One funny side effect of the season is people’s efforts to provoke and in some cases, offend. My girlfriend joked that Halloween is the only day they are allowed to act slutty (lot of slutty fairies out there)
Other than that, what is the most offensive costume you’ve seen?
I’m not easily offended, but I can see how the priest with a boner costume could offend people.
Two years ago, an associate of a friend went to a Hallowe’en party dressed up as the World Trade Centre. He proceeded to spend the evening running around into walls and screaming.
I’m serious.
Just today I saw in the newspaper a Steve Irwin costume with a rubber stingray attached, the tail embedded in a bloody wound in the chest.
There were quite a few “couple” costumes of priest and altar boy a few years ago.
Nazis.
I knew a group of four guys that did a 9/11 theme. Two dressed as buildings with toy planes sticking out of them, one dressed as the pentagon with an airplane, and the last wore a piece of astroturn with broken plane parts glued to it.
One of my friends suggested dressing up as Terri Schiavo.
I am so going to hell for this, but a picture of a guy dressed as ‘Looty’ (scary looking black guy carrying a case of beer in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina) made me laugh. Basically he was a white guy in blackface carrying a case of beer. He might have had redneck plastic teef also.
There is something absolutely disgustingly funny to me about that image. Mostly the fact that he would actually have the balls to do that.
Two years ago? Hell, my co-worker went to a party in October 2001 dressed up as a twin tower with an airplane sticking out.
And if your part of the royal family you’ll probably have to apologize for it too.
Zombie Amish schoolgirls?
How many flavors of whup-ass did he collect in his goodie sack?
I saw the Steve Irwin costume in a Halloween store the other day. Of course it was called “adventure hunter” or some such but it was obvious what the real intention was. I didn’t stop to see if there was a stingray barb, though.
Something that I haven’t seen myself but was told about is a suicide bomber costume. Apparently it’s a shirt with explosives attached to it. My first reaction was “wow, that’s pretty tasteless”, but I don’t know, Halloween is about ghouls and monsters and what could be more frightening than that.
As to the comment about this being the one time women can shamelessly tart themselves up; amen. I wouldn’t call it offensive, but kind of pathetic. You can dress sexy any time you feel like it; why waste the one time that you can get away with something outrageous?
I don’t know if it’s so much tasteless as it is fucking stupid… How many dress-up suicide bombers have to be shot by trigger-happy sheriffs before they stop making those costumes? 
Good point! I didn’t even think of that.
Why not straddle the line? How about a painted-on nun’s habit? 
One year I dressed as a flasher - trench coat, cut-off trouser legs tied on above the knees, boxer shorts with a member protruding. Only the member sticking out from the shorts was a plastic nose.
On my head I wore a set of Groucho Marx-type glasses with the big bushy eyebrows, but instead having of the typical big nose, they had a penis in its place.
The most clever costume I saw was a guy with a CPR dummy (torso) strapped around his waist, pointing forward facing down. It was a female dummy, and he wore a skirt. A pair of pants stuffed to look like there were legs inside, with shoes at the bottom, hung down on either side. It looked for all the world like this fellow was being carried around by a woman who was bent over from the strain.
My cousin and his friends went as the Nun Mafia one year. Full habit, plus dark sunglasses, cigars, and huge plastic guns. Maybe not “offensive”, but it was great to watch people’s expressions change as the nuns turned around and became bearded men in sunglasses smoking giant stinky cigars.