Halloween costumes.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....lloween-costumes.html

Seems like the days of 'Vicar & Tarts' parties are now over then?

What other costumes should be banned?

[Meg888]

I think this is a bit OTT on the students part. I mean what is the harm in dressing up as a red indian or mexican or something or the other??? People have been doing this for years so why take offence? It's just another PC attempt of the LACK of common sense brigade.

[Ankou]

wow this is a really tiny group (10 members) in a small uni and they are being heard on the global stage.

well done them.

[tinkerbell23]

Pc gone mad- im catholic and dnt mind people dressing as nuns popes priests etc x

[ummmm]

Isn't it more about stereotyping?

Nothing to do with banning it...but don't think that all Mexicans go round saying arriba arriba....like speedy Gonzales.

[Ankou]

tinkerbell, would you be offended if someone was dressed as the pope and had a half naked choir boy on a lead ?

[pa___ul3]

http://www.acegadgets...gets/images/96777.jpg

This is not who I am! (mainly because I'm from The Wirral! but you get the drift!)

Some of them maybe doing more harm than good.. I mean how many Muslims would actually want to be linked to a terrorist?
The Geisha and the Indians are historical figures in the way, maybe, dressing up as Shakespeare would represent and Englishman perhaps.
The girl blacked up being a gangsta is pushing it a bit far though I'd have thought!

[ummmm]

Lol Ankou...I don't know what to say to that...but it made me giggle.

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// Isn't it more about stereotyping? ///

Yes of course, all 'Vicars' do wear dog collars and all 'Tarts' do wear.........or perhaps they don't.

[rowanwitch]

oh you were at that party too...

I am uncomfortable with costumes that sexualise things that shouldn't be...e.g naughty schoolgirl etc but a lot of street fund raising is done by brave students in fancy dress...while some of it is a bit tacky the intent justifies the effect

[Gromit]

It is in America.

Why report this in a British newspaper and website (and AnswerBank)?

Why should we be bothered what a handful of students 4,000 miles are upset about?

[ummmm]

That's their point...perhaps they don't :-)

[anotheoldgit]

pa___ul3

What about going dressed as a 'Golly' or perhaps as 'Gandhi' perhaps?

Again a little too far or what?

/// The girl blacked up being a gangsta is pushing it a bit far though I'd have thought! ///

What about someone dressed up as being a white gangster, would that be acceptable?

[tinkerbell23]

Anokou- no! Ive seen much worse than that but no it really dosent offend me! I remember when i was little we used to go out as japanese girls as my mate & i had japanese pyjammas and stuck chopsticks in our hair! Not PC now adays!!

Ive been out as a leprechaun before its not meant as a dig at irish folk or something i just think PC has gone mad x

[pa___ul3]

she's not black though, she's white and is making herself black to portray a stereotypical gangster rapper, it's not so much the costume it's the 'blacking up' (not a nice term but can't think what else to call it) that could very easily be perceived as racist.
You could answer that yourself AOG, if a black person 'whited up' (!?) in order to mockingly portray, say, a football hooligan, would you find that offensive? Or would you find it understandable if a white person were to find that offensive?

[Ankou]

"Anokou- no! Ive seen much worse than that but no it really dosent offend me!"

no, and i bet there are many black people, arabs and japanese not offended by the costumes in the link. but somewhere someone will be, probably a snivelling vicar with a penchant for youngs boys. so its hardly pc gone mad.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// Why should we be bothered what a handful of students 4,000 miles are upset about? ///

Equally, why should we be bothered about what an unruly mob 1,448 miles away in Libya have been upset about?

/// Why report this in a British newspaper and website (and AnswerBank)? ///

Are you saying that British newspapers should only report on British issues?

[tinkerbell23]

Even changing skin colour i dont find offensive your dressing up For Funks Sake! What if i wanted to go as whoopie goldberg in sister act? Or can you not do that these days!? I just mean in general pc has gone wild. Cant please everyone! I would not be offended if someone who was black changed their skin colour to be white! Im not offended if someone goes as fat b@statrd frol
Austin powers a big fat scottish guy- infact id laugh. But thyre not sayn all scots are like that! Its a joke!

[Ankou]

"Are you saying that British newspapers should only report on British issues?"

have the costumes been banned here ?

[pa___ul3]

but tinks, dressing as Whoopie Goldberg is as a specific character, that's why I said it was pushing it, a gangsta rapper might be considered a negative character, and so changing your skin colour to portray the negative character is essentially saying you have to do that to portray said negative character. As AOG said, you go get white / Asian / Latino gangstas so why black up. I think that's where it could be crossing the line. I'm not saying it definitely is, but at that point I'd understand people being offended.
Like I said, if we switch it round, it could be considered racist towards whites. I think that AOG saw my point there and that's why he's swerved answering.