Caitlyn Halloween Costume, The nasty/edgy jokes never stop when it comes to Caitlyn Jenner.
A gag "Call Me Caitlyn" Halloween costume, based on her lingerie-clad Vanity Fair cover, has sparked a backlash of outrage on Twitter about "transphobia."But the outrage against the costume won the day Tuesday:
The $74.99 getup — wig, padded bustier, shorts and a sash saying "Call Me Caitlyn" — was nowhere to be found on the Spirit Halloween website, where the slogan is, "So much fun it's scary!"
So far, Spirit Halloween has not commented on when the costume disappeared from its site or why.
However, the same costume is still available on the AnytimeCostumes.com and at WholesaleHalloweenCostumes.com, where it's only $49.95.
Earlier, the retailer defended the costume as a "celebration" of Jenner, said marketing director Lisa Barr.
But the costume designers at Spirit Halloween (it sells Halloween paraphernalia online and in stores that pop up in October) may have been a little spooked in the outpouring of 140-character scorn heaped on the Jenner costume since last week. There were even threats of violence.And not just on Twitter; spokespeople for transgender people condemned the costume as unfunny, contemptuous and mean.
"There's no tasteful way to 'celebrate' Caitlyn Jenner or respect transgender people this way on the one night of the year when people use their most twisted imaginations to pretend to be villains and monsters," said Vincent Villano, spokesman for the National Center for Transgender Equality in Washington.
The people at GLAAD, which monitors gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans images in the media, weren't happy either.
"When transgender women step out into the world as their authentic selves, they aren't wearing a costume," said a spokesman, Nick Adams. "Companies should think twice before seeking to profit from mocking trans women."
Meanwhile, the people who oppose trans people in general, and Jenner in particular, used the controversy to heap scorn on the former Bruce Jenner, whom they still refer to as "Bruce."
"The 'transgendered' must always be shown as brave, bold, heroic, and beautiful, and never as hideous, freakish, or a source of mental illness, as that would hit too close to the mark," sneered the right-wing online publication The American Thinker, which headlined its blog post on the matter last week, "Irony alert: Liberals furious over Bruce Jenner Halloween costumes".
Just for context, practically every year there are mini-controversies over Halloween costumes in questionable taste. For instance, the Miley Cyrus/Robin Thicke twerking episode at the VMA awards in 2013 produced Halloween costumes that year, including her foam finger, that raised eyebrows.
A gag "Call Me Caitlyn" Halloween costume, based on her lingerie-clad Vanity Fair cover, has sparked a backlash of outrage on Twitter about "transphobia."But the outrage against the costume won the day Tuesday:
The $74.99 getup — wig, padded bustier, shorts and a sash saying "Call Me Caitlyn" — was nowhere to be found on the Spirit Halloween website, where the slogan is, "So much fun it's scary!"
So far, Spirit Halloween has not commented on when the costume disappeared from its site or why.
However, the same costume is still available on the AnytimeCostumes.com and at WholesaleHalloweenCostumes.com, where it's only $49.95.
Earlier, the retailer defended the costume as a "celebration" of Jenner, said marketing director Lisa Barr.
But the costume designers at Spirit Halloween (it sells Halloween paraphernalia online and in stores that pop up in October) may have been a little spooked in the outpouring of 140-character scorn heaped on the Jenner costume since last week. There were even threats of violence.And not just on Twitter; spokespeople for transgender people condemned the costume as unfunny, contemptuous and mean.
"There's no tasteful way to 'celebrate' Caitlyn Jenner or respect transgender people this way on the one night of the year when people use their most twisted imaginations to pretend to be villains and monsters," said Vincent Villano, spokesman for the National Center for Transgender Equality in Washington.
The people at GLAAD, which monitors gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans images in the media, weren't happy either.
"When transgender women step out into the world as their authentic selves, they aren't wearing a costume," said a spokesman, Nick Adams. "Companies should think twice before seeking to profit from mocking trans women."
Meanwhile, the people who oppose trans people in general, and Jenner in particular, used the controversy to heap scorn on the former Bruce Jenner, whom they still refer to as "Bruce."
"The 'transgendered' must always be shown as brave, bold, heroic, and beautiful, and never as hideous, freakish, or a source of mental illness, as that would hit too close to the mark," sneered the right-wing online publication The American Thinker, which headlined its blog post on the matter last week, "Irony alert: Liberals furious over Bruce Jenner Halloween costumes".
Just for context, practically every year there are mini-controversies over Halloween costumes in questionable taste. For instance, the Miley Cyrus/Robin Thicke twerking episode at the VMA awards in 2013 produced Halloween costumes that year, including her foam finger, that raised eyebrows.
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