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[siderea]

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[siderea]

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[nancylebov]

Jewish Halloween Costumes

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[siderea]

I'm impressed how few hits there are. Most of those are Jewish in the sense they're costumes that Jews might wear, typically Jewish in-jokes. Dressing up as a bagel with cream cheese and lox is dressing up as a Jew only insofar as you are what you eat.

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[nancylebov]

There's absolutely nothing wrong with dressing up as a bagel. I'm not sure what I think of the dog costumes.

Dressing up as a nun or a (Catholic) priest is also a thing. So far as I know, it's impossible (rather than deprecated) to dress up as a Protestant. What would you wear?

I think modern people aren't as good at inventing iconography as people were a century(?) more or less ago.

[etherial]

I would submit that a handy behavioral guardrail concept, to keep oneself out of trouble, is "up as a". If you are planning a costume for Halloween that can be described as "dressing up as a", that should be a flashing yellow warning sign. As a rule of thumb to keep from doing something really rude to people who are already often being kicked when they're down: if your costume concept is an "up as a" costume, it had damned well better be of a referent that doesn't actually exist.

So...people shouldn't go dressed "up as a" nurse?

[juldea]

"that should be a warning sign" != "people shouldn't"

Siderea is giving people a mental shortcut for figuring out if they might be being problematic. If you are "dressed as a..." then you probably don't have to worry. If you are "dressed up as a..." then you should stop and think more. If you don't want to stop and think, then ignore anything that can be described by the latter.