With Halloween costumes, I just don't understand the fascination of going as "another culture". Although I can see why it's offensive, for me it's more I just don't understand the "why".
Halloween is that one time of year you can get so crazy and creative and go as literally anything you want to, and you turn up in... a cheap "sexy Indian girl" costume straight out the bag from the local pound shop? Make an effort...
Halloween is that one time of year you can get so crazy and creative and go as literally anything you want to, and you turn up in... a cheap "sexy Indian girl" costume straight out the bag from the local pound shop? Make an effort...
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
