Check your costume's privilege

[FindingNamo]

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

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

[PalJoey]

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

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

[HorseTears]

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

Not an Argentinian cowboy, no.

[FindingNamo]

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.

[Sutton Ross]

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

Nope

[Fantod]

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.

[haterobics]

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.

[FindingNamo]

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

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

[sabrelady]

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

I guess no burka for me now :C.

[FindingNamo]

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

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

[sabrelady]

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)

[SNAFU]

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?

[PalJoey]

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

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

[PalJoey]

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

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

[PalJoey]

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

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

[Jungle Red]

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

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

[CarlosAlberto]

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

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

[CarlosAlberto]

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

Marlon Brando in TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON

[PalJoey]

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...

[sabrelady]

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

[PalJoey]

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

[SNAFU]

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

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

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

[sabrelady]

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

So u r going as Shirley Maclaine?

[SNAFU]

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

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

[Wildcard]

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