Little Boy is Daphne for Halloween! Film at 11!

[anakhouri]

http://amfix.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/0...to-goes-viral/

OK, seriously? He's 5. Who gives a crap? Apparently a bunch of adults with nothing better to do. Get a hobby, people.

It's not unusual for little boys (and girls) to dress in the other gender's clothes. And maybe he just likes Daphne. This shouldn't even be on a national news site, it's ridiculous.

[blas87]

Around here, all the college guys dress as girls on Halloween it seems.

[Greenday]

Around here, all the college guys dress as girls on Halloween it seems.

I've done it a couple times for Halloween. Not a big deal. Plus the skirt was comfy last time.

[Rebel]

Just before halloween we had a mother come into my store with her 5 year old son. My CW asked him what he was going to be dressing up as for Trick or Treating and he proudly announced "I'm going as CINDERELLA!!".

I just loved the mums reaction.
"I'm happy to have him dressed up as Cinderella. He's either going to be absolutely fabulous when he's older, or I'm going to have awesome blackmail material."

It just annoys me that people freak the fuck out when young boys want to wear a 'girls' costume, but don't bat an eye if a girl wants to dress up as Jack Sparrow, Elvis, etc. I thought the best part of halloween was that you could dress up as something you're not for at least 1 night a year.

[Ginger Tea]

I went as Magenta from the Rocky Horror (picture) show to a flat warming round 96, we had alsorts, my mate went as the Crow and we had a blood stained lab coated bloke and my mum made 75% of the outfit, skirt petti coat and apron and the rest was just stockings plastic boobies and a black top, the long red hair was already a part of my head so no need for a wig.
We ended up having a flat leaving do the next month cos we were a bit too roudy, so we got rowdier
One woman where I used to work was jealous I could fit into a chineese dress (ok the lack of breasts helped) that was a size or two smaller than her other wise she would nick it off me

[IDrinkaRum]

When I was in like 5th(?) grade (maybe 4th), I dressed up as Boy George for Halloween. I wore the costume to school and everyone knew who I was. I think there's a picture of me somewhere floating around.

So I was a girl who was dressed as a boy who liked to look feminine. I had a black plastic hat that George wore in some of the Culture Club vids from the 80's, and my mom braided my hair like him and I borrowed a few of my dad's shirts. My mom even did my makeup! (I was so thrilled to be wearing honest-to-God makeup and I was like only 9 or 10 years old! I was hot stuff even if I was Boy George).

This was the image I was going for that Halloween.

[Greenday]

Junior year of college, I was a hooker.

Sophomore year of high school, I was a field hockey player.

It's really no big deal.

[tabbyblack13]

I don't see the big deal either. He a 5 year old. They don't know the difference and honestly if my kid (if I had one) wanted to do this I would let him. If there happens to be a lot of pictures for future use of blackmailing then so be it .

It seems to be a double standard. A girl can dress like a boy not be ridiculed. But a guy dressing as a girl will get ridiculed.

[Ginger Tea]

Junior year of college, I was a hooker.

strapped for cash that year were you :P

I don't see the big deal either. He a 5 year old. They don't know the difference and honestly if my kid (if I had one) wanted to do this I would let him. If there happens to be a lot of pictures for future use of blackmailing then so be it .

It seems to be a double standard. A girl can dress like a boy not be ridiculed. But a guy dressing as a girl will get ridiculed.

How many women have been called a transvestite for wearing trousers?
Aside from the Kilt, men wearing a skirt you must be a deviant, which makes me want to up the ante and walk around town with assless leather chaps and very little else

working in a giant fridge I've found that my now too tatty to wear goth string vest kept me very warm, cool in summer warm in winter, same applied to fishnets when I kept them on after a fancy dress gig, mini me didn't feel the cold at all.

My "made by Mum" Magenta costume still gets used, the skirt for the school disco theme at my local, 2 stage shows of Rocky Horror and one sing-along-a. I was tempted to go to the sing-along-a sound of music, just so I could buy and wear a Nuns Habbit, I still will and show up at my local in it for no other reason than I can (once the dust has settled from Captain Dickheads stupidity on Thursday)

[Amanita]

If you listen to the Maddonna song "What it feels like for a girl", there's a neat little voiceover at the beginning. "Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, it's okay to be a boy. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading. I guess you think that being a girl is degrading."

Sad really. People are making a big to-do out of nothing. But I think it was a bad move on mom's part to post those pics online, making comments about her son being gay. He's 5! Kids roleplay and dress up all the time, gender norms be damned.

[guywithashovel]

I just watched the news segment in the link, and I think the mother and father are a breath of fresh air. However, I do wish she hadn't posted the pictures online, since doing so means that they are probably going to be out in the open forever.

If I had a son who wanted to dress up like a female character for Halloween, I would probably be a little hesitant about it, but not for the reasons you may think. I would be worried that he would face bullying at school for his costume choice. Sometimes kids don't realize that choices like that are going to get them scorned until it's too late. I know that because I was a kid once, and I made a few choices that I initially thought were cool, but ended up getting me kicked around. Someone earlier in this thread mentioned a mother who said that she'd have great blackmail material someday because of her son dressing up like Cinderella. I don't mean to paint that mother in a bad light, but honestly, I cringe whenever I hear parents saying things like that. They just don't realize how cruel kids can be over that stuff.

[Hyena Dandy]

I dressed up as a girl when I was younger, and I...

Wait, bad example.

Eddie Izzard dresses as a girl and he's not gay!

[tabbyblack13]

...Someone earlier in this thread mentioned a mother who said that she'd have great blackmail material someday because of her son dressing up like Cinderella. I don't mean to paint that mother in a bad light, but honestly, I cringe whenever I hear parents saying things like that. They just don't realize how cruel kids can be over that stuff.

There are some children you have to blackmail. My brother for instance, there is a really cute picture of him dressed as a duck for a dance recital. Why do I do it? Because he deserves it. He loved to pick and bug me when I was younger and you know what? Blackmailing family members is fun.

I am also waiting for him to get me back. In my family it is kinda normal to do this stuff to each other.

[lordlundar]

Someone earlier in this thread mentioned a mother who said that she'd have great blackmail material someday because of her son dressing up like Cinderella. I don't mean to paint that mother in a bad light, but honestly, I cringe whenever I hear parents saying things like that. They just don't realize how cruel kids can be over that stuff.

No no no, you misunderstand. This isn't blackmail material for when they're still a kid, this is blackmail material for when the person is an adult and the parent want to gets even for all the trouble the kid caused while growing up.

[Ladeeda]

Just before halloween we had a mother come into my store with her 5 year old son. My CW asked him what he was going to be dressing up as for Trick or Treating and he proudly announced "I'm going as CINDERELLA!!".

I just loved the mums reaction.
"I'm happy to have him dressed up as Cinderella. He's either going to be absolutely fabulous when he's older, or I'm going to have awesome blackmail material."

Now that's a proper reaction. ^^

Yeah, that's gonna be some FUN stuff to show future girlfriends/boyfriends.


Don't ALL guys dress up as a girl for Halloween at some point? Junior high was when that started happening at my school. Thought it was some, like, dude Right of Passage.