Halloween fake cuts - trigger warning

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AIBU to think that fake cuts with fake blood running are over the top and totally unnecessary and massively insensitive?

I’ve seen it several times today - on a supermarket employee, fake cuts on her neck and arms. Seen on several friends little darlings on Facebook- all younger kids, fake cuts all over arms and face etc.

I just don’t get how this is socially acceptable. I self injured for years and whilst I’m beyond the point where I’m triggered by stuff like this, a few years ago I would have been. But I’m genuinely dismayed and upset that people think it’s ok to dress kids like this, or dress like this in very public places (if you’re going to a Halloween party it’s one thing, but supermarket employees really should dress in non offensive outfits surely?)

AIBU?

Sometimes, not everything is about you. The world cannot cater for every single thing that might trigger any one person for any one reason.

I find it grotesque too OP. And costumes or props like hanging victims. It’s one reason why I’ve gone off Halloween.
plus the Kardashian clan dressing up like Toy Story’s Cowgirl. It’s a bit perverse to me. Just find it distasteful and mildly offensive. But I’m an old fart I suppose. Party pooper. Now where can I get a costume like that?

I agree with you OP! I really, really hate seeing this kind of thing. I’ve self harmed extensively in the past too, sending hugs. It’s triggering for me because of that, but mainly because it makes me think of domestic violence injuries and traumatic injuries that I’ve received or witnessed. Why anyone would make themselves up to look like they’ve received a facial injury then post it on social media is beyond me. Fuck anyone posting eye roll emojis about this, that’s not an appropriate reaction to someone upset about something that brings up traumatic memories .

Yabu.

Get a grip

Gore is not new! I can remember DM making 'dead men' for a Halloween tea when I was 8 or 9. They were actually hot dogs in finger rolls with a cheese head and some ketchup! She made 'blood & guts' (spaghetti & sauce) the next year. I'm 46.

Yes, I don't like it either. Supposed to be harmless fun, not people being hurt or murdered, which happens all too often in real life.

I'm American so I'm use to much worse on Halloween. The scarier the better!

Halloween has been around a long time but blood and gore associated with it is is very very new.

Errm...no it isn't!

Everyone is triggered by something OP but we have to life and let live. That's life.

They ARE dressed in non-offensive outfits OP. I remember 20 years ago being delighted my dad bought my brother and I fake blood and we played zombies. New??

For the poster saying how graveyards and tombstones aren't appropriate - Halloween is the bastardized pagan celebration of new year. The spirits are released for the night, then go back home, effectively - hence carving turnips and pumpkins to look scary, to keep them from your door. Graveyards and tombstones are very appropriate for the celebration. I get so fed up of so many people not knowing the basics behind it.

I think you can understand the meaning.history of it and still not like some aspects of it. I know it’s about the dead. I don’t like gravestones - I do however like skeletons and they don’t bother me. Everyone has their own sensitivities - I think talking about them is ok, we understand things aren’t going to benned because someone might find them upsetting.

Death, afterlife, gore, ghosts, the supernatural are fascinating subjects to loads of people and Halloween is a perfect way of introducing it all in a safe way to children. Finding ways of managing things we find upsetting builds resilience, we can't just ban everything we don't like in life.