Brickbat: Sharp-Dressed Man

Officials at the University of Colorado Boulder have warned students not to wear "offensive" costumes for Halloween. The school says students should not dress as cowboys, Indians, hillbillies or geishas, among others, and they should avoid sombreros and serapes.

Comments

[Rebekah]

In social justice circles, cultural appropriation zealots are running a close third behind the otherkin and thin privilege crowds in terms of mind-numbing idiocy.

[db]

What a load of shit. I have a friend who is Vietnamese and his wife is black. They came to our Halloween party last year dressed as a Viet Cong irregular and herself--"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."

Similarly, my co-worker of Mexican heritage came dressed with his girlfriend last year as "Cowboys and Illegal Aliens."

[sarcasmic]

If a white person did any of those things it would be offensive. That's what tolerance means.

[Pompey]

I am itching for the day that some PC control freak tries to accuse me (I'm in a happy biracial marriage) of being culturally insensitive or racist or some such bullshit. Oh the pain will rain down as my response will neither be quiet nor shy.

[Hillary's Clitdong]

You're just trying to dominate a member of an underprivileged race! RACIST!

[Pompey]

God thing such accusations wouldn' compel me to hesitate in liberally dropping the sexist term cunt . Boy do culture warriors make me rage.

[Tonio]

Suggest you don't give them the satisfaction of being able to claim they were victimized. Idiot, slaver, commie...those all work well.

[SugarFree]

Don't not blaspheme the God-Thing. It will smite thee somehow.

[JasonTromm]

Yeah, I'm waiting for someone to tell me I'm racist. Then I'll have to point out my teenage daughter has been dating a black man for almost 5 years. Would I allow that if I was a racist?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Or else?

[sarcasmic]

It was the Boulder PD who cured me of my naive belief that cops are there to serve and protect. I'm quite positive that that gang of thugs would happily arrest and detain anyone in an offensive costume, and give them a good beating if they showed even the slightest sign of disrespect. Bogus charges of course would be dropped after 48hrs or so.

[Scarecrow Repair]

1960 rural deputies cleared that up for me at age 10 when I stuck my tongue out at two of them and got a 5 minute lecture on how hard and dangerous their job was.

I suppose high schoolers rolling kegs across the football field was scary back in 1960.

[cavalier973]

What about hillbilly geishas? Would that be okay?

[SugarFree]

"Y'alls want sum Sock-a?"

[Rich]

"Me love you til the cows come home!"

[Steve G]

Let's not forget that costumes shouldn't be too scary either. I'm really not sure what's left at this point. Cartoon characters? As long as they aren't Speedy Gonzales, of course.

[gaijin]

True. I'm starting to think there is a war on halloween.

[Tonio]

Presumably princess and ballerina are ok. Maybe firefighter. Ghosts, etc also seem to be "safe."

[mr simple]

Princess and ballerina? Why do you want to force girls into traditional gender roles? Why not just give them a broom and frying pan? Now if a man were to dress as a princess aor ballerina it would be ok, as long as we all understood it was not done to be funny but to celebrate wymyn.

[Bob_R]

You could go as a U. Colorado-Boulder official, but having a stick up your ass all night would be pretty uncomfortable.

[Pompey]

+1

[Bean Counter]

Oh, you're from Colorado, I assume. CU is in a major turf war with UW - Madison to see who can be the most egregiously stupid.

[JasonTromm]

FTW!

[Suthenboy]

What is offensive about cowboys? Raising cattle is immoral?

[cavalier973]

No, because it might remind people of BOOOOOSSHH!!!

And then the shriek will come and annoy you to death.

[Bean Counter]

You don't see anything wrong with imprisoning and then slaughtering our bovine brethren and sisters? There has been a movement to get the cowboy off the Wyoming license plates for over a decade. There is NO LIMIT to PC stupidity.

[croaker]

If God hadn't meant us to eat animals he wouldn't have made them out of tasty meat.

[Bean Counter]

Speciesist!! Sensualist!! If it's fun or if it tastes good, it's bad.

[HazelMeade]

I don't get it either.

Do they think maybe rural rednecks would be offended?

I don't think they are that sensitive.

[Pompey]

The PC thugs at CU can go eat a giant bag of dicks. Hello CU, the 1994 all too real yet fictional administration from the comedy movie PCU wants their staff back!

As an aside, not one but two Asian volunteers at my toddler's children's museum last Saturday chose to wear "Asian lady" getups. RACISTS!

Isn't it funny how functional biracial couples that are comfortable with each other occasionally venture into jocular racist territory with each other, yet these lily white loser culture control freaks get a wild hair across their asses about sombreros and geisha dresses? Oh yeah, it isn't funny. They can go fuck themselves.

[Rich]

Nice costume at the real link.

students at the University of Colorado Boulder were told to consider the impact their costumes could have on others.

That's why they wear them, DUH!

University of Minnesota students have also been warned

The virus is spreading!

[sticks]

The real link. http://www.colorado.edu/node/2984417

[Rich]

Thanks, sticks!

From the horse's mouth:
The goal of CU-Boulder this Halloween and every day is to create a safe and welcoming environment for everyone

, education and humor be damned!

[Doctor Whom]

I'll go as a person of political correctness. I'll dress from head to toe in black and respond to everything with "That is just so offensive."

Seriously, good luck trying not to offend these people. Being offended is their oxygen.

[Pompey]

Gallivanting around in blackbody? RACIST!!!!!

[Smilin' Joe Fission]

head to toe in black? seems a little offensive to me, but i'm just a white male with the privilege and all

[Rich]

How about if a student dressed as a cowboy, Indian, hillbilly or geisha -- with an international "not" symbol on front?

[Tonio]

While I don't support this PC nonsense, I'm glad that they are including "hillbilly" in the list. At least they're being consistent. And acknowledging that maybe, just maybe, poor rural white folk are people.

[Zeb]

I agree with them, but for an entirely different reason. What do any of those costumes have to do with Halloween?

[Rich]

Zeb, Zeb, Zeb -- It goes without saying that all these costumes are *sexy* costumes.

[Tonio]

Of course they are sexy. And I'm surprised that nobody took the opportunity to make the obligatory "assless chaps" (LOL) comment.

[AlmightyJB]

Maybe the girls can dress like prostitutes and the guys like douchbags. Oh wait...

[JasonTromm]

Isn't that discrimination to tell people not to wear certain costumes? It discriminates against gays who might want to dress up as the Village People.

[HazelMeade]

I want to dress as a progressive.

Any ideas? Maybe an Obama Hope T-shirt, some white-person-dreads, a backpack full of my camping gear for the next Occupy protest?

[croaker]

I was planning to dress up as an Obamacare supporter, but I couldn't get my head that far up my ass.

[Dr No]

No sombreros. Mexicans are offensive.

[Tonio]

I'm guessing that.