Halloween sensitivity help?
As a straight, plus size, single lady who has decided at almost the last minute to go out for Halloween, I’m realizing my options are limited.
I would like to dress as a drag queen with huge hair, fantastic make up, bustier, fancy skirt, killer heels.
But is this offensive?
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Nope. Do it.
It’s Halloween. You can do what you want.
I hope not, I like the idea. But I am a straight woman so I am not sure either.
I’m a lesbian and don’t find it offensive, actually I think it’s a great idea and pretty funny. But that’s just me. ;)
That’s actually kind of funny and subversive. I like it!
Offensive? To whom and for what reason? It sounds like a great idea. Go have fun, and as Jesus said, fuck ‘em if they can’t take a joke.
Sounds okay to me, but then I am a plus-sized married lady who usually dresses as a witch or an alien. I have friends who are drag queens, though. Some of them dress as drag queens for Halloween, too, although I should think it would be like wearing your office clothes.
I bet you’ll have to explain. (You may be taken for, say, a madam, since you are a woman.) So just be sure you’ll feel comfortable stating it.
I think that it’s fabulous, and that you should go for it!
I think it’s awesome…. I’m costumeless and might even steal the idea…
@cyndihugs How ridiculous that picture of Amy looking healthy is labeled fat…and I kinda don’t think she looks at all like a drag queen.
You mean because it might offend “real” drag queens?
I am dressing as a vampire (because that is the theme and I have no choice – I am selling cupcakes at a kid’s community party).
Do you think I will be offending any vampires by so doing???
This offending business is really getting a bit over the top!!!
I would have to think that on the scale of offenses or insults the average drag queen has likely had to endure in his life, encountering a real woman dressed up as a faux woman for Halloween wouldn’t even be able to move the needle on the Offend-O-Meter… ;-)
@rooeytoo: See, here’s the thing… Vampires aren’t real people with feelings.
@SarasWhimsy: I think @derekfnord‘s got it right. And all the drag kings and queens I know have wonderful senses of humor and would think your costume idea is faaaaabuluous. (I just asked two of them, to make sure. :D)
Well’s here’s my thing, I am a short, white, graying, old female.
Now, don’t anybody dare dress up like one because it will undoubtedly offend me.
I have endured short jokes all my life, been discriminated against by stores who put the small sizes on the highest rack, build shelves in grocery stores that I can’t reach, have to literally crawl into freezers to get what I want in said grocery stores.
It isn’t funny people, it is discrimination and I am tired of it!!!
I can’t dress up like you. I’m too tall.
My grandmother, who was just barely 5 feet tall, always said that short people live longer because they get more exercise. She made it to 89 so she may have been right.
@rooeytoo maybe I should’ve mentioned that I’m short too – and I go to the broom/cleaning section of the store and get a wand like item, and i use it to knock stuff off the top of shelves with! My grocery store hates me.
Of course its not offensive! You could be a drag queen if you were a 70 pound man if you wanted to <3
@SarasWhimsy – hehehe, I have used that method as well but you have to be careful, a direct hit on the top of the head with a large jar of pickles can be a painful and messy experience!
As another lesbian, I think the idea is divine! I went in drag as a guy dressed as a girl once too (and won an award because everyone was so shocked). Audacity of Hope gets bantered about a lot these days—I just hope for audacity and girl, you got it!
@Darwin – If the whole world was short we could conserve tons of energy and resources. Ceilings in houses would not have to be 8’ standard, the list is endless.
I hadn’t thought of the living longer part, I hope that is true, hehehehe!
I once went to a Halloween party dressed as Teddy Roosevelt.
Not offensive at all.
As long as you don’t dress up like a black drag queen. apparently
Do it!! And have fun!! Sounds like an awesome Halloween costume!
Well as a woman the idea of cross dressing is not cross dressing if your dressed as a woman so where’s the costume?
Go as George Michael or something if you want to cross dress.
Like @SeventhSense said- a woman dressing like a man who dresses like a woman-too convoluted to figure where the offense even begins. Last weekend the SF Opera had a costume clearance at their warehouse. Lots of stuff for the zaftig and regular sizes. And there is always the toga and olive wreath.
Speaking of opera—one of the delightful characters of opera is Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart. The character is a page, a young manservant. His voice is high because of his youth, and so the role is normally played by a woman, a mezzo-soprano, in what they call a “trousers” role. An element of the plot involves dressing Cherubino up as a girl so the master won’t get mad when he is found in the mistress’s bedchamber. So you have a woman playing the part of a man who is dressed as a woman. This is usually good for some sight gags. The audience loves it.
@rooeytoo of course short people live longer. Being tall has its disadvantages. I have dents in my forehead from smacking into low doorways. That will catch up to me one of these days.
ironic question, this. as a straight woman, don’t you have as much right to find drag queens offensive?
political correctness has stepped in as the heir apparent of puritanism (even though puritanism itself has gone away). do what you like!
@Ria777, interesting connection you made there between puritanism and PC. Care to elaborate? And why do you think that puritanism has gone away?
misprint: “I meant that puritanism hasn’t gone away.”
I don’t feel moved to elaborate on the connection between PCness and puritanism. just think about it and the parallels will come to you.
@galileogirl seeing as how I live in the northeast I’m neither near the SF opera and therefore knew nothing about the sale nor does a sheet appeal to me in 30 degree weather.
@SarasWhimsy My bad. I assumed you would be going to a party indoors, not trick or treating.<’ P
@SarasWhimsy I find a toilet bush works best for knocking stuff off. Bristles, the curve… It just works out well!
The thing is, “Drag Queen” doesn’t mean man in a dress… Big, loud, flamboyant…. Ethel Merman was my favorite drag queen.
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