1. Please be considerate of the fact that some of us may not love costumes that revolve around our bodily functions…
…like periods and giving birth straight from our stomachs.
I won’t deny it — this is a pretty clever costume. It just…it just makes me uncomfortable?
2. Some of us are weirded out (or just confused) when you show up to the party dressed like a cross between a children’s movie character and a playboy bunny.
3. You may find a few of us cringing if you chose to dress up like a “stripper nun”…
…or if you play into the Jewish sterotype by portraying the friendly, neighborhood rabbi as a man with a beard so big, it could quite possibly swallow an entire Jewish village whole.
4. Sometimes Halloween costumes run a fine line between funny and offensive. Keep that in mind if you’re considering playing the role of a mouse that’s gone blind.
5. But also, some Halloween costumes are down right rude. Please, please, don’t purposefully apply a black face for halloween. A skin color is not a fashion statement.
6. And not that I thought you would, but wearing a costume that will completely offend anyone on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum is probably something you’d do best to avoid.
7. If you’re looking to make new friends at a Halloween party, maybe don’t wear this:
8. or this:
9. And this one we could probably do without:
Just because your mom isn’t trick-or-treating with you anymore, you think that it’s okay to be rude on Halloween?
WHY?
Why do you think this is an okay thing to do?!
10. Also, I don’t know if you’ve heard, but there are killer clowns literally running around the United States so please, just this one Halloween, don’t be a scary clown.
Amen.