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With Halloween coming up, I've gotten several questions about whether I'm okay with cis people dressing up as me/Contra characters. Here's my official take on that, a thread:
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What we're all trying to avoid here is jokey costumes where the joke is "lol trans people."
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I drove for Uber on Halloween 2015, and saw a few cis guys dressing up as Vanity Fair Caitlyn Jenner and, oof, I sure side-eyed that shit.
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So cis guys putting on a dress and lipstick and being like "lol, I'm ContraPoints"—I'd prefer it if you would nooooot do thaaaaaaat.
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But if you want to dress up as any of my characters I'm completely fine with it, no matter your gender id. (Yes that includes the pink wig/lab coat look, which is not, believe it or not, how I actually dress off camera.)
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This isn't even slightly problematic as I see it. You're not dressing up as me, you're dressing up as a character I invented.
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Honestly I find it really adorable and flattering that people are even thinking of doing costumes based on me, a pretty obscure YouTuber.
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So in short, go nuts with it, as long as 1. the joke/point of the costume isn't "lol I'm wearing a dress I'm trans lol" and 2. you send me pictures so I can favorite and retweet them.
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Also, use common sense. It's not a good idea to dress up as Fritz because out of context that could be pretty threatening to people who aren't in on the joke.
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I drove for Uber on Halloween the year after. I decided to dress up as a zombie cowboy (it was all I had, don't judge!) complete with blood coming out my nose and ears. Then was reported to Uber as being dressed as a Texan with Ebola since that was the month of the Ebola case.
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imho all caitlin jenner costumes need a "make america great again" hat, mock something other than transness
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