Anonymous #5 5w

YES THANK YOU

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Anonymous #4 5w

yes exactly the reason why i mentioned nun specially is because i see it most often in stores so it was the first thing that came to mind but yes we should not be appropriating or sexualizing any religions or cultures or anything associated with children

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Anonymous #5 4w

I was just about to say this!!!! It’s fucking disgusting it gives Lolita vibes

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Anonymous #28 4w

Literally wtf I’m not giving a shit about anybody else

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Anonymous #25 4w

A god that’s not even real

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Anonymous #25 4w

That part !

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Anonymous #29 4w

Mmk soo theres a difference between disrespecting a religion and displaying a juxtaposition between good and evil based on fake stories.... horror movies aren't real!! Having so little clothing on while referencing religions is real. Ofc not everyone will follow what we tell them to be mindful of..... which is why OP is bringing up the issue on this platform.... so that a few people might be able to see and realize that they shouldn't be doing allat

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Anonymous #32 4w

It’s not that deep

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Anonymous #32 4w

ITS NOT THAT BIG A DEAL! You really think someone is gonna read that nd be like damn maybe I shouldn’t wear that ? No they won’t no one cares mind ur business if they’re comfortable in it then it’s fine

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Anonymous #34 4w

Bc that’s cultural appropriation.. huge difference

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Anonymous #35 4w

historical oppression is very real but those women are dead and dressing slutty isn’t going to bring them back or bring them justice for their oppression?? insane take

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Anonymous #25 4w

I’m not religious and never have been but even I can understand the disrespect sexy nun costumes are. They are devoted to removing themself of worldly belongings and it is extremely insulting

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Anonymous #25 4w

respect of religion supersedes that of profession, religion is what you devote your life to, and as a nun it’s in every aspect of your life. it’s fucked to dress as any other religion’s most devout figures and everyone seems to understand that, so it’s weird that people decide nuns are different. a job on the other hand isn’t necessarily a way of life - it’s something you can clock out of at the end of the day for most people, unlike being a nun when serving the Lord is your life’s purpose

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Anonymous #29 4w

One is mocking a religion and offensive and the other is literally just a horror movie depiction of religion🙄 yall make up any excuse in the book to be a SEXY NUN??? THERES A MILLION OTHER SEXY THINGS

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Anonymous #37 4w

Halloween isn’t supposed to be sexy anything so no I’m not making an excuse abt it nd if it makes u that mad go pray abt it

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Anonymous #34 4w

they’re both wrong

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Anonymous #25 4w

it’s gross to sexualize any group of women that have made significant moves to de-sexualize and objectify themselves as a main part of their life. nobody should be sexualized against their will, but for nuns it’s CLEAR and OPEN that they do NOT want to be sexualized, whereas some other women do, and that’s also okay

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Anonymous OP 4w

My point exactly, this response was more for the people who were saying it’s okay because it’s religion and also people who are saying do whatever you want. Halloween costumes aren’t worth hurting people’s feelings.

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Anonymous #26 4w

ong she is

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Anonymous #36 4w

exactly- how is that reclaiming anything when the women who went through it (who ur 99% not even a descendant of 💀 …if she was a nun) would be repulsed by 😭😭 there’s no excuse really

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Anonymous #29 4w

Why tf do you think Halloween isn’t supposed to be sexy lmao it’s just the Christian bastardization of Samhain. Samhain wasn’t a celebration of fertility or anything but Celtic and pagans culture are both known for progressive sexuality and freedom.

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Anonymous #37 4w

Well I am religious. Baptist all 20 years of my life and all family members are as well. But I never thought of myself more important than others because I am.

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Anonymous #36 4w

Respect of religion doesn’t supersedes respect of any kind. All of those professions make vows just like nuns do. And you forget that people devote themselves to both. My mother is a devout Christian, but she’s also a doctor. She turns to God for both. Being a doctor is not just a job to people. It’s a calling for some just like my mother. And you can also back out of being nun just like any other profession.

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Anonymous #34 4w

Native Americans are constantly belittle and disrespected especially in America where Halloween is celebrated. Religion (Christianity, Baptism, and Pentecostal) are seen as MOST normal in America. One went through horrible oppression and violence just for being here. I agree that it isn’t okay but you comparing oranges to apples.

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Anonymous #41 4w

Uhh bc it’s not.. Halloween is meant to be scary and fun not sexy and maybe if you had a bit common sense you’d understand that. Halloween has never and will never be meant to dress up and go around half naked.

