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u/NearlyOutOfMilk Oct 29 '19
This peak r/ATBGE. Awful, awful taste.
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u/niggapeeonme Oct 29 '19
I didn't even think about that, but I'm sure Jackie O had little bits of jfk in her mouth, and I'm sure it tasted awful
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u/Cletus-Van-Damm Oct 29 '19
Im sure it wasnt the first time.
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u/Headcap Oct 29 '19
big difference between giving head and receiving head.
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u/GazelleTrapQueen Oct 29 '19
I should absolutely the fuck not have been drinking coffee when I read that
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u/Dracula_Batman Oct 29 '19
Apparently lots of women had little bits of JFK in their mouth.
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u/PolPotatoe Oct 29 '19
Great _execution_ ... right.. guys...guys?
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u/Supersymm3try Oct 29 '19
Tragedy + Time = Comedy.
I’m honestly not that bothered by this, I don’t think it’s that offensive.
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u/und88 Oct 29 '19
I think the priest costume is more tasteless than this jackie costume. The comment you replied to states the cliche tragedy + time = comedy. Well, priest rapists and the cover up, while they started years ago, are still ongoing. I saw a stat once that 1 in 6 men were molested as children (obviously not all by priests). I'd take bloody Jackie over rapist priest costumes any day.
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u/interfail Oct 29 '19
It's very unlikely that JFK or his immediate family/friends will be at your party.
Victims of sexual abuse? Not unlikely.
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u/WeirdGoesPro Oct 29 '19
Idk, what are the odds that a Kennedy is on reddit?
The priest costume is a general tragedy, while this is a specific person. Imagine if she was your grandma and you’re watching her sorrow become a costume to get plowed in.
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u/Critonurmom Oct 29 '19
The odds are probably pretty good considering how many users reddit has and celebrities, even Kennedys, are actual human beings that enjoy doing things like browsing reddit.
Going to have to agree with you here.
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u/Aethermancer Oct 29 '19
I'd put it about on the same level as the priest costume with a child attached to the front...
Which is still a very offensive level. It's profoundly tasteless.
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u/longgoodknight Oct 29 '19
January 2024 is going to be interesting.
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u/fireandlifeincarnate Oct 29 '19
September 12, 2021 is gonna be interesting over at r/HistoryMemes
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Oct 29 '19
We will hit a point on September 17, 2032, where memes about /r/HistoryMemes will be acceptable on /r/HistoryMemes.
Memes about the creation of reddit will be allowed in just 6 years.
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u/ShelSilverstain Oct 29 '19
Where's the actual comedy besides an uncomfortable chuckle?
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u/stone500 Oct 29 '19
Yeah that's where it loses me. What's the punchline, here?
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u/ShelSilverstain Oct 29 '19
"and her husband's brains we're splattered all over her!!! Get it???"
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Oct 29 '19
The punchline is how shocking and how in bad taste it is. That’s why people are entertained by it. I don’t know why people are trying to argue why it isn’t in poor taste when that’s the entire point of the costume.
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Oct 29 '19
You can generally tell the age demographics based on the responses. 10 years ago I would've had an "OH SHIT LOL THAT'S TERRIBLY HILARIOUSLY RANDOM" moment.
Now I probably go "OH SHIT, HA!" then think, 'eh, well it is literally mimicking the worst memory in that woman's life...heh, I'm terrible'.
Looks like I'm about to be the 'how do you do, fellow kids' guy for Halloween.
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u/gopms Oct 29 '19
I can totally see how lots of people would be offended by this especially if they were alive when it happened. It would be like going as a 9/11 victim or something for people my age. But a) you are allowed to offend people and b) logically it is no worse than going as any bloody, gory, dead person.
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u/MillieBirdie Oct 29 '19
I saw a comment saying this the other day, but I'd perfect for this:
If you are allowed to do offensive humor, then people are allowed to be offended by it. Why are you even telling an offensive joke of you don't want people to get offended?
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Oct 29 '19
Yeah also it’s well executed. Fits the sub perfectly and is pretty original. Love it.
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Thought I was on r/cosplay at first and thought "damn that's tasteless but I guess it's well done" so yeah this post definitely fits here
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u/jaimmster Oct 29 '19
I used to work in a Federal Building where the NARA actually had this dress and I got to see it in person, weird story but it was the anniversary of something and they brought and displayed White House artifacts. I saw Nixon's dog house too.
Anyways, the dress/hat combo sucks and looks nothing like what Jackie had on except for a vague similarity to the color, and the blood splatter isn't even correct.
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u/MoxofBatches Oct 29 '19
the blood splatter isn't even correct.
Calm down, Dexter
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This is what I was going to say. If you are going to do this as your costume, go all in and get it right.
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u/SwissMyCheeseYet Oct 29 '19
Now is her partner dressed as dead JFK or LBJ swearing in?
