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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."

 

[MeatRokket08]

Damn who would have thunk it!?!?!? You think Twitter is gonna make a comment about this, or are they just gonna sweep it under the rug like they do with ISIS Twitter accounts and child porn posting?

Huh, Trump's shadowbanned. Learn something new every day.

Just goes to show how off the rails Twitter has gone if they silence even the President of the United States

 

[KerryDixon9]

Retirement developer bought the land that the theme park wanted, so now theme park is fighting their planning application to try and make the land worthless to them.

Planning permission granted and Thorpe Park told to fuck off. No future complaints of noise from the retirement developer will be heard either.

 

[MadDamon]

Ever heard of the urban legend that a building next to railway has a uncommonly high birth rate because the people living in there were woken by the trains in the dawn and have nothing better to do besides sex?

Now imagine old people doing that because of rollercoaster.

 

[Android raptor]

Shocking study also finds that the bear Pope is Catholic and shits in the woods.

 

[QI 541]

B-b-but muh xkcd comic

 

[mindlessobserver]

This is just like that time in harry potter....

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

I mean, I'm not thrilled about political bias in social media, but comparing them to critical services like gas and electricity is sort of ridiculous.

 

[Far Queue]

All of this is just a conspiracy and Alex Jones is a crisis actor.

 

[QI 541]

I mean, I'm not thrilled about political bias in social media, but comparing them to critical services like gas and electricity is sort of ridiculous.

Every business in this day and age requires a social media now. There is no reason why a handful of unelected nerds should get to control hundreds of industries that aren't even related to theirs. This is 2019, the internet is a vital service now, get with the times grandpa.

 

[Some JERK]

I mean, I'm not thrilled about political bias in social media, but comparing them to critical services like gas and electricity is sort of ridiculous.

Electricity was considered a non-essential luxury until it wasn't. People (including royalty, and the fabulously wealthy ) existed perfectly fine for millennia without it. Then relatively overnight it became something over which your house could be condemned if you didn't have. I'm not saying that I think Twitter in particular is or should be considered a right, but the argument that social media is where public interaction and discourse are happening is undeniable. That said, I think government sticking its fat, incompetent sausage fingers into regulating social media like a utility would be a nightmare. The only solution I can see is public pressure.

 

[Furina]

I demand an investigation into the investigation on the investigation into the Trump-Russia connection! This is like a real world example of Kafka's The Trial, except somehow more ludicrous.

 

[break these cuffs]

Ever heard of the urban legend that a building next to railway has a uncommonly high birth rate because the people living in there were woken by the trains in the dawn and have nothing better to do besides sex?

Now imagine old people doing that because of rollercoaster.

Old people in homes fuck too much already. STDs are rampant among the eldery especially because safe sex wasn't taught when they were kids.

 

[not william stenchever]

This is the exact inverse of people who decided to move in next to a fucking highschool got mad and filed injunctions when they decided to build some real stands and shit on the football field where the marching band practiced. You all fucking knew there was a band playing there and sportsball happening with a cheering crowd. Now they want to build stands that will be in the way of the noise and suddenly you complain?

Also: You're threatening to waste our tenants retirement money on dumbass lawsuits! that's our fucking money!

 

[RG 448]

A retirement home that isn’t generating its own screams is a palace.

 

[KerryDixon9]

STDs are rampant among the eldery especially because safe sex wasn't taught when they were kids.

Yeah, that's it.

It's not the fact that the men barely get hard enough to get a condom on. It's not because they've got so little time to live they don't give a shit about an STD. It's because they weren't given sex ed lessons at school. The 50, 60 years of living and fucking didn't teach them anything, and now at the end of their lives they are paying the price.

You are AOC levels of stupid. Just fucking kill yourself.

 

[RG 448]

This is not surprising. Twitter is very clear about it’s ban on hateful rhetoric. A mass silencing of the right is inevitable.

 

[KerryDixon9]

Donald Trump blocking someone on Twitter is spitting on the first amendment, but Twitter giving permanent bans to conservatives they cannot even explain is totally fine because they are a private company.

 

[break these cuffs]

You are AOC levels of stupid. Just fucking kill yourself.

lol, calling me retarded and not knowing about dick hardening pills.

 

[KerryDixon9]

lol, calling me exceptional and not knowing about dick hardening pills.

How many people have died of herpes, and how many people have died because of complications because of viagra?

I doubt that even the old men who are willing to risk taking viagra get hard enough to put a condom on.

The reason that STDs are rampant is because the old fuckers don't want to be messing around with safe sex when they are close to death anyway. When you're 20 herpes is a life damaging virus, when you're 80 it's just another embarrassing ailment among many.

 

[User names must be unique]

I'm worried about the dementia riddled patients, they're probably gonna have PTSD style flashbacks from that noise and start running around looking for an air raid shelter.