I mean really, come on...cross dressing! My 6th grader told me last week she couldn't be the fat, funny, male golfer for Halloween as she has planned. One of the teachers told the 6th graders in a meeting, it was "cross dressing". Today, as I picked her up from school I asked my daughter, if she was certain the teacher used the words "cross dressing" and she said, 'Ya, they had another meeting today and the head of middle school said...the same! if they dressed as someone of the opposite sex, this would not be allowed because it's cross dressing and therefore, used the same words.
I have called to speak with the management of the school.
The teacher and the head could have told the children, 'we prefer the children not dress as the opposite sex because it may insult the opposite sex or something like this'?
I don't know how to view this, but certainly it's not right. What do you think? And how would you handle it, if you disagreed or if you don't? What's your stance? I'm floored...
2007-10-24 19:48:28 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Halloween
That's stupid!
I mean, its HALLOWEEN!
People dress as the devil, or maybe even as God, why can't a boy dress as a girl for Halloween? It's not cross dressing, specially if its on the "everyone-should-dress-as-something" day. Last Halloween I went with my mom to Wal-Mart and we saw the manager of Wal-Mart dressed as a girl, he was even wearing a pink skirt.
That doesn't make him a cross-dresser. Cross dressers always dress like the opposite sex, he only did it for fun one day and one day only. That's called "having a sense of humor"
No, its not cross-dressing.
2007-10-27 04:43:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would be having a serious talk with the powers that be at that school and trying to explain to them that the last time that I had checked that I understood Halloween to be a day that you could dress up how you like and nobody think anything about it because it didn't reflect on what the person was really was like but just to pretend to be something that you're not and that if my child wanted to dress up like a retired or dead golfer then guess what: that is what they are going to do and they had better try to explain their closed-minded issues to me.
2007-10-25 05:43:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's cross dressing, but it's not quite the same because it's more expected that people are going to dress up as the opposite sex for Halloween. It's been going on for decades without anyone having any trouble with it. What these people are doing is trying to control what people wear as costumes. And that's a load of BS.
2007-10-25 02:58:04 · answer #3 · answered by knight1192a 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Its certainly not crossdressing on halloween, as much as going as a monster or villian makes you a killer.
This school is going way out of its way to kill fun. I would really suggest standing up to them as a way to show your daughter we live in a free country where others don't have absolute control. I would suggest talking to the administration about their comment/rule, explain that as her mother you find nothing inappropriate about the costume, that she will be wearing the costume on halloween and that if she is sent home the next call they will receive will be from your lawyer. the threat of a lawsuit should calm them down a bit.
2007-10-25 13:43:26 · answer #4 · answered by Sydney 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That is honestly, really ridiculous to me. Halloween is about having fun, and dressing up as whatever you want to be for that day only.
You'd think that they would be glad that she doesn't want to be something sexy. I would ask them myself, or have her dress up as something else. Or better yet, have her do it anyway, I don't see the big deal.
2007-10-25 03:24:59 · answer #5 · answered by ***cee-cee!!!!!!! o 1 · 4⤊ 0⤋
thats not really a question, more like a statement. And im pretty sure the deffinition of cross dressing is "dressing up as the opposite sex". Why would you want her going as a fat male golfer anyways, thats not even that funny at all...
2007-10-25 02:55:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 6⤋
Yes, it is cross-dressing. Its ok if we choose that by choice, but your forcing it onto someone esle.
Think of your daughters shame and embarassement. Not of your own sexual fantasies and desires.
2007-10-25 02:57:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 7⤋