Asda and Tesco remove Halloween Costumes from shelves

B.A._Baracus

Slow news day? :pac:

http://news.sky.com/story/1146563/mental-costumes-asda-and-tesco-apologise

Supermarket chains Asda and Tesco have withdrawn Halloween costumes from sale following a barrage of criticism.
Asda's "mental patient fancy dress costume", which is designed to look like a blood-splattered straitjacket, was on sale for £20 through the supermarket's clothing arm George.
Many people took to Twitter to express their disgust at the description, including former footballer Stan Collymore - who has suffered well-documented problems with depression.
He wrote: "Dear ASDA, nice stereotype of "Mental patients". Something you'd expect from the ###. A f****** joke".
"Do you actually realise how many people are hanging themselves because of being frightened of the stigma? Wording is CLEAR. MENTAL PATIENT." ... **CLICK STORY TO READ MORE**

Basically if you are too lazy to read the above... Asda sells "Mental Patient" halloween costume. people go nuts. They say sorry. While in the mean time Tesco remove their "Psycho Ward" costume after what happened to Asda.

So what do you think? pc gone mad? or totally insensitive from both companies?


Personally sounds like pc gone mad to me (The irony knowing the costumes :pac:) Neither costume insults anyone. Both are just sterotypes. Like an evil dentist costume - does that mean every dentist around the world should feel insulted? .... no.

darkpagandeath

yeah mental patients have never been associated with this time of year

The Backwards Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq6pekM6sZQ

Corkfeen

darkpagandeath wrote: »

yeah mental patients have never been associated with this time of year

But the question is, should we continue to perpetuate myths about psychiatric wards that will just maintain the stigma that surrounds mental health problems or people who have even been in such a ward. It must be very difficult from their POV.

dodderangler

Lazy cnuts
Why don't people just make their own costumes instead of buying them.
Bought costumes aren't even close to homemade costumes.

biko

I'll let you know in October..

Frosty McSnowballs

Is this why they got rid of Super Crazy Prices?

Can we also get rid of crazy glue?

Also, lol @ Stan Collymore "taking the high road"....has he forgotten that he is a woman beating, dogging pervert?

FreshKnickers

I'll do my bit. At the fancy dress party I'm going to this year I'll just dress as meself and when people day "Ah, Knickers, why aren't you wearing a costume? It's a costume party, are ye thick or what?" I'll tell 'em "Oh but I am wearing a costume. I am in the guise of 'person with mental illness'. For you see, a person with mental illness appears no different."

Should make sure I don't get asked back next year.

Frosty McSnowballs

dodderangler wrote: »

Lazy cnuts
Why don't people just make their own costumes instead of buying them.
Bought costumes aren't even close to homemade costumes.

Have you even tried to make a Chewbacca costume?

Staff Infection

I'd have no problem if I was at a fancy dress party and somebody's costume was a strait jacket. However, I do understand the argument that mental illness is stigmatized and these costumes don't help matters.
If someone wished to dress as Hanibal Lecter they could wear the strait jacket, muzzle thingy etc and nobody would bat an eyelid. I think most people who were "outraged" online were just joining a mob mentality like with the abercrombie and fitch thing a few months ago. "Oh someone was offended lets side with them" kind of facebook nonsense.

Realistically I think there is a huge difference between someone who has a genuine mental illness and the character portrayed by the costumes. I also think anyone who sees the costumes would understand this. Its parody and exaggerated with a sinister edge to make it scary as its for Halloween, nobody actually believes that anyone with a mental illness requires a strait jacket. Its a costume why do people choose to be offended by it?

darkpagandeath

happy holydays ....

Son Of A Vidic

Many people took to Twitter to express their disgust at the description, including former footballer Stan Collymore - who has suffered well-documented problems with depression.

I never knew Collymore had well documented problems with depression? I just thought he had well documented problems with kicking women in the head.

Wabbit Ears

goddammit, why oh why do we traipse around on tippytoes about every bloody thing where someone has it difficult. I suffered from depression for years and one thing that thought me is that taking everything so seriously is a really unhealthy thing to do. Can these PC tw@ts not see the irony here?

Archeron

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Have you even tried to make a Chewbacca costume?

Roll around in glue and have somebody shoot the contents of a dog owners Hoover bag at you.

UCDVet

dodderangler wrote: »

Lazy cnuts
Why don't people just make their own costumes instead of buying them.
Bought costumes aren't even close to homemade costumes.

I went a costume-only party; but was too cheap to make one.

I took off my shirt (I'm a guy, so it's okay) and knocked on the door. Some girl answered and told me, 'Ummmmm - you need a costume!' and I said, 'What do you mean? I'm a PREMATURE EJACULATION!'

She looked at me incredulously for a few seconds....then I explained, 'See? I just came in my pants'

lkionm

Wabbit Ears wrote: »

goddammit, why oh why do we traipse around on tippytoes about every bloody thing where someone has it difficult. I suffered from depression for years and one thing that thought me is that taking everything so seriously is a really unhealthy thing to do. Can these PC tw@ts not see the irony here?

Most people like to get offended for other people. Surprise surprise

ElvisChrist6

People tip-toeing around mental illness without any sense of humour about it is, I think, partly why it's so difficult to talk about. It becomes a "Holy ****, stop the presses" issue, rather than a normal thing that probably a majority of people go through that should be much easier to discuss.

Also, obviously that's an exaggeration of a mental patient (which, I may add, is not equivalent to someone with mental illness), but sure we all know nurses aren't nearly as sexily dressed as the ones on Hallowe'en. It's just a laugh.

AndonHandon

Some mental illnesses do make people psychotic crazy which can be scary. At Halloween I want to scare people.

canadianwoman

UCDVet wrote: »

I went a costume-only party; but was too cheap to make one.

I took off my shirt (I'm a guy, so it's okay) and knocked on the door. Some girl answered and told me, 'Ummmmm - you need a costume!' and I said, 'What do you mean? I'm a PREMATURE EJACULATION!'

She looked at me incredulously for a few seconds....then I explained, 'See? I just came in my pants'

I heard of a guy who pinned 50 different paint colour samples (all grey) to himself and went as 50 shades of grey. He won best costume later that evening.

Savoir.Faire

I like to throw on a long jacket, paste a fake beard onto my massive chin, put on a pair of oversized glasses and speak in a Belfast accent.

Dressing up as Gerry Adams scares the shyte out of people in Coppers come Halloween night.

peewee_44

Tesco should remove all there costumes on the ground they are rubbish and tear the moment you put on