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Anonymous #35 4w

That’s a problem of those individuals who didn’t want to live the life of a nun but were forced to. That isn’t remotely a problem with the lifestyle itself. This is desecrating a group of individuals because of the mistakes of a select few of their members, literally the exact things that kills queer people every single day. This is not an excuse for sexualizing an innocent culture.

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Anonymous #29 4w

What the fuck 💀 You think religious groups can’t have culture like any other as if it’s DNA coded into your ethnicity or something 😭

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Anonymous #37 4w

keep saying it bc they need to hear it

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Anonymous #4 4w

or kids, oh and cops/prisoners!!

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Anonymous #45 4w

lmaooo not my absolutely valid comment getting removed from under this post 🤣

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Anonymous #45 4w

Definitely no sexualizing kids, but I feel like the cops prisoners is fine. It’s more of a kinky thing of handcuffs and dominance rather than a “oh it’s actually morally okay for law enforcement to be coercing or abusing prisoners”

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Anonymous mother_russia 4w

there’s just so much wrong with the prison system that’s why i don’t think it’s ok to sexualize it

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Anonymous #45 4w

That’s fair, the us prison system sucks, I don’t feel like costumes would be glorifying or endorsing it but I get where you’re coming from

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Anonymous mother_russia 4w

Cops? That’s the same as sexualizing doctors, it’s just weird. Especially when in those fields where women are already sexualized or not taken seriously. Here we go round the prickly pear

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Anonymous #44 4w

I feel like it’s not a sexualization of women and a sexism thing, I see sexy costumes of men and women as doctors cops etc. it’s weird in the sense of adding sex to anything makes it weird to some extent, but not in a hypersexualization of women kind of way imo.

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Anonymous #44 4w

Also I’ve never heard the phrase “here we go around the prickly pear” but I love it

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Anonymous mother_russia 4w

It’s probably not meant to then again, we do typically see more of women in professional positions being turned into sexy costumes more than we see men. Even if the intent isnt there, it’s still being done. Being in college I see it all the time. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be sexy of course but when I see women dressed up sexy doctors or cops, it weirds me out. Even sex military costumes. That’s just my opinion though.

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Anonymous #44 4w

That’s totally fair, and the sexy military one is much worse seeing as the military has an extremely bad problem of sexual assaults against the women enlisted

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Anonymous #36 4w

true but women still experience versions of that oppression every day in all the ways society tries to police female sexuality. it’s not really that insane of a take there’s all sorts of scholarly debate about this sort of thing.

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Anonymous #25 4w

That’s not the remotely the same thing. We are talking about how it’s explicitly in the vows of being a nun to abstain from sex, marriage, dating, etc. and to escape from sexuality as a form of worship, so to sexualize it is disrespectful to the core of what it is and going against the wishes of every woman in it. It’s dressing up about the abuse of women and the way men would sexualize women who didn’t want sex explicitly because they KNEW they didn’t want sex and that made it hotter.

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Anonymous #25 4w

Being a doctor doesn’t mean you can’t get married, can’t have sex, or are even a woman. The sexuality of a pretend doctor costume isn’t playing on the abuse of one group or the desire of physically taking something from someone else.

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Anonymous #39 4w

im not a descendant of them but im pretty involved in the Catholic Church. they also may not have been repulsed by it, considering that they may not have actually made the choice to devote themselves to the church. the nature of the costume is commenting on how women are sexualized no matter what we do - even modesty itself is sexualized - so we should wear and do what we want without worrying about being sexualized because it will happen anyway.

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Anonymous #43 4w

first of all, it wasn’t a few individuals, this used to be fairly common. I agree that there’s nothing wrong with the lifestyle itself - most women in the order nowadays chose a life of devotion and that’s very respectable. i’m just saying that there is more to the slutty nun costume than just wanting to sexualize or make fun of a religious position.

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Anonymous #35 4w

just to clarify I’m not saying people should dress up as slutty nuns because clearly people don’t get it, and without understanding the meaning, it’s definitely harmful to this group. I’m just saying that it’s not “full stop” - the idea is commenting on the irony of controlling women’s sexuality by policing their appearances and behavior. it’s a much deeper debate and there’s a lot of art and scholarly discourse on it if you choose to get into it.

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Anonymous #50 4w

Literally anything else. Someone’s religion or culture shouldn’t be a costume. It’s not like costumes are limited to just that. Do you lack creative thinking or…?

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Anonymous #44 4w

Yall are naming things like doctors and cops too. That’s not a culture or religion. Everything is too sexualized for you and it really shows. I’m not an idiot. I understand the idea of appropriation. What I don’t understand is how EVERYTHING can be “too sexualized”. If I wanna dress as a damn cop and have my ass out, I will, and it will never be that serious.

