When bad judgement meets Halloween costumes

[jhitchin]

I, like a lot of my friends and family, are sick of the "sexy" Halloween costumes trotted out every year for women. Someone must be buying them if they're still for sale. Still, on the bad judgement scale, it's only hovering somewhere in the middle

Comments

[mrdreamjeans]

Who can explain anyone's sense of humor. I have a sister who was a victim of physical abuse. It's about the most unfunny subject to me and I do have a warped sense of humor. The funniest costume I've ever seen was a guy covered in bandages with an airline seat strapped to him. He went as Patsy Cline in an airline crash! I couldn't help laughing though I questioned the taste level.

[hvideo]

Keith Olberman, who has a half-hour show on ESPN, led off his broadcast on (either Monday or Tuesday) on this very topic - savagely ripping a new one for any and all people who are doing this.

Unfortunately, he also showed some pictures (a half-dozen or so).

Since one of the points he emphasized was "Just imagine how seeing these things makes the victim feel, both having to re-live it over and over again as well as seeing all these people who think it's funny", it seems to me that he became a part of the problem by giving these people national exposure on TV. Sure, it may make a more compelling case that "These idiots really do exist" but it also ran the victim through the ringer yet again in a very public way.

And frankly, it may get more people TO try it than it convinces people NOT to try it.

[johnpalmer]

I think it's supposed to be "edgy", like jokes made after a disaster. But the jokes made after a disaster usually have to be funny. I don't see the humor value here.