Originally Posted by RyanC

People who dress up as the undead and alter their skin to mimic the appearance of a decaying corpse deeply offend me because my deceased relatives and ancestors are not among the living.

Also, guys who dress up as women for Halloween also offend me because I have female friends and there is a past history of discrimination and violence against women.




get over it, your argument is stupid

LOVE this. people will say that youre being immature with this post, but this is the EXACT same logic that people use when they say something like black face is racial discrimination. Thank you for this!!!

Race, culture and religions =/= costumes. To use them as such trivializes them. You have no right to tell people what they should and shouldn't be offended by.

Originally Posted by ooburii

Race, culture and religions =/= costumes. To use them as such trivializes them. You have no right to tell people what they should and shouldn't be offended by.

Isn't Hallowe'en one big trivialization of paganism? Don't most people choose their costumes because they respect the person they're portraying anyways? You don't see much of Día de Muertos celebrators getting all out of whack because of the yearly Zombie Walk.

Anyways; today I saw: a white girl in white face, a black girl of mixed Caucasian descent in white/black face, a black girl in white face, and a white girl in black face (although it was more of a goulish appearance).

i thought it was a pretty stupid and blown out of proportion issue

Originally Posted by BobSmith99

Sounds like Ben started this thread to just piss people off

It's just that many people get pissed off too easily, as long as there is no underlying hateful intent in doing it, then what is the issue? I think today's society is overly sensitive to be even productive at all!

have any of you ever seen tropic thunder? i think if anyone gets offended by a 'blackface', they've been brainwashed by mass media. its called freedom for a reason. dont tread on me.

Originally Posted by BobSmith99

Sounds like Ben started this thread to just piss people off

Originally Posted by allanandthera

It's just that many people get pissed off too easily, as long as there is no underlying hateful intent in doing it, then what is the issue? I think today's society is overly sensitive to be even productive at all!

The purpose of this thread was to call out how overly sensitive society has become, and i felt this issue was a prime example to illustrate my point.

But keep hating on my thread if you want, im glad its generating some meaningful debate either way