[ SECRET POST #2486 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2486 ⌋

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Comments

[morieris]

Do these people know that they make CHILDREN'S COSTUMES of Jinafire, Clawdeen, Skelita, Abbey, Lagoona, Frankie, Draculaura...half the damn cast?

As long as we're not painting ourselves something that can be mistaken for another race - I'm not even going to talk about the Catty Noir debacle - people can cosplay whatever they like.

[(Anonymous)]

Woah, what happened with Catty Noir? I really liked her design and I'm not really in the fandom so I feel like I missed something. :(

[(Anonymous)]

There's a young girl who has videos on youtube of dressing up/makeup of various monster high characters (I haven't watched the video; I don't know if she does the makeup, or an adult does), and she dressed up as Catty Noir, painting her face black (literally black. Like a cat.) in the process.

Cue tumblr getting upset at her "blackface".

[(Anonymous)]

what...? but... that's not even what blackface is.

[(Anonymous)]

Apparently tumblr is too stupid to know the difference between blackface and a face painted black.
If they were going to be offended about something, it should have been that she was in catface, but wait...

[(Anonymous)]

Umm are you sure it wasn't THIS one that caused a "blackface" shitstorm?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz8P6YerMmU

I'm not even in the fandom but I randomly happened upon this video one day and yeah, the black face implications are kinda there. Unless her skin is suppose to be "bronze" like the asian ones skin is suppose to be "golden".

[(Anonymous)]

It wasn't that one, it was definitely the one for Catty Noir.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah my mistake then. I'm not in the fandom so I have no clue. I would think that this would be the more obvious bait for that kind of stuff.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, the character she's dressing up as in that video is a robot made of copper, so it's the same situation as the Asian one's gold scales.

[mekkio]

Especially since if you are cosplaying Monster High characters, you are cosplaying as non-Humans. To say that only certain ethnic groups can cosplay as, say, Clawdeen, you are saying only those people can be werewolves. Which the more you think about it, the more absurd the idea becomes. Clawdeen is werewolf. Her skin color isn't brown. Her FUR is brown. When you are looking at her, you aren't seeing skin. You are seeing fur. Just like Skelita is a skeleton. You have no idea what her skin color is because she doesn't have any skin. She could be an Euro-Latina. Or indigenous New World Latina. Or Afro-Latina. You don't know.

Again, the more you think about it the more absurd the idea only certain groups are allowed to cosplay MONSTERS is.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes this. I think the problem with dressing as say Clawdeen is that people might be inclined to color their skin brown, which is a bad idea. But if you just get the wig and the fangs and the outfit and the doggy ears and if you want you can make suggestions at fur, that's fine.
Skelita I can also see being a problem because there's a huge problem with cultural appropriation of sugar skulls, but IMO white people and some non Latin@ POC care about that more than 90% of Mexicans, and the rest of Latin America doesn't even celebrate Dia De Los Muertos. (I say this being Latina myself)