What are you dressing up as for Halloween

Luigi! That would have been epic. I sort of wanted to be the Joker last year, but I usually go for funny rather than legit. Though a Riddler costume... that'd be legit, for sure!

I think I'm going as a Candy Corn Witch! XD But I'm not sure, I might find a cuter coustume though!

IMA BE A ZOMBIE!!

i mean a zombie veteran!

Matthew G. Lestrange wrote:Alas, it is too late for me to get the material for my costume! I was supposed to go as Luigi, the famed brother of the red cap! However my friend had the BEST Joker costume he wore today. It was literally....creepy and he scared alot of people. Next year...I will be more prepared. I have already planned to go as the Riddler! I like green if you haven't noticed xD

GAH! Brilliance! The Riddler is one of my favorite comic book villains, fallowing closley behind Bullseye and Magneto- Damian Skeeter actually has a little Riddler thrown into him. I’m curious; what sort of Riddler costume do you have in mind? I went as Poison Ivy last year, we could have made a great pair. =P

I was thinking kind of a home made one. Almost like the one that's coming in the new Batman movie. Green Bowler hat, pinstripped (spelling?) suit with a bunch of question marks on it, green pants, green shoes, and of course...the super special awesome riddler cane...which I will need to search high and low for. My friend said we'd go as a duo if his costume fit next year xD

Jaquellene "Jack" Dyllan wrote:I don't have any yet, but I'm dressing up as a gay guy. Mostly because I love gay guys (the past three guys I've liked turned out to be gay... and then there's Kurt Hummel XD) and because my drama teacher keeps casting me as guy roles... So, I'm gonna mess with him. I'm wearing a rainbow shirt, skinny jeans, vest, boots, a kerchief/scarf, tap shoes, and doing my hair very short. Should be fun. XD

Jack, I don't wanna rain on your parade, but has it occured to you how dressing as a gay person for halloween could be interpreted?

Actually, I know it hasn't because you obviously don't think that way (which is kind of a good thing, but also kind of shows that you don't have to worry about it). But one of the reasons gay men are oppressed is because straight men see them as a threat. A threat to their sexuality, but also a threat to their physical person, to the extent that straight men have built up myths and stereotypes about gay men's sexual appetites and some people actually think most pedophiles are gay (completely untrue).

And I know you don't mean it that way, but dressing as a member of a minority group on the night of the year that's traditionally associated with horror and fright is not a good idea.

You can see how even if it's a joke, it could make you look really bad, can't you?

Just one question for you Selwyn; was that honestly necessary? Can we have one thread without someone putting a damper on it. But I mean c'mon, I doubt anyone is going to go up to Jack and say "I hate you" on Halloween because she's dressed as a homosexual. Plus that's completely off topic. This about what you're dressing up as for Halloween.

Well I've narrowed it down...I can either go as a black veiled bride...or as Alice from the resident evil movies...I actually have the alice costume...well pretty much have it...but I also have all of the black veiled bride costume lol...I'm so confused...but I like your ideas Matt!!!!

Matthew, I'm not putting a dampener on the thread. I'm letting Jack know that her costume could be offensive to people in a way she obviously hasn't even considered. I wouldn't expect her to have considered it, either.

But if it was me, I'd prefer for someone to tell me that something I was doing was potentially offensive to other people, rather than having them not say anything for fear of upsetting me, and then find out that I'd gone out and hurt a whole heap of people's feelings without knowing.

And this isn't just about if a gay person sees Jack and thinks she's picking on them, it's about if a homophobic person sees her and thinks she agrees with them.

I have considered it, but I made sure the way I act is also very appropriate. I did not do anything that could be counted as for or against gay people and I even took the opportunity once people talked to me about my costume to explain that I was not teasing gay people in the least. This was my reasoning to them:

What do people dress up for as Halloween? Things that scare and things they adore- why else would people dress up as movie characters that they like? I explained my reasoning because I love gay people.

The thing about me dressing up like that is that it was not too extreme in any way. Some people can be found wearing a lot of the clothes I wore, so one kid even told me he realized there was not that much of a difference in the way a gay guy dressed and some other kids did. Obviously, that's not the only reason people are homophobic, but at my school at least, appearance is the main one.

And I ran into a few gay kids at my school and they all loved my costume. They said it was really well-thought out and cute. The good thing about it is, it is not totally obvious (actually I could pass for a prince/pirate) and people will not fully get the concept unless they ask me, in which I am careful to express I am not trying to be offensive in any way.