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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."

 

[Android raptor]

This shit is ableism. Not people saying the word crazy or whatever the fuck tumblr is on about, but shit like this. And it's fucked.

 

[AlanRickmanIsDead]

I hate this world

Just remember, a friend is just a stranger who hasn't betrayed you yet.

 

[Skeletor]

Yeah, "bullying" is a word that gets overused these days. This is straight-up attempted murder.

 

[Sperglord Dante]

This shit is ableism. Not people saying the word crazy or whatever the fuck tumblr is on about, but shit like this. And it's fucked.

I'm not sure this is a deliberate act of hate.

Like, these two dipshits might be sociopaths like Harris and Klebold or those girls who stabbed another girl in Slenderman's name. They just wanted to kill someone. They picked the special needs boy because he was weaker and/or had no friends to protect him.

 

[QI 541]

What is with all these children getting fucked up this week?

 

[BadaBadaBoom]

Shit, this sounds like the background plot to a Silent Hill game. Fucking kids are vicious. I hope it was just one monster in the group and not a whole bunch of sociopaths picking on this poor kid.

 

[Gym Leader Elesa]

I won't lie, I laughed at the thread title.

 

[Batman VS Tony Danza]

I read the title as "10 year old species needs boy set on fire by bullets"

I think I'm going blinf

 

[Intelligent Calcium]

Yeah, "bullying" is a word that gets overused these days. This is straight-up attempted murder.

Boys will be boys.

 

[Too Many Crooks]

...Jesus Christ- imagine how this poor kid's parents feel, finding out their son has been purposely set on fire.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

Although I think "bullies" is a little bit too mild to describe this kind of thing.

Kayden Culp is now in a medically induced coma (and may not even make it) after two fuckwads threw gasoline on the kid and then lit him on fire. One of the perps was arrested and charged with arson so far. Nothing was really said about them, since they're juveniles. I'm hoping though that they're old enough to charge as adults, because this goes waaaaaay beyond bullying. This is sociopath territory. (Some articles are suggesting it may have been planned in advance)

In the great tradition of the cavemen before them, they were trying to do something stupid with fire, which ended horribly.

 

[Without A Gout]

The sad part is that the kid has autism, which group suffers bullying, physical violence and social ostracism at far more exponential rates than the general population. The kid was naive enough to believe those kids actually wanted to play with him. Now, he lies in a hospital.

No kid deserves this shit. None.

 

[melty]

But did they mock him on twitter? That would be the real crime here.

 

[DuskEngine]

lol owned

 

[Yhwach]

I hate this world

The fundraiser for Kayden and his family reached $180,000 a little while ago. Three updates on his condition have been posted on the page since yesterday, so we can at least hear how he's doing through all this. I plan to donate something later since I'm half-asleep right now.

 

[Chan the Wizard]

Calling it now: kids were playing with gas and fire and didn't intentionally set him ablaze.

 

[AnOminous]

Children are scum, just as a matter of nature. And we are now raising them to continue to be scum, rather than forcing them to be members of society.

Society as it currently exists represents the ongoing disaster that this is.

Children should be beaten until they're normal.

 

[Yhwach]

Shit, this sounds like the background plot to a Silent Hill game. Fucking kids are vicious. I hope it was just one monster in the group and not a whole bunch of sociopaths picking on this poor kid.

While the other two kids may not have set Kayden on fire themselves, it doesn't change the fact they participated in (possibly premeditated) attempted murder.

If these psychopaths were capable of doing this at such a young age, then I hate to imagine what could happen once they become able-bodied adults...

 

[AnOminous]

While the other two kids may not have set Kayden on fire themselves, it doesn't change the fact they participated in (possibly premeditated) attempted murder.

If these psychopaths were capable of doing this at such a young age, then I hate to imagine what could happen once they become able-bodied adults...

We have some bullshit idea that juveniles should be forgiven the fact that they're subhuman, murderous monsters. Why?

Why shouldn't we just treat them like they act, and that is that they don't even deserve to exist to adulthood, and just legalize abortion to the 54th trimester?

 

[DragoonSierra]

Children are scum, just as a matter of nature. And we are now raising them to continue to be scum, rather than forcing them to be members of society.

Society as it currently exists represents the ongoing disaster that this is.

Children should be beaten until they're normal.

I swear youre like the reincarnation of Nixon or something