Reply to Racially insensitive halloween costume?

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "Racially insensitive halloween costume?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I don't think adding whiskers makes your costume any more "authentic." Easier to discern, sure. But Halloween isn't particularly about "authenticity," sometimes, at least when you're a little girl, it's about wearing something pretty and out of the ordinary, like a kimono or a sari or a bunad. It's trying on another persona. I was a nurse in the first grade; so sue me, my costume was accurate(-ish) to the 1940s, and not to what nurses wore in the 1980s when I wore the costume.
[/quote]
Halloween can and should also be a time when we teach our children not to throw out their morality and sense of social justice just so they can "dress pretty".  It is teaching them right from wrong and explaining why wearing that pretty kimono is akin to dressing like an American Indian or AA.  It is appropriating a something from another culture or race in a way that may be offensive to others, and thus, perhaps that doctor or nurse, or kitty cat, or astronaut costume which is race and culture neutral would be a better choice.[/quote]

so a little Japanese girl can't wear a kimono because it's racially insensitive. 
And how do you dress up like a AA? seriously, how would you do that?[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics