It seems from the responses I'm getting that most (clearly not all, though you're the first I've seen express this view on this thread) people think there's a difference between "playing at blackness" and dressing up as a specific person - so long as you don't use blackface, which has such an awful history that its…

My dad used to wear all manner of hideous clothes - short rugby shorts, short-sleeved button-up shirt, a flannel hat. I thought this dad looked positively dapper by comparison.

Personally, I didn't realize all those names were gender neutral. I thought scenario 6 was meant to describe two women and that scenario 8 was meant to describe two men.

Well it kind of sounds like you are saying I am - what? - pretending to be ignorant... why? Why would I do that?
If you read my actual question though - and perhaps I should have worded it like this instead of how I did word it - I was asking whether it was just the blackface that made what they did offensive (I don't…

I'm not European. I have literally never seen a person wear blackface and the first time I ever saw the term was on Jezebel.

Can we please make this the thread for well-intentioned but ignorant people to ask their naive questions?
Is there a way that it would be ok for white people to dress up as the Jackson Five? I would have thought there was a difference between dressing up as "random black person" and dressing up as particular people…

It's springtime and there's not one exposed clavicle in the whole show. Victorian indeed.
Sadly, as a busty lass I really do look Victorian - as in like Queen Victoria (and I don't mean Emily Blunt - I mean the barrel-chested matron old lady Victoria) if I wear anything high cut.
I shall go elsewhere for my high-end…

Interesting fact: in New Zealand, marriages between Maori women and white men are far more common than marriages between Maori men and white women. A demographer explained to me that women tend to "marry up" in terms of socioeconomic status, and since white men here are, on average, socioeconomically advantaged, it is…

When you can get past the styling, most of these clothes are very conventional. And rather nice.

Want to hear a crazier one? Dan Ariely randomly assigned people into three groups. All the people were given designer sunglasses to try - but one group was told they were real, one group was told they were counterfeit and one group wasn't told anything about their provenance. They wandered around with the glasses on…

Totally! And we can just stick nursing pads directly onto our clothes rather than having that pesky bra in the way.

This should be worn by the proprieter of a shop that sells crystals and pewter dragons.

I cry on stage sometimes and I just try to feel what my character is feeling. I'm a cryer in real life, so that probably helps.
But I expect she is under really strong lights and it might just be easier for her to stare at them for a bit til her eyes hurt and water. Either that or she imagines great tragedies - like…

HAAAAMMMERRRRRR!!!

The only woman I ever heard announce it as "I'm-pregnant-it-was-an-accident" - I'm 95% sure it wasn't an accident.

I wonder (and you don't need to answer) how long you used a copper IUD for. My first period after getting my IUD was terrible and I wanted it out immediately, but a nurse encouraged me to try another month and it was way better, and a few months down the track it's back to normal. I know heavy periods are a commonly…

Maybe you need to start eating more?

I must applaud your Grandma's choice of attire. My instructions are thus: give my organs to anyone who wants them, the rest of my body to science if science wants me, anything that's left goes in PAJAMAS - not some horrible stiff formal outfit and certainly no bra! And then do whatever is received wisdom of the day on…

Are we not meant to discuss these things in polite company? Woops.
One of my favorite plans is my auntie's. She wants an open casket with her body propped so she is sitting bolt upright with her eyes taped open. She says she wants to look at everyone to see that they are mourning her just right.