Posted on 10/22/2022 12:27:10 PM PDT by Drew68
Just as someone else’s culture shouldn’t be your costume, someone else’s trauma shouldn’t be, either. eBay has moved to ban the sale of Jeffrey Dahmer costumes ahead of Halloween, Buzzfeed News reports. Dahmer’s story has surged back into the public eye—often to exploitative effect—with Ryan Murphy’s record-breaking new Netflix series Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
“These items are prohibited for sale on our site and we are removing them,” a spokesperson from eBay tells Buzzfeed of the ban on Dahmer-inspired attire. The spokesperson also confirms that eBay continues to actively remove listings from the platform—anything that violates its policy on glorifying violence and violent criminals. As of this writing, a search for “jeffrey dahmer costume” yields 0 search results on eBay, as does an inquiry for “jeffrey dahmer mask.”
eBay’s policy states that sellers are prohibited from listing items that “promote or glorify violence,” or that are associated with violent people, notorious crimes, or crime scenes from the past century. That criteria certainly includes Dahmer, who killed 17 predominantly Black men and boys between 1978 and 1991.
Although Dahmer quickly skyrocketed to the top of Netflix’s ranks as one of the streamer’s biggest original debuts ever, the series has also faced its fair share of criticism. Rita Isbell, the sister of one of Dahmer’s victims, Errol Lindsey, has publicly written about her distaste for the show. A painstaking recreation of Isbell’s emotional 1992 victim impact statement at Dahmer’s sentencing hearing appears in Dahmer. Isbell says Netflix never contacted her, or her family, about the show.
“The victims have children and grandchildren. If the show benefited them in some way, it wouldn’t feel so harsh and careless,” Isbell writes. “It’s sad that they’re just making money off of this tragedy. That’s just greed.”
Just as someone else’s culture shouldn’t be your costume, someone else’s trauma
See who?
Just as someone else’s culture shouldn’t be your costume, someone else’s trauma
Sez who?
Why do we even have Halloween?? Never figured it out.
How about Abortionist costumes? Complete with bloody baby parts.
Simple but extremely effective and funny. My kids are grown so I am a bit out of touch. Thanks!
LOL...Kids can recognize repulsive things. Have you ever seen this one? The kid crying after being called a Democrat? LOL LOL.....https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRHt3Cmu/
LOL, now that was pretty funny!!!!
Pfft. If someone wants to make fun of me and make me out to be an uptight white dork of a guy, what am I going to do about it?
I’m going to simply grin and bear it. I’m not going to ask someone to go to bat for me and stick up for me because someone is making fun of me...
We live in times of emotional fragility. Sad to say.
People were doing that when I went to college 30 years ago. A bloody set of scrubs and baby doll parts attached to them.
The 90s were great for politically incorrect halloween costumes!
One of my favorites was a guy who dressed as an Indian with smallpox. He had an Indian headdress, a wool blanket, and fake smallpox pustules all over his face and arms.
Damn, that one pissed off the whiny libs!
I think widespread emotional fragility is far more dangerous and destructive than the vast majority of people perceive.
Emotional fragility is weakness, and weakness invites aggression.
You are correct
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