Anonymous wrote:I find it very offensive when non-Celts celebrate Halloween. Not sure why everyone thinks it's okay to appropriate a holiday meant to honor saints and the dead.

The same reason agnostics, athesists, and other non-Christians have Christmas trees and give Christmas gifts as well as Easter Baskets.

Y’all should dress up as White Privilege for Halloween.

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

Wow, how original.

Anonymous wrote:Please, a case of Hershey bars to a dcumer who'll dress as a typical dcumer . What would that involve? I want to speak to your manager/Karen trope? A mom in yoga pants? God forbid, a mom in now out of fashion over the knee boots with skinny jeans?

You’re overinvested in this.

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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.

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.

Question: how does a kid dress up like Jose Andres beyond a chef coat?

You could take a sharpie and write Jose Andres in cursive on the chef coat (I've seen him wear a coat embroidered like that), and give him some kind of food or kitchen implement prop. Maybe add a chef hat?

Bring a poster cutout of Puerto Rico and have Jose feed it constantly. The man is a saint.

FEMA reportedly awarded Andrés two short-term contracts worth a combined $11.5 million to assist in relief work. Andrés's Washington-based organization, World Central Kitchen, has served millions of meals to Puerto Ricans as the island recovers from Hurricane Maria. (Noting he was paid millions to do it, but his PR team spun it like charity. He's a shrewd businessman, not Mother Teresa.)

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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.

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.

Question: how does a kid dress up like Jose Andres beyond a chef coat?

You could take a sharpie and write Jose Andres in cursive on the chef coat (I've seen him wear a coat embroidered like that), and give him some kind of food or kitchen implement prop. Maybe add a chef hat?

Bring a poster cutout of Puerto Rico and have Jose feed it constantly. The man is a saint.

You can't do that. Puerto Ricans might take offense. Talking about hurricanes is offensive. White kid dressing up like a Latino is offensive.

Heck, what if you've never heard of Jose Andres before, and you send your kid out in a chef coat with the name Jose Andres on it? Chew on that.