Racially insensitive halloween costume?

[Anonymous]

Or isn't it tasteless and offensive to Catholics to see women dressed as pregnant nuns?

Yes. It is.

[Anonymous]

Put all of your geisha-like comments into this context. Is it okay to blacken your face and dress like an African native. If the answer is not (as it should be for any thinking individual), then other cultures and races should also be respected. Basically, folks Halloween isn't an excuse to make a mockery or belittle others.

[Anonymous]

Why do you assume it isa white person who doesn't understand the meaning of "garb"? It could be anyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:this is insensitive and offends me

You have got to be kidding me..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Or isn't it tasteless and offensive to Catholics to see women dressed as pregnant nuns?

Yes. It is.

So, let's demand that this be banned too?

"it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangu­tan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversation­ist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule. If Mor­mons do not like my plays, let them write their own. If the Irish hate my Dublin stories, let them rent type-writers. If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture. If the Chicano intel­lectuals wish to re-cut my “Wonderful Ice Cream Suit” so it shapes “Zoot,” may the belt unravel and the pants fall."

-- Ray Bradbury

[Anonymous]

Actually, very tasteless. Why do people think Halloween should be open season to be jackasses? I guess you all aren't so enlightened, openminded and PC as you pretend to be.

[Anonymous]

http://theeducatedfieldnegro.tumblr.com/post/34255371608/my-ethnicity-is-not-a-costume

Excellent explanation with pictures why ethnicity in costumes is racist and insensitive. Educate your selves and open your narrow minds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone's heritage or culture should not be used as a Halloween "costume".

co-signed. Because there's nothing at all racist about this: http://www.chasing-fireflies.com/mens-native-american-costume/productinfo/42068/ or this: http://www.chasing-fireflies.com/mens-indian-brave-costume/productinfo/32740/ or the fact that the costume you mentioned pops up when you seach "geisha": http://www.chasing-fireflies.com/red-kimono-princess-costume/productinfo/34987/ I'd avoid that catalog on principle...

You could dress up as any muthafuckin' mythical made up whatever you want, and you pick "caricature of another person's culture" for your kid's costume?

C'mon.

Good grief, that Native American costume comes with a tomahawk!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Or isn't it tasteless and offensive to Catholics to see women dressed as pregnant nuns?

Yes. It is.

So, let's demand that this be banned too?

"it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangu­tan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversation­ist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule. If Mor­mons do not like my plays, let them write their own. If the Irish hate my Dublin stories, let them rent type-writers. If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture. If the Chicano intel­lectuals wish to re-cut my “Wonderful Ice Cream Suit” so it shapes “Zoot,” may the belt unravel and the pants fall."

-- Ray Bradbury

See, this is why nobody should ever cite Ray Bradbury when it comes to politics (as opposed to literature). Because the real world is not actually the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. The ideal world might be. But the real world isn't.

[Anonymous]

What about this one:


or this one

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Put all of your geisha-like comments into this context. Is it okay to blacken your face and dress like an African native. If the answer is not (as it should be for any thinking individual), then other cultures and races should also be respected. Basically, folks Halloween isn't an excuse to make a mockery or belittle others.

Are you really trying to compare painting on black skin color to wearing a kimono? You do realize that one is an aspect of one's race and the other is an aspect of one's culture? Apples and oranges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wearing a kimono isn't mocking a race or culture, so there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. What if a non-white kid wanted to dress up as Abe Lincoln for Halloween...is that okay? I think it is. On Halloween, you can dress up however you like....that's the point of the holiday. I am the whitest white girl you'll ever meet, and I (along with others) wore traditional garb when I was a bridesmaid in weddings of friends who are Chinese and Indian. Clothing isn't off limits for people just because their skin color or ethnicity don't quite fit in. Seriously, folks....everyone needs to dial it down.

I bet all the folks who say its inappropriate are boring white people who think everything is off limits or not PC.

I stopped reading after "whitest white girl"

Does that mean you are Albino? Or is that a way of saying you are racially pure?

Is there a white girl contest that you won that makes you "The Whitest"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

http://theeducatedfieldnegro.tumblr.com/post/34255371608/my-ethnicity-is-not-a-costume

Excellent explanation with pictures why ethnicity in costumes is racist and insensitive. Educate your selves and open your narrow minds.

The author's chief complaint, though, is that the costumes are overly sexualized. However, MANY Halloween costumes are overly sexualized, if that's the type of costume you are looking for.

Just Google: "sexy nun costume" or "sexy crayon costume" or God forbid, "Sexy gorilla costume".

No one is singling out certain ethnicities for over sexualization of their costumes. HALLOWEEN COSTUMES in general are being oversexualized.

Seriously, I dare you. Google "Sexy Gorilla Costume."

http://www.costumecraze.com/ANML27.html

I remember this thread from 2 years ago....

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/190191.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Come on, everyone knows CARLOS DANGER will be this year's most popular Halloween costume.

Umm, nope. It will be Miley Cyrus as the twerkin' sex pot fool.

[Anonymous]

Are you really trying to compare painting on black skin color to wearing a kimono? You do realize that one is an aspect of one's race and the other is an aspect of one's culture? Apples and oranges. [/quote

Way to justify your racism. Just remember to keep your trap shut when someone shoes up wearing an Afro wig and sporting blackface. It is not apples to oranges no matter how much you want to protest.