Halloween: The most sexist children’s holiday?

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Anyone who takes Halloween costumes this seriously is either intellectually lazy or just stupid. Even if there was actually something wrong with ridiculous or offensive Halloween costumes, they would not be the problem in and of themselves. Pointing to offensive costumes needing to be banned or discouraged or whatever is just a convenient way for someone to say, "look at me, I care about this issue...can't you see how much I'm changing the world?" Putting on airs pretending not to be sexist or racist doesn't mean you aren't, it just means you're aware of the fact that you're doing something wrong. Our society has huge gender and race problems and pretending we don't by targeting costumes is just ridiculous. Let's look a little deeper and try to solve the actual problem with actual solutions aimed at changing the way our society functions. This whole thing is akin to extinguishing a fire by aiming the extinguisher at the tips of the flames.

This hilarity is the reason I included race.

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This hilarity is the reason I included race.

CNN needs to quit trying to be the "equality" channel. I find all of those costumes funny, so long as the person dressed up in them does not actually go around starting stuff. Its one thing to dress as a suicide bomber; its another to visit a mosque and harass people..

Some were funny, some were offensive. But that's not the point. What's funny is the fact that they're pointing to something so absurd and so not an actual problem that they're making the joke about themselves. Their somber faces in relation to something so stupid is embarrassing. It's a waste of time that only makes their cause as serious as Halloween costumes.