To refuse to send my child to a pirate party

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A nursery friend of my 4 yo DS is having a pirate themed birthday party. I’m planning to decline the invite as I don’t think it’s appropriate for little children, or anyone for that matter, to dress up as a pirate - it’s glorifying and sentimentalising criminal men who raped, robbed and murdered.

FFS, piracy used to carry the death penalty until recently! You wouldn’t let your child go to a Nazi themed party - I can’t see much difference!

Poor kid
You aren’t going to help her make friends with that attitude
Unless there will be any actual raping and pillaging going on I wouldn’t worry about it.

Good lord, kids dress up as pirates all the time! It won’t make them rape and pillage

You have a complete right to your opinion but I think that's ridiculous.

Lol

Yep.
Yabu.

I think they will be more likely to play pass the parcel and musical statues than rape and murder each other. You could always clarify that with the parents though.

I hope this isn’t my DD’s party as I’ve just sent a load of invites and haven’t heard back from a few of the boys yet...

Well my children’s will never become unicorns, or princesses or dragons, unlikely to be a tart or vicar, or a super hero.

Doubt they’ll be a baker so that’s cup cake parties out as well.

You're a bit of a killjoy then

Kids like to play all sorts of characters 'goodies and badies' it's all perfectly normal child development.

You however are odd.

🤣

Lol. Good luck when Halloween comes round!

Oh for God’s sake.....

Talk about first world problems OP.

Brilliant.

Don't let him go then.

The only person missing out will be your son...missing the party and missing having a sane parent...poor boy.

This has to be a wind-up.

Shit. I was about to invite your kid to my Pol Pot Lego party this year.

Give over.

I find the pirate thing weird - it's like kids will be dressing as terrorists in 400 years time. But I don't let that get in the way of my DC having fun, that would be even weirder.

You wouldn’t let your child go to a Nazi themed party

You don't know me!

Depends on the cultural meaning of pirate in your community. If you're in Somalia I quite agree. If you're outlawing Peter Pan etc I do get your point but find it a bit ridiculous. There will be bigger things to feel strongly about and veto. Your child will miss out on other things down the line because you genuinely have an insurmountable issue with it. We don't do sleepovers, for instance. But every veto comes with a price tag for your child so think carefully.

Arf arf

You could always clarify that with the parents though

Good call.