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9/11 - Time To Make Light Of It?
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First off - it is too soon to try and 'make light' of a tragedy like this,but it begs the question, why would you want to 'make light' of it in the first place? ""The idea was to depict a modern-day horror that happened in our lifetime and was not intended as a joke." //" If it's not intended as a joke, why put on these constumes for a fancy dress party? By definition -...
11:22 Wed 06th Nov 2013
I should lay my cards on the line...I think 'No', it's way, WAY too soon, and in thunderingly bad taste.
But then again - didn't we read about the lads who dressed up dead airline pilots for a laugh at Halloween:
http:// www.wnd .com/20 13/10/s um-ting -wong-w ith-the se-hall oween-c ostumes /
At what point does it become funny?
But then again - didn't we read about the lads who dressed up dead airline pilots for a laugh at Halloween:
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At what point does it become funny?
I think being able to laugh about it is a useful step in recovering from trauma. Clearly, most Americans haven't got there yet (the outrage that they won shopping vouchers, too...) but someone has to be first.
I'm not saying it will ever be a subject for mainstream humour, any more than Pearl Harbor is. But those not directly affected, or those too young at the time, are entitled to take a more detached view of it.
I'm not saying it will ever be a subject for mainstream humour, any more than Pearl Harbor is. But those not directly affected, or those too young at the time, are entitled to take a more detached view of it.
People fancy dress as Nazis and no one bothers unless they are Royal Princes. Others dress as victims with knives or cleavers in their heads. If the intention is to portray horror, then dressing as the twin towers is quite clever. But it depends how it is done. If it is for laughs then that is clearly bad taste. If it is to remind people of modern day horrors then I think it is OK.
You can make jokes with reference to the holocaust; I once heard a Jewish friend, with reference to someone who'd upset his group, say "What do you want us to do? Offer her a shower?" That is about as close to joking about it as it is possible to get, without being grossly insensitive. And it is Jewish humour ,too; the hallmark is humour about adversity; but I could never get away with it, nor even try.
I remember going to a fancy dress party and two of the RAF guys turned up in silver foil with seaweed and the occasional starfish attached - they were the remains of the space shuttle crew. We all thought it was funny. Likewise the plane crash jokes that go around at work - they are a coping mechanism when it could be you. 9/11 was on another scale though and just too horrific IMO