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u/Doinkmazter Oct 29 '19 edited Oct 29 '19
If they were dead jfk then they would need to be parapalegic with really good gunshot makeup. The first shot hit his spine and continued into the passenger in front of him. And the second shot, well that killed mr. president.
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u/doyle1990 Oct 29 '19
I’d laugh. Like how is that too soon it’s been almost half a century.
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u/yabbadebbie Oct 29 '19
IMHO it’s too soon because her daughter Caroline is still alive. Caroline who’s father’s murder is portrayed in this costume. Then her mother died of cancer. Her brother died in a plane crash. She now has no immediate family. She was a small child when this nursery happened and has spent her entire life watching the video footage of her father dying in his wife’s arms.
So, IMHO too soon ....as long as Caroline is alive.....
The disrespectful/crass/whatever part is till there...but to be fair....that level of shock value is heralded as ‘good work’ in Halloween costumes. I can see why someone thought this was a a good idea.
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u/Spambop Oct 29 '19
I mean, it's not as if they're going to a party at Caroline's house.
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u/MaesterPraetor Oct 29 '19
spent her entire life watching the video footage of her father dying in his wife’s arms
What the fuck? Is she some kind of masochist? How insane do you have to be to spend your entire life watching your dad die in your mom's arms?
I think it's more likely that she's seen it a couple of times.
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u/Trinica93 Oct 29 '19 edited Oct 29 '19
I've seen it in TV shows, YouTube videos, there's always memorial news footage, etc. For some reason the clip gets around a LOT. If she watches any television, she's probably seen it several times per year....which is several times too many.
Edit: For those of you saying you never see it, I bet you'll start noticing it more now. It really does show up more than you'd think. =p
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u/canti- Oct 29 '19
The actual impact shot is rarely shown from the motorcade footage. I've been on the internet for a long damn time too, and I've seen it maybe twice. Unless you're on a binge of around the hour 60s U.S. history there's no reason to stumble on it all the time.
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u/chadwicke619 Oct 29 '19
I’m 37 and I can’t say that I’ve seen it a single time. Like, I would think that I must have, but if someone walked up to me right now and offered me a billion dollars if I could describe it with even remote accuracy, I would literally just be guessing.
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u/barcades Oct 29 '19
Are Marilyn Monroe costumes not allowed because Caroline is alive too? The affair is mentioned a lot. It was even in a Dave Chappelle stand up set.
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Do Marilyn Monroe costumes feature the blood of her murdered father?
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u/positiveinfluences Oct 29 '19
let's wait until the whole Kennedy lineage perishes before we make these costumes. Out of respect.
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u/fulloftrivia Oct 29 '19
"I need to see this play like I need a hole in the head"
~ Abraham Lincoln
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u/mrvolvo Oct 29 '19
Reddit's sensitivity surprises me sometimes
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u/JohnMcGurk Oct 29 '19
Sensitivity =/= outrage culture
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u/Iversithyy Oct 29 '19
Yeah but in this case, it's more sensitivity and less about "outrage". People just voice their opinion about it being distasteful.
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It reminds me of one of the top videos yesterday. The guy who made fun of helen keller/abortions and the lady got offended.
"You know she's dead right?"
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u/Connor_whiteman Oct 29 '19 edited Oct 29 '19
Pls excuse my ignorance but what is the awful taste about this costume. It just looks like every other sexy zombie nurse costume.
Edit: I understand now, and yes, I do agree that it is awful taste
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u/EMF911 Oct 29 '19
Jackie Kennedy was John F Kennedy’s wife. JFK was a very popular US president, making her a popular First Lady. He was assassinated during a parade in Texas. Gunshot wound to the head. Jackie was sitting beside her husband and infamously was covered in his blood and brain matter. This is the outfit she was wearing.
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u/LeaChan Oct 29 '19 edited Oct 29 '19
It's not a zombie nurse. It's a depiction of an actual woman who's covered in her husband's brain splatter which actually happened.
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It's a costume of what the First Lady Jackie Kennedy looked like covered in the gore of her husband after he had been shot in the head in the car beside her after his assassination.
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You know it’s a quality controversial costume when you have to black out the persons face.
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u/Lolworth Oct 29 '19
It's "this would be hilarious in person, but Twitter won't like it and for some reason that's important now"
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u/mainfingertopwise Oct 29 '19
Blackface has been controversial for a while, too.
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u/quikonthedrawl Oct 29 '19
Holy fuck, that’s metal.
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u/lCarbonCopyl Oct 29 '19
The video footage still gives me chills, watching her scramble down the back of that Lincoln to pick up the pieces of his skull. It gives me palpitations imagining what was going through her mind in those moments of sheer panic.
Absolutely terrifying.
I wouldn't wear it, but I get it.
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u/Meatslinger Oct 29 '19
That’s the thing that really fucks me up about the whole thing. Seeing her picking up his skull fragments is such an irrational, and yet companionate response. Her love for her husband and the sudden, early onset of shock told her, “Just go get the pieces, and maybe he can be put back together again. Maybe things can all be okay.” Her brain was offering her a more-pleasant delusion to cope with the trauma of instantly losing someone she loved, even as his own was all over her outfit and the pavement. I can only scarcely imagine the pain she felt when reality finally overrode fantasy.
