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Are you ready for Halloween? You aren’t if you haven’t read the rules — according to social justice warriors.
Bill Maher has thoughts on that, and he crystallized them during Friday night’s installment of Real Time:
“Every year, we go through this [baloney] — lists of costumes you’d better not wear… Here’s an idea, clickbait websites: I won’t tell you how to harvest and sell my personal data, and you don’t tell me what I can wear on Halloween.”
The host went on to bomb Buzzfeed — or, in his words, “Buzz Kill” — which recently published the passionate imploration “Please, I Am Literally on My Knees Begging You — Do Not Wear Any of These Halloween Costumes This Year.”
He also simmered Simone Biles for a tweet laying down her law:
im just gon go head and say it, put the jeffrey dahmer costumes back in the closet. we ain’t having it!!!!!!
— Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) October 19, 2022
Bill’s analysis:
“Who’s ‘we’? What’s with the ‘we’? Who died and made you The Great Pumpkin? I’m so tired of a handful of emotional hemophiliacs on social media telling us what we can’t do on Halloween.”
The comedian curated “verboten costumes on stupid lists this year”:
- Queen Elizabeth — “Too soon?”
- Characters outside of your race
- Genies — “Because genies were slaves.”
- Sexy schoolgirls
- Playboy bunnies
- Celebrities accused of pedophilia
- Elvis
- Zombie versions of deceased celebrities
- Any unhoused person — “What we used to call a hobo, the default costume of every kid in history.”
- Anyone with an eating disorder — “So goodbye, skeletons.”
- “Transphobic” costumes — “‘Cause if kids want to see drag queens, they can go to Story Hour.”
- Putin
- Trump
- Anything related to the Oscars slap
- Johnny Depp
- Amber Heard
- Anything related to vaccines, COVID, or monkeypox
“So have fun, kids — and let your imaginations soar,” he added sarcastically. Then, “These are all great costumes. … You should wear all of them.”
He even recommended mixing it up:
[WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE]“[C]ombine them if you want — have the queen [defecate] in Johnny’s bed.”
Until recently, of course, Halloween-observant Americans donned whatever they wished. Society wasn’t filled with people telling others what was offensive or what should offend them. Still, prohibited costume lists aren’t new for 2022:
The Woke Set Sail for Inclusive Island: Halloween Costumes Are Already Being Banned at Schools and Universities
University Likened Unwoke Halloween Costumes to Rape and Murder
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Bill made an interesting point — these days, the young are the old fogeys:
“[T]hat is the craziest part of all this — being irreverent, unclenched, and playful should be the province of the young, but it’s not. … [W]hen someone in a problematic costume shows up at your door, it’s literally Gen Z telling them to ‘Get off my lawn’ — except it’s not your lawn, because you live at your parents’ house.”
He also itemized his own Halloween costume — that of an “uber-woke, overly anxious, perpetually offended twentysomething’:
- “[Forget] the Patriarchy” T-shirt
- A check from the patriarchy to pay for car insurance
- Cloth surgical mask
- Surgical mask
- N-95 mask
- Face shield
- Klonopin to take the edge off
- Adderall to put it back on
- Participation trophy
- Nose ring
- Vape pen
- Cat-ears headphones to listen to sad music
- Support animal leash
- “Stick that goes up my [butt]”
Finally, he offered a suggestion to the delicate among us:
“If Halloween is too much for your fragile sensibilities and you’re worried about seeing someone wearing something that’s on the forbidden costume list, just stay the [heck] home.”
Still, he’s sympathetic:
“It’s not your fault, kids — your parents ruined you by overprotecting you. And now you’re these a**holes.”
Well, kind of sympathetic.
-ALEX
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