I Am Not a Costume!

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Originally Posted by Kevin

I was responding to someone who said any alteration by makeup to another natural color of the skin was offensive to her.



Okay, so how 'bout this then:


(Arsenio Hall)

Thanks for checking in almost two years after my post, but I think you'll see that I said problematic rather than offensive, which are neither denotatively nor connotatively the same.

Now that I reread your response to me, I'm not sure what your point is. My comment was that using makeup to change your skin color is problematic. I made no conditions on that statement other than to throw out primary colors such as one might do to support a team or to be a Smurf. (in other words, colors that don't appear in nature on skin.) I didn't say that it only applied to certain people. There are problems with it. That's all I said.