Check your costume's privilege

#1

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 10/31/14 at 4:51pm

It's from last year… but still.
http://everydayfeminism.com/2013/10/is-your-halloween-costume-racist/

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#2

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 10/31/14 at 5:02pm

So I can't go as an Indian. Can I go as a Cowboy?

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#3

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 10/31/14 at 5:04pm

Not an Argentinian cowboy, no.

#4

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 10/31/14 at 5:07pm

One year I wore a Hooters t-shirt and a name tag that said "Some Straight Guy" and I kept my ass crack exposed all day. A sensitive barista saw it and said "ouch." I didn't realize it might have been because I appropriated his culture.

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#5

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 10/31/14 at 5:07pm

Nope

#6

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 10/31/14 at 5:12pm

These people piss me off so much because a lot of what they have to say is valid, they just find the most annoying and preachy way to say it. Also, the phrase "check your privilege" makes me immediately want to slap the person who says it.

#7

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 10/31/14 at 8:19pm

There's always a loophole. You can't dress as a cowboy or an Indian, but if a group of you dress up as The Village People, you're fine.

#8

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 10/31/14 at 8:31pm

Cowboys are fine. Just white dudes shouldn't be Black Bart from Blazing Saddles.

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#9

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 10/31/14 at 8:33pm

I guess no burka for me now :C.

#10

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 10/31/14 at 8:43pm

To be fair, nobody would know you're appropriating. You could just be a Muslim lady shopping.

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#11

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 10/31/14 at 9:21pm

So- if nobody else knows- it doesn't count.

( like the tree in the forest which, by the way, does make a sound when it falls)

#12

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 10/31/14 at 10:45pm

Where is the line? If, lets say, I wanted to go as a charater from a Noh play, is that racist? Or because I am not Japanese it would be considered racist? What is an African American Child wanted to be a Geisha? Racist?

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Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!

#13

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 11/1/14 at 12:05am

So I suppose I have to retire my Joan Crawford-in-Torch-Song get-up?

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#14

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 11/1/14 at 12:06am

And my Katharine-Hepburn-in-Lute-Song?

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#15

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 11/1/14 at 12:10am

And I suppose my Judy-Garland-in-Everybody-Sing is definitely de trop.

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#16

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 11/1/14 at 1:24am

I guess I shouldn't go as this then either.

#17

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 11/1/14 at 12:23pm

....I give to you Mr. Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi in Blake Edwards' BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S

#18

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 11/1/14 at 12:24pm

Marlon Brando in TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON

#19

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 11/1/14 at 1:53pm

All right, gang, I think we have the makings of next year's BROADWAYWORLD POLITICALLY INCORRECT HALLOWEEN PARTY...

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#20

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 11/1/14 at 2:20pm

I guess Lady Carolyn Lamb is a no no too?

Updated On: 11/1/14 at 02:20 PM

#21

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 11/1/14 at 5:00pm

Somebody on the Kardashians got in trouble for dressing like an Arab sheik.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/adamdavis/scott-disick-offensive-costume

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#22

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 11/1/14 at 8:11pm

Next year I am going as a Black Indian Princess Geisha for Halloween!

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Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!

Updated On: 11/1/14 at 08:11 PM

#23

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 11/1/14 at 8:14pm

So u r going as Shirley Maclaine?

#24

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 11/1/14 at 9:01pm

YES! Shirley and all her past lives! Is that racist?

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Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!

#25

Check your costume's privilege

Posted: 11/1/14 at 11:40pm

I once dressed up as Simba from the Lion King. As I am neither African nor a lion, I must be racist