Anonymous
Post 11/02/2023 10:57     Subject: Halloween costume - do you think this is offensive?
Anonymous wrote:My eight year old dressed up as Harry Potter this year. He already wears glasses and has a minor scar on his forehead from a toddler-era accident (not in a lightening bolt shape though) so I helped him draw a small Harry Potter-style scar to complete the look. At a neighborhood Halloween event, another parent confronted me and him about the drawn-on lightening bolt scar and told us how offensive it was.

I understand where this person was coming from in one sense. I think we can all think of examples of Halloween make-up and accessories that are offensive and mocking and/or dehumanizing to people with facial or other physical scars or differences. But I also didn't feel like my kid was denigrating people with facial scars with this particular costume, perhaps in part because he already does have a small, but noticeable, forehead scar. But even if a kid doesn't have a forehead scar, I still think it's acceptable for them to dress as Harry Potter and draw on a lightening bolt.

Anyway, just looking for some outside perspective here and if I should reconsider allowing my younger kid (without glasses or a forehead scar) to recycle this costume a few years from now if he wants.


You are fine! Other parent not so much. Feel free to ignore!
Anonymous
Post 11/02/2023 10:57     Subject: Halloween costume - do you think this is offensive?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The other parent is crazy and needs a hobby.


Wow that's offensive. Do all little races look the same to you?

Hobbis are from Lord of the Rings, not Harry Potter.

You are thinking of House Elf.


Do you put some Baileys in that coffee this morning?!


PP is joking around…

Badly. It deserves to be called out.


And this is another joke? I'm losing track if it's someone making fun of humorless posters or an actual humorless poster.
Anonymous
Post 11/02/2023 10:56     Subject: Re:Halloween costume - do you think this is offensive?
Anonymous wrote:NPR runs a story and no less than 3 different posts, in different forums no less, get created on DCUM about it within a span of two days.

It's kind of amazing to watch polarization get inorganically created in real time.


It's fascinating to watch the constant stream of BS shoved into the conservative outrage machine.
Anonymous
Post 11/02/2023 10:36     Subject: Halloween costume - do you think this is offensive?
Yawn. Troll.
Anonymous
Post 11/02/2023 10:14     Subject: Re:Halloween costume - do you think this is offensive?
NPR runs a story and no less than 3 different posts, in different forums no less, get created on DCUM about it within a span of two days.

It's kind of amazing to watch polarization get inorganically created in real time.
Anonymous
Post 11/02/2023 10:11     Subject: Halloween costume - do you think this is offensive?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The other parent is crazy and needs a hobby.


Wow that's offensive. Do all little races look the same to you?

Hobbis are from Lord of the Rings, not Harry Potter.

You are thinking of House Elf.


Do you put some Baileys in that coffee this morning?!


PP is joking around…

Badly. It deserves to be called out.
Anonymous
Post 11/02/2023 09:41     Subject: Halloween costume - do you think this is offensive?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The other parent is crazy and needs a hobby.


Wow that's offensive. Do all little races look the same to you?

Hobbis are from Lord of the Rings, not Harry Potter.

You are thinking of House Elf.


Do you put some Baileys in that coffee this morning?!


PP is joking around…
Anonymous
Post 11/02/2023 09:28     Subject: Halloween costume - do you think this is offensive?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The other parent is crazy and needs a hobby.


Wow that's offensive. Do all little races look the same to you?

Hobbis are from Lord of the Rings, not Harry Potter.

You are thinking of House Elf.


Do you put some Baileys in that coffee this morning?!
Anonymous
Post 11/02/2023 09:27     Subject: Halloween costume - do you think this is offensive?
Did the other parent actually say the drawn on scar was offensive? Or the fact that he was a character from a known trans phobic author?
Anonymous
Post 11/02/2023 09:19     Subject: Halloween costume - do you think this is offensive?
Anonymous wrote:The other parent is crazy and needs a hobby.


Wow that's offensive. Do all little races look the same to you?

Hobbis are from Lord of the Rings, not Harry Potter.

You are thinking of House Elf.
Anonymous
Post 11/02/2023 09:01     Subject: Halloween costume - do you think this is offensive?
There is literally no way that this actually happened.
Anonymous
Post 11/02/2023 08:53     Subject: Re:Halloween costume - do you think this is offensive?
I would tell the neighbor that I take offense at their being an imaginary person invented for an unconvincing troll post.
Anonymous
Post 11/02/2023 08:21     Subject: Halloween costume - do you think this is offensive?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Not offensive. Hard to believe this happened.


+1
I don't believe it. It was an NPR story, not real life.


+1
Anonymous
Post 11/02/2023 08:20     Subject: Halloween costume - do you think this is offensive?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Not offensive. Hard to believe this happened.


+1
I don't believe it. It was an NPR story, not real life.


I wish it hadn't happened! My kid has seemingly never been bothered about having a facial scar but after the confrontation he was asking if people would make fun him for it.

Maybe the NPR story is where my neighbor got the idea.


Your neighbor is nuts and can’t think for themselves. It’s not offensive and I’m Sorry your son now has a complex.


Yup- they are total on the I'm Offended Now Too Bandwagon Even Though This Never Occurred to Me Before The News Article.

Kind of like the idiots who decider "Trader Jose" was all of a sudden offensive because Queen Offensive pointed it out first.
Anonymous
Post 11/02/2023 08:17     Subject: Halloween costume - do you think this is offensive?
Anonymous wrote:I would tell the other parent to pound sand.


I would have used a more aggressive expression using expletives.