DAUGHTER WANTS TO BE ‘MOANA’ FOR HALLOWEEN; MOM EXPLAINS CULTURAL APPROPRIATION

An article by a woman named Sachi Feris has been making the rounds on mommy Facebook groups. Feris writes that her 5-year-old daughter wanted to be Polynesian Disney character Moana, and Feris worried that it would be “cultural appropriation.” Her daughter’s other choice: Scandinavian Queen Elsa from the Disney movie “Frozen.” “I had some reservations regarding both costume choices … about cultural appropriation and the power/privilege carried by Whiteness, and about Whiteness and standards of beauty,” she wrote. Feris held a series of conversations with her daughter, focusing on the ethics of dressing as Moana, who in the movie sets out on a treacherous sea journey to save her family’s island from famine and destruction. In the end, Feris’s daughter decided to dress as Elsa – though Feris was concerned it might teach her short-haired brunette daughter that one must be white, blue-eyed and have long flaxen hair to be a “beautiful” princess. “One thing is for sure, our discussions around appropriate and inappropriate Halloween costumes will continue,” concluded Feris.
* Oh, that poor child.
* This started with the media being criticized for lack of diversity, so they had an explosion of diversity, which is now being criticized as “cultural appropriation”. Whoever the hell is behind this, please MAKE UP YOUR MINDS.
* First, grown-ups ruin Halloween by making it all about them, and now they ruin Halloween by not allowing their kids the freedom to imagine.
* This sounds like the kind of mother who gives out kale chips instead of mini-Snickers.
* Okay, kids, for Halloween, everybody dress as robots. That’ll be a safe choice right up until the robots become sentient.
* By the way, I hope nobody out there is planning to see “Thor: Ragnarok” ’cause Marvel Comics totally appropriated the culture of Scandinavia.
* PHONE TOPIC: Would you have the “cultural appropriation” talk with your kid?