Boston marathon bombing halloween costume

krazykidd

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I'm on her side. Did everyone suddenly forget what horror is? Holloween isn't about being cute.
 

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krazykidd said:
I'm on her side. Did everyone suddenly forget what horror is? Holloween isn't about being cute.
Apparently people have. For example, you have mistaken this:
for this:

Dressing up as a grotesque monster or a mutilated dead body is Horror. Dressing up as a victim to a recent tragedy is offensive. It doesn't make people feel creeped out or grossed out, it just offends like shitting on someones table. It's also utterly pretentious "oh look at me, challenging conceptions of social decency" which ultimately makes you look like "a fucking asshole".

But who said Halloween is solely about horror?

A good Halloween costume is something that skirts nightmares with jovial antics. People dress up for fun. Halloween is FESTIVE after all. Whether it be silly costumes or really graphic costumes, watching spooky movies, playing pranks, eating copious amounts of Halloween themed garbage or decorating your house with cobwebs and ghost lights, Halloween is about people having fun.

But for some reason I can't quite get, some people assume it's one night where you can be the biggest douche going with no consequence, only to find in the following days that people don't forget douchebags or give them a free pass just because one day of the year is different to all the rest. There are always consequences, and they aren't always proportional to the act that brought them.

See: This girl getting death threats.

But really, I think this girl is just stupid. I don't think she wanted to offend anyone, but she did and the unfortunately reality of things is that, when people get offended they rarely reacted proportionally to the offence.
 

deserteagleeye

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I thought it was funny and you can be a perfectly sane and good person and find this funny as well. Drama queens...
 

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FalloutJack said:
lassiie said:
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/woman-s-boston-marathon-bombing-costume--what-it-says-about-everyone-205502002.html

So, not sure if someone has brought this up, but holy shit. What in God's name is wrong with some people. I can't even fathom how a person could remotely think this is funny
Some asshole shot up a theater on the early release of The Dark Knight Rises in a Joker costume. I have no idea what's wrong with people that they ever think this is a good idea.
If you are talking about the "dark knight shooting" you should educate yourself, he wasn't wearing a "joker costume"
 

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thaluikhain said:
Not seen that one. Saw the Trayvon Martin one, and the plane crash ones, though, which are arguably worse.

But yeah, that is very wrong. And...there will be hordes of people coming to defend it, saying that people speaking ill of her is infringing on her free speech and that there are worse things in the world.
This reminds me of the boards after the RE5 trailer was revealed.

"People are going to say it's racist cus black people"

"Those people are so stupid! They are the real racists!"

You guys are so addicted to argument that you can do it without an opposing view being present yet.
 

Uhura

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Yeah, poor taste. She still doesn't deserve death threats though.

I'm surprised that there are so many people in this thread who thought the costume was funny... It's like hearing someone say that they think Two and a Half Men is a funny show.
 

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Dirty Hipsters said:
I find it weird that Halloween costumes are supposed to be "funny" nowadays.

Whatever happened to Halloween being a holiday that celebrated fear and the things that make us afraid? People dress up like serial killers, murderous psychopaths, and monsters and that's fine, but dressing up as something that's truly scary crosses the line?

Devils and ghosts scare children, why can't adults have more adult costumes about what scares them? Why do people have to dress up as some kind of pretend evil when there's real evil in the world?
If you think the costume is "truly scary" or that the "scariness" is what offended people, you're probably too young to have a valid opinion on the subject.
 

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Uhura said:
Yeah, poor taste. She still doesn't deserve death threats though.

I'm surprised that there are so many people in this thread who thought the costume was funny... It's like hearing someone say that they think Two and a Half Men is a funny show.
A lot of people watch the show and think it's funny.

People with a different opinion, horrible I know.

Nobody "deserves death threats" but lets grow up. I'm willing to bet most of us here, being on the internet, have received death threats. I have gotten plenty of death threats, it's not as "emotionally damaging" as people make it out to be. I think some random idiot online threatening to kill you is a bit less offensive than a person making fun of a senseless tragedy.

Even if somebody followed through on the threats, who cares? At least somebody could make an "edgy" costume next year out of the grisly aftermath.

Want to make fun of death and mutilation, don't cry and play the victim when somebody threatens you with death or mutilation. Just laugh it off because you found it so funny when you did it.


Of course this is all pointless because she's clearly not going to read any of this because she obviously has no idea how the internet works.
 

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<img src=http://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/2011/10/nazi-sexy-costume.jpg>

<img src=http://thejoshfile.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/terrorist-halloween-costume1.jpg>

The point I'm trying to make is that there are far more worse costumes that should offend more people than they do. Why? Fucked if I know, but in any case people's response to that is just god damn stupid.
 

Evonisia

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I don't really see the issue with this. It's a little insensitive, sure, but then again that's her choice of costume.
 

Uhura

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@Carpenter

I know it's a fairly popular show and I don't have any issues with people who enjoy it. Different people enjoy different things. I just don't personally get the humor in it.

I don't even want to comment on the rest of your post.
 

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Evonisia said:
I don't really see the issue with this. It's a little insensitive, sure, but then again that's her choice of costume.
That's true, and just as she has the choice to make fun of victims of a tragedy other people have the choice to be sickened by it and judge her for it.

Freedom of choice and freedom of expression is a two way street. She has the freedom to dress as a bombing victim, her boss has the choice to fire her, other people have the choice to send her death threats. You have a choice to judge every single one of those things.
 

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Uhura said:
@Carpenter

I know it's a fairly popular show and I don't have any issues with people who enjoy it. Different people enjoy different things. I just don't personally get the humor in it.

I don't even want to comment on the rest of your post.
Sorry if the "rest of my comment" made you uncomfortable, next time I'll just state the obvious and jab at something stupid and popular like you did. So creative you are.
 

Nosirrah

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Christ. Worst we have to deal with in the uk is a mask with an accused (but not guilty) pedophile's face and
an asylum patient costume. Complete with machete and mask because all asylum patients have those. yeah, those two spiked controversy. 2nd one was all over the radio for a few days while 1st was front page news. Christ, people are sensitive.
 

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SkullKing84 said:
When I was younger I remember O.J. Simpson masks being sold that Halloween when he was arrested and I remember people dressing up as the Unabomber, Hell I even remember someone Dressed up as Timothy McVeigh.
I think it's just that people find dressing up as victims (the bombing victims/Trayvon Martin) more tasteless than dressing up as mass murderers/terrorists etc.


@Carpenter

I find your attitude very amusing.
 

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2xDouble said:
In dressing like you, she is showing (on some level) that she wants to be as brave and strong as you are
...really?
Reeaaaaaaaaaally?

This wasn't some sort of deep message or a big old "fuck you" to terrorism, this was "lol this'll be funny" and then she did it. It's in bad taste and I'd say she;s a bit of an arse but that's all there is to it.