Aibu to think the JS costume is poor taste!

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Having been on fb, as didn't venture out this Halloween, lots have people have taken it upon themselves to dress up as JS for halloween.
Aibu to think it is in seriously poor taste?

I think it is fucking appalling. Rather like the oh-so-funny JS mask the Times printed Honestly!

What doesn't get me is the one i saw holding a plastic doll.
I just don't get whats funny or 'halloween' about it
He was a dirty old pervert and people are wanting to dress as him, why?

Too soon. It's disrespectful. Then again a friend of a friend dressed her young daughter up as a "murdered schoolgirl" for Halloween and seemingly doesn't see anything wrong. Makes Saville masks seem tame...

FYI - the times did not print a JS mask. There was a cartoon illustrating a story earlier in the week that had JS in an evil mask.

Later in the week, they printed a number of Halloween masks, but not a JS one. This error has been repeated by a number of people.

oh right. I stand corrected

Omg i just seen the photos on my news feed.Where he got his hands on the blow up dolls crutch.I really do not find paedophelia funny.I don't know why any would tbh.Yuck! What a disgisting person

Definetly not funny, only a complete jerk would dress as him or a closet paedo!

Is that the one your on about? Have you seen his profile pic though? What a moron

I couldn't believe it that large online fancy dress retailers are listing it as a best seller. I mean really. It's sick.

There's more though, it seems to be the staple 'halloween costume' of the year

the below is a quote from the Saturday Times explaining the issue. the Huffington post picture is the cartoon.

On Wednesday, The Times suffered something of a Hallowe?en monstering itself, after someone suggested on Twitter that our fancy dress ideas had included a cut-out mask of Jimmy Savile. The mask was, of course, Peter Brookes?s savage cartoon from the Opinion page ? depicting Savile as a monster ? on a different day and in a different part of the paper, but enough for the stick to be grasped firmly at the wrong end, and for the paper to be caught up in an flurry of upset and recrimination.
Douglas Kedge was concerned that ?the unthinking? might cut the mask out and wear it, thereby ?turning an appalling situation into no more than fun and games?. But Times readers are not unthinking. The recurring theme of the past fortnight has been how Savile hid his true nature behind a mask of affability, and the day when monsters roam the land was surely the one on which to reverse that picture and reveal the real beast.
Of those who wrote to Feedback, some seemed not to have seen the paper, but had picked up the scent of a scandal second hand. ?What the hell do you think you?re doing printing a fun Jimmy Savile halloween mask?? one asked. By the time he was writing, though, Twitter had policed itself, and for every repetition of the original complaint there were tweets pointing out it was a misapprehension.
The squall blew over as fast as it arose, but it did illustrate a growing issue for us. As the number of ways in which we broaden ? and we hope improve ? how we interact with our readers, so does the surrounding noise of the social networks increase. Our priority is not to lose sight of the thoughful and considered in among the general kerfuffle.

I think anyone who seriously thinks The Times would print any Halloween mask, let alone a Jimmy Savile one, has probably never read The Times.

Dressing up as Jimmy Savile is just rank. Can't believe anyone would be so crass.

More appropriate as a Guy surely.

My mother somewhat summed it up earlier, "they are dressing as him as he was a monster" -i completely get it now.