Halloween is a day where we all like to have fun, get a little crazy and show off the wacky and quirky sides to our personality. But every year there are some costumes that totally cross the line from
cool to
totally uncool.
Here's a list of popular costume ideas we don't think anyone should be. EVER. (BTW it's completely epic.)
1. A Deceased Family Member
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| Family members take death very seriously and it is not fun to make light of it. |
Halloween is a day to honor the dead and NOT make fun of them. Especially if that dead person happens to be YOUR OWN GREAT UNCLE.
2. Cigar Store Indian
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| THIS GUY dressed as a Cigar Store Indian looks like a complete moron. |
Sure, they might look stiff and inhuman, but the truth is Cigar Store Indians are a mockery of many different vast, ancient and present cultures.
3. Blackface
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| Spike Lees demonstrates that Blackface is really weird. |
Do we really need to say this, people?
4. Suicidal Version of Yourself
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| Will not go over well at parties. |
Halloween is a day to honor the dead, not to fantasize about your own passing. If this costume idea is all consuming, please seek help.
5. Pedophile
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| Chicks don't dig Jerry Sandusky. |
Dressing up as someone who sexually abuses children is not appropriate on a holiday already known for luring minors into your house with the promise of candy.
6. Aborted Fetus
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| Show some damn respect you ableist jerk. |
Just because you weren't aborted doesn't mean you have the right to mock people who were. It's 2014, people. Let's try and be a little bit more sensitive.
7. Person With Ebola
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| It's not like it's even real anyway. |
Although Ebola is completely fictitious and was invented by the Obama Administration to depopulate Africa through the use of lies, thousands of people have still died from this hoax and it's time we stop mocking impoverished people dying slow, horribly painful deaths.
8. Used Tampon From Before Tampons Were Mass-Produced
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| This is actually really disrespectful. |
First of all: eww, gross! Secondly, treat women's bodies with a little respect, guys. If you don't want to see it, don't go shoving it in everyone else's face.
9. Men Covered In Their Own Feces
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| Groups of men covered in feces are a very popular Halloween costume, despite being inappropriate. |
Chances are people won't get this reference; they'll just be disturbed. Especially if you use real human feces. Is this even a pop culture reference? Bottom line: most people don't want to bob for apples with a bunch of half-naked guys covered in waste.
10. An Actual Dead Body
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| This was a real man, not a statistic and it is absolutely wrong to wear his corpse as a decoration. |
We shouldn't even have to say this, but taking a body much larger than yourself from a morgue, cutting it open, removing most of the internal organs and wearing it as a Halloween costume is completely inappropriate and could even result in a hefty fine or jail time. If you still wish to adorn this controversial costume, DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK!
11. Big-Nosed Jew-Guy
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| This particular costume has been popular for hundreds of years. It's time we tell people who come dressed as The Big-Nosed Jew-Guy to get the heck out of our Halloween party. |
Let's be honest: this costume is old, boring, and particularly offensive to Jewish people. Get with the times, asshole!
12. Patriarchy
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| I want to kick this man in the neck. |
NO. JUST NO. No way you can come to our Halloween party dressed as PATRIARCHY.
13. Counterfeit Infant Formula
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| Don't emulate something that's fake. Always be yourself. |
Though statistics can be hard to gather, infants dying of malnutrition despite being fed name-brand formula is a real thing. The sad truth is, it may be harder to find a Counterfeit Infant Formula Costume than to find actual counterfeit infant formula.
14. Counterfeit Insulin
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| Bottom line is that it sucks! Not allowed in my house. |
Diabetes is a worldwide health problem. In many areas where money is in short supply, local pharmacists look for cheap providers of pharmaceuticals. But when these drugs aren't real drugs, they are completely ineffective and can have deadly results. Which is why it's totally not okay to make fun of that kind of thing.
15. Counterfeit Egg
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| Be loud and clear and let people know if you've been caged, free range, grain fed- EVERYTHING. |
We saw in a documentary that in China it's cheaper to make fake eggs than to produce real ones. So if you are going to be an egg for Halloween, please let your friends, family and coworkers know your costume, despite it not being a real chicken's egg, represents a conceivably edible chicken's egg and not a criminally made artificial egg.
EVEN MISREPRESENTING AN EGG AS FREE RANGE WHEN IT IS FROM A CAGED BIRD IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE AND OFFENDERS WILL BE PROSECUTED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW.
16. Counterfeit Canada Goose Jackets
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| Keep it real with a real Canada Goose. |
They might look like the real deal and be much, much less expensive, but the stitching and shit isn't always that good and they probably don't want to keep you as warm as the real ones. But I don't know, I just think it's kind of stupid to wear a jacket like that if you aren't being real, you know?
