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In light of the silliness over Megyn Kelly conveniently not knowing that blackface can be insulting. I am wondering if the people here at GaG have an opinion on whether or not dressing up as a Jewish prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp is offensive.

Lately, me and my friends were having plans on dressing up as masked superheroes for a Halloween party this year. I'm gonna be Spider-Man this year and my friends made a double dare on me to talk and get to know any random girl that I like at the upcoming party and then flirt with and ask the girl to lift my mask up (not completely but only enough for my mouth to be exposed) to kiss me if she asks me who I am and to take my own mask off completely.

Would this be a creepy of me to do?

This Halloween my neighbor son is gonna drsss up as a girl for Halloween he wants to go all out and his mom is 100% behind him. So she was telling me that she’s buying him a big gown she said a quinceanera dress getting his ears peirced so he can wear hoop earrings. Getting him a French manicure and pedicure to match the dress a wig and even perfume. I think it’s Halloween one day it’s fine but on the other hand my other neighbor thinks it’s not a good idea what do you guys/girls think..

This question is a bit different than the similar questions I've asked. Earlier I asked if dressing up as another culture (cultural appropriation) is wrong and on why it's more socially accepted that none-whites played white characters than visa versa.

But here I'm not talking about culture or movies. I'm talking about costume parties, Halloween, special occasions etc. Topic: #Race #Racism #BlackFace

The 5yo daughter of liberal parenting blogger, Sachi Feris (author of Raising Race Conscious Children) wanted to dress up as a Disney Princess for Halloween- either Moana or Elsa for Halloween. However, her mum pronounced that she found both costumes problematic, and forbade her from wearing either- in the end, not letting her do anything for Halloween at all- because she found both costumes "problematic". According to Feris, dressing up as the titular character of “Moana” was '#CULTURAL APPROPRIATION', and dressing up as Elsa promoted 'WHITE BEAUTY'.

“I had some reservations regarding both costume choices,” she wrote, “about cultural appropriation and the power/privilege carried by Whiteness, and about Whiteness and standards of beauty.” About the Elsa costume, Feris wrote, “There is one thing I don’t like about the character of Elsa. I feel like because Elsa is a White princess, and we see so many white princesses, her character sends the message that you have to be a certain way to be ‘beautiful’ or to be a ‘princess.'” Both Sachi Feris and her daughter are white. And with regard to the Moana costume, Feris said, “I don’t like the idea of dressing up using the same traditional clothing that someone from Moana’s culture may have worn because that feels like we are laughing at her culture by making it a costume.”

Many people on social media as well as in the comments section of the article supported Feris’s sentiments about “offensive” Halloween costumes, which concluded that “If your Caucasian son or daughter doesn’t get to be exactly what they wanted for Halloween, encourage them to take a step back and realize that they’re awash in privileges that the real Moanas and Tianas of the world will likely never see, because the world is full of racist a–holes.” So then, how do you feel for Sachi Feris' 5yo Caucasian daughter? And how would you rate Sachi Feris as a mother?