dressed up as a homeless person, but I said my costume was a "bum".

I find that a million times more offensive than dressing up as a southern belle or sexy Indian since both are period costumes (native Americans don’t wear a sexy pochahontas dress).

Welp. I was 8 and made my own costume, based off a "bum" who lived around the stores in my neighborhood. The next year, I was an angel. Come at me!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I once dressed up as a homeless person, but I said my costume was a "bum".

Isn't "hobo" a classic halloween costume?

Yeah, I guess if I called it Hobo rather than bum, that would've been less......insensitive? I remember rubbing dirt on my face and arms for realism.