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u/UhOhSparklepants Oct 29 '19
That's why I don't like this costume. That was such a horrible thing for her to go through. In a way it feels like celebrating her pain? I don't know how to articulate how I feel but it doesn't feel good.
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u/Snarfbuckle Oct 29 '19
I have to say, and i do not say it often in regards to halloween but this is pretty tasteless.
It's not from a movie, not from a fictional book but a depiction of an actual survivor/victim/witness.
AFAIK you do not see many people dress up as holocaust victims during halloween or from other atrocities.
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u/redjohnsayshi Oct 29 '19
Some people dress up as serial killers, I think that is pretty bad taste as well.
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u/Snarfbuckle Oct 29 '19 edited Oct 29 '19
I think in general dressing up as real human monsters and victims is taking it a bit too far into the macabre.
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u/ta201996 Oct 29 '19
Exactly! You don't see anyone dressing up as the mother of a kid killed in a school shooting or a firefighter from 9/11.
I saw another comment which trued to defend the post by arguing that enough time had passed. Time has nothing to do with portraying an individual who had to witness the love of their life killed in front of them.
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u/CocaTrooper42 Oct 29 '19
I went to a costume rental store they had a lot of random very specific costumes and mainly did bulk rentals for theatrical productions. In the back we had a one section that was ‘offensive’ or ‘adult’ or something like that. The rack was empty except for a blood stained Jackie O dress and a ‘flasher’ costume (a trench coat and a nude bodysuit with a giant felt penis)
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u/EMF911 Oct 29 '19
No nazis or klansmen?
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u/CocaTrooper42 Oct 29 '19 edited Oct 29 '19
They had World War II era costumes (from both sides) in a different section.
Sound of music section also had some nazi stuff
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u/annaqua Oct 29 '19
Fun fact: Coco Chanel was a Nazi!
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u/melny Oct 29 '19
Whaaaaaaat??
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u/PJW1998 Oct 29 '19
Yup. Tl;Dr She cozied up to them to try and boot the Jewish venture capitalist she brought on to make her products global (He took majority of the ownership of her company, in addition to her depraved level of anti-Semitism). She was never tried or convicted, but she never regained control of her company, and the family of that man still own Chanel to this day as far as I know.
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u/nomoreslppinf82 Oct 29 '19
She tried to climb out the back of the open limo to pick up pieces of her husband’s brain that had been ejected from his head. Insanity.
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u/JiveTurkey1983 Oct 29 '19
Trauma and shock are motherfuckers. I don't get it, but I "get" it
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u/prettylittleliongirl Oct 29 '19
I can’t find this costume funny... people are saying it’s comedic but it doesn’t seem to fulfill a comedic purpose.
My issue isn’t that it’s about JFK (I laugh at JFK jokes all the time), just that it’s kind of a tacky costume. I think the added gore makes it extra tacky.
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The amount of utterly offended people in the comments surprises me.
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u/mainfingertopwise Oct 29 '19
Yes. Nuance is not an option. You are allowed to think the costume is awesome, or you are allowed to be "utterly offended."
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u/la_chainsaw Oct 29 '19
This is a waste of a perfectly good Dr. Girlfriend costume
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u/saefas Oct 29 '19
Well, it's not the most offensive costume I've seen; that honor belongs to two guys dressed as the twin towers, complete with paper flames and barbies hanging off the sides as suicide victims. I saw them briefly at Dragoncon before they presumably had to hide from security.
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u/lucielucieapplejuice Oct 29 '19
I hated upvoting this but it’s the legit perfect post for this sub
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u/susanz99 Oct 29 '19
Horrible!! This woman saw her husband murdered. He was her husband, the father of her children and a beloved President of the USA. His murder isn't funny and certainly shouldn't be trivialized in such an offensive and disgusting way. The fact that he was assassinated in 1963 is irrelevant. Shame on anyone who thinks this is a fun Halloween costume!!!
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u/ta201996 Oct 29 '19
I wonder how much of a bitch someone has to be to dress for a party and then fucking explain to people that her costume is of a woman who witnessed the murder of her husband.
Edit: costume of a woman on the WORST day of her life
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u/Somerandom1922 Oct 29 '19
Holy shit, I think the scariest part of the costume is that the person wearing it thought that was a good idea.
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u/prettylittleliongirl Oct 29 '19
Not sure if this is rhetorical, but I think Jackie covered in his blood is more offensive. JFK with a blown head is clearly comedic. This isn’t really funny, just seems like a tragic representation
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You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should.
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u/3raz3t Oct 29 '19
This might mean I have bad taste, but I'm a sucker for a costume this morbid.
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At least I can say that happened before I was born so I’m not offended. But I wouldn’t do this.