[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.

[a fool in paradise]

>> or if a black kid dressed up as Frank Zappa and was in white face, would people be angry nowadays?

[Sans-Culotte]

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.

On a similar note, someone on another thread mentioned seeing a guy dressed as a Buddhist monk carrying a can (empty) of gasoline as a prop. Offensive to some no doubt, but funny.