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Anonymous #50 4w

yeah but a cop isn’t a religion, hope this helps

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Anonymous #13 4w

the point of this post was religions, if you want to have your ass out as a cop or sexy michael myers nobody cares

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Anonymous #13 4w

No and I actually fully acknowledged that. You’re saying “don’t disrespect religion and culture” and then there’s discourse about how prisoners and cops, or doctors, aren’t okay either. So my question is what CAN we wear because if nothing is acceptable that what is okay with you all??

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Anonymous #50 4w

yeah idk abt u but i wouldn’t consider dressing up as a profession the same as dressing up as a religious figure.. coming from an atheist

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Anonymous #18 4w

I don’t consider it the same 😭😭 mfs in this comment section are agreeing that nurses, doctors, cops, prisoners, etc. are equally as bad because “those professions are already oversexualized” so I’m saying cool, then what are my choices?

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Anonymous #50 4w

Girl I tricked them with my comment I’m on ur side 😹

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Anonymous #12 4w

I don’t see your comment 😭😭

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Anonymous #50 4w

pick something else? use tiktok for ideas? the options for costumes are endless you just need to be creative

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Anonymous #50 4w

i’ll be honest the profession costumes are so far from the actual profession (actual nurses wear full scrubs, not the short dress and the little hat) that i don’t think it’s that big of a problem. my problem is when religion is brought in

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Anonymous #13 4w

Awesome and I don’t dress as religious figures so case closed. I hope you’re saying the same shit under the comments saying sexy profession costumes are also disgusting!

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Anonymous #50 4w

These jobs aren’t related to religion but in fields such as these where women are already sexualized nor taken seriously, it’s distasteful. Let’s not forget how often women are raped while in the military. Like Vanessa Guillen. Try someone else. Next.

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Anonymous #13 4w

This makes zero sense because if the costumes were far from the professions, they wouldn’t even be identified as the target profession they’re dressing as lol. Of course the nurse costumes are skimpy and look nothing like actual nurse attire, it’s meant to be “sexy”. And historically, nurses DID infact wear those little caps, significantly in the 70s I believe. As well as the dresses, they were just longer. So again, the short attire is purposeful because it’s meant to be sexy.

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Anonymous #18 4w

Who said it was the same? I just don’t agree with either

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Anonymous #44 4w

Why are you stuck on the military babe? It’s HORRIBLE what happened to her, but dressing up as someone in the military is not making light of the situation.

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Anonymous #44 4w

You could make the argument that bad things have happened to people in all professions. Playboy bunnies? Hugh Hefner was horrible. Princesses? Most of them were given to the highest bidder and didn’t get to think for themselves. You just don’t want people to dress up because “one time this happened and you’re making light!!!!”

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Anonymous #50 4w

My body my Choice

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Anonymous #50 4w

No one is stuck on the military. It was brought up what? Twice? In order to make a point. Why are you so stuck on prople not agreeing with the Halloween costumes? And who said I agreed with those costumes? We’re not talking about playboy bunnies but religion & professions as costumes. And no one is saying you can’t dress up, let’s be serious. And you saying “Is not making light of the situation” did not help your case lol, because exactly.

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Anonymous #50 4w

But we can agree to disagree because I can only beat one dead horse at a time.

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Anonymous #28 4w

Yep absolutely!! You get to decide what you put on your body and what your reasons are

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Anonymous #26 4w

preditors 🥀🥀🥀🥀

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Anonymous #26 4w

They’re actually the most likely predators

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Anonymous #25 4w

i mean….priests maybe but in my own personal experience being in and around catholic churches and nuns since i was a kid and going to catholic school where i was taught by nuns, i never had any indication at all that that the sisters were anything but kind and loving people. everyone can have different experiences, but the ones i met actually even strongly disapproved of the over sexualization of women by men and talked with my male peers about respecting women

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Anonymous #25 4w

No they aren’t. Not any more likely than other teachers or people with access to little kids at least. Compared to general population, all teachers for students that are minors are more likely to be pedophiles, not because teaching makes someone a pedo but because pedos seek out places that give them access to children.

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Anonymous #44 4w

you’re right, but when people think what’s on the shelves of spirit halloween is all there is, they don’t have many options, which is why i have a more lenient view on them. also yes i know nurses used to wear those, they don’t anymore though. nuns still wear habits.

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Anonymous #13 4w

bye. Options? We have online shopping & if that isn’t feasible, there are other stores. So I don’t get the point of bringing up “limited” options.

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Anonymous #44 4w

girl i’m agreeing with you

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Anonymous #44 4w

there are some people who think the only options are the spirit halloween shelves. i’m not one of them

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