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Originally Posted by Munchkin03

Apparently I'm in the minority (ha ha ha), but I like theme parties. There's totally a way to do it and not be offensive about it. Some of the more successful ones I've attended include:

1. Wild West/Cowboy
2. Toga Party
3. 1920s: flapper/gangster
4. Moulin Rouge
5. Superheroes

Frankly, I don't understand the brouhaha over an Egyptian/Pharoah party, being as neither black people nor Alpha Phi Alpha own the rights to Egyptian iconography.

I like a theme party when it is a smaller group of people who are clever and I know won't create a problem. Problem defined as inappropriate or offensive, or unfunny. I've always been a fan of authors, characters (literature, film, television), television or music decade or genre, but my all time favorite was San Francisco neighborhood. One could easily do that in New York and be quite creative.

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

As an undergraduate I protested a mock wedding theme party - parodying a sacrament is just wrong.

If anyone has a Viking party I'd boycott if the default was horned helmets, not one exists in the archaeological record. What was found is all mainland Europe (not even Danish at that) and British Isles and pre or post dates the age of the Vikings. Chain mail was the norm, so no metal breastplates ladies, though in the Sagas a lot of ladies went topless or flashed in battle.

Barbarian would probably be a much better theme and can include Romans of the Western Empire. Even better, Romans and Goths then let people self interpret as flying buttresses, Germanic tribes, people who should not take make up tips from Robert Smith of The Cure, Poe or any of his characters, a couple as a Grant Wood painting, or perhaps the National Cathedral.