9/11 - Time To Make Light Of It?

[sp1814]

Thoughts please...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/06/students-twin-towers-fancy-dress-party-_n_4223440.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

[sp1814]

I should lay my cards on the line...I think 'No', it's way, WAY too soon, and in thunderingly bad taste.

But then again - didn't we read about the lads who dressed up dead airline pilots for a laugh at Halloween:

http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/sum-ting-wong-with-these-halloween-costumes/

At what point does it become funny?

[IhateWillsnKate]

yes.

we should be able to mock whatever we want.

[rockyracoon]

I'm usually a bit liberal with these kind of things but I think those costumes are a bit insensitive, they made me cringe to be honest.

I'm sure it would be shocking for anyone who lost somebody on 9/11.

[jno]

I think being able to laugh about it is a useful step in recovering from trauma. Clearly, most Americans haven't got there yet (the outrage that they won shopping vouchers, too...) but someone has to be first.

I'm not saying it will ever be a subject for mainstream humour, any more than Pearl Harbor is. But those not directly affected, or those too young at the time, are entitled to take a more detached view of it.

[Sqad]

Stupid, insensitive, inappropriate, but i am not at all surprised that the two girls lacked insight.

[Mamyalynne]

Whatever thought processes went through their heads, they were poor ones and hopefully one day they may grow up and do something useful.

[FredPuli43]

There's a time and a place to depict "a serious modern day horror", as these girls described it. This was not it.

[237SJ]

I don`t think it`s a case of being way to soon. There will never be a time to make light of it - that would be like joking about the holocaust. Silly girls.

[Gromit]

People fancy dress as Nazis and no one bothers unless they are Royal Princes. Others dress as victims with knives or cleavers in their heads. If the intention is to portray horror, then dressing as the twin towers is quite clever. But it depends how it is done. If it is for laughs then that is clearly bad taste. If it is to remind people of modern day horrors then I think it is OK.

[sp1814]

Thing is - it must've taken ages to put those costumes together, and at no point did either girl think...'hang on'...

[pixie373]

I don't think it will ever be appropriate to make fun of a tragedy where so many people died. There's a difference between coming to terms with something and finding it funny. These girls are probably too young to really relate to it, so i think they were just insensitive, more than anything.

[Sqad]

Gromit

\\\\If it is for laughs then that is clearly bad taste. If it is to remind people of modern day horrors then I think it is OK.\\\

Guess....just a guess.....for which reason do YOU think that they did it?

C'mon.

[FredPuli43]

You can make jokes with reference to the holocaust; I once heard a Jewish friend, with reference to someone who'd upset his group, say "What do you want us to do? Offer her a shower?" That is about as close to joking about it as it is possible to get, without being grossly insensitive. And it is Jewish humour ,too; the hallmark is humour about adversity; but I could never get away with it, nor even try.

[redman41]

In bad taste ! Salad Chefs

[sp1814]

Actually, I've heard jokes based around 9/11 - but they came from Joan Rivers, which was almost expected...

[Gromit]

Sqad

One of the girls' father was flying planes in the US at the time of 9/11. She has said

// The friends said: "We never meant to be offensive, but we apologise if any offence was caused.
"The idea was to depict a modern-day horror that happened in our lifetime and was not intended as a joke." //

[jno]

like joking about the holocaust

Like The Producers perhaps?

Funnily enough, back in the 70s, treating the Nazis with humour wasn't a big problem. Since then, however, people have become more easily outraged.

[237SJ]

I remember going to a fancy dress party and two of the RAF guys turned up in silver foil with seaweed and the occasional starfish attached - they were the remains of the space shuttle crew. We all thought it was funny. Likewise the plane crash jokes that go around at work - they are a coping mechanism when it could be you. 9/11 was on another scale though and just too horrific IMO

[davetuc]

Thick, insensitive, brain-deads if you ask me. Having been to New York this year and visited the 9/11 memorial, you get a real sense of the horror of it all. I can honestly say it is something that should never be mocked.

[chrissa1]

I am appalled.