[Sans-Culotte]

The museum’s administration sent out an email within a few hours to apologize for the word “spooks” by ghosting the word. The museum, the email said, is committed to diversity and inclusion, and regrets the use of a word “with an offensive connotation.”

The word "fairies" probably should go too.

[albie]

Can’t be Hillary, Obama, Waters or any other dem. No black face, no Indian or minority make up of any kind. Can’t be a cross dresser or any gay character. Only color M & M you can be is blue or purple and even those colors can spell trouble.

Guess I’ll just go with my 80’s costume. Put a chair on my head and be a piece of gum. But not “Fruit Stripe” as that can be considered gay. Boy! Lots of rules!

[cuban leaf]

In my small town I just learned that there was some notification that trick or treating is tonight, rather than tomorrow night.

I’m not sure exactly who has the power to make such a declaration, but if I was a reasonably intelligent 12 year old, I’d go out both nights.

Who the hell do these people think they are?

[DoodleBob]

As I wrote elsewhere, some people are always offended (snowflakes) and some people are rarely offended (Howard Stern). The line of rationality and good taste that separates these two groups and where things like blackface rests on that continuum is the crux of this debate.

I find people dressed up as pregnant nuns to be offensive...yea yea, I get it, nuns are supposed to be celibate but this one did the deed it's funny ha ha ha. I suspect other costumes in a similar manner are also offensive, i.e. a rabbi eating bacon. Now, I don't run up to such people and lecture them, but I sure won't invite them to my barbecue and I probably would give them a rock instead of candy.

At the same time, this list of "offensive" costumes was clearly compiled by someone who doesn't get out much. Further, if a white kid dressed up as Hendrix and was in black face or if a black kid dressed up as Frank Zappa and was in white face, would people be angry nowadays? I hope not.

The debate will rage on...hopefully no laws are passed because while I think people masquerading as a pregnant nun are loathsome, as soon as the state is empowered to ban them then its only a matter of time before Normal Costumes are banned. Besides, I always can hand out rocks.

[heterosupremacist]

I needed money to get a Halloween costume. I said, “ hey pops, can you give me money to buy a costume?”

He looked at me and said, “You don’t need money, just put some jockey shorts on your head, and you can be an ass!”

Rodney Dangerfield

[fruser1]

Don a ghili suit with a lit candle on top.

“I’m a faggot!”

[jmcenanly]

At the rate the P.C. Police want to succeed, this is the only allowable Halloween costume for this year.

Next year it will be the required everyday wear.

[hanamizu]

At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon, Halloween is ruined these days. First of all, parents weren’t required or desired to accompany us around our neighborhood. I am talking of 1950s Long Beach, Cal. The unwritten rule in our neighborhood was, if the porch light was on, it meant there should be treats. If it was off, it meant “leave us alone”. Besides candy, treats might include homemade cookies, fudge, and un X-rayed apples. It was safe.

Also, Halloween was strictly a kids’ holiday. I have no memory of my mom or dad or any adults dressing up and having parties. Not saying they didn’t happen, but it was not the norm.

For many many things, today is better than the past—but Halloween isn’t.