It was my first time dressing as a babe.
I went for nerd babe; the kind that would read a book.
A female friend was dressed as Adolf Hitler. She is a short Russian babe, so it was a funny sight. As you can see the Swastika is the other way around from the Nazi symbol. Despite this being an ancient vedic religious symbol it triggered several straight white people at the LGBTQ+ event. They were very worried that someone might be offended, and so they took offence on behalf of their imagined people taking offence.
It was funny at the beginning. At first we tried to discuss with the people how it was them "taking" offence. No offence was being "given". They couldn't see that it was just them though. I told them it was fair enough that they were offended, but that it didn't affect me or anyone else, it was inside of them. To me the swastika was an ancient vedic symbol, to them it was a trigger warning, blowing them out of their safe spaces. The LGBTQ+ people loved Hitler, but the straight white collective had to get offended just in case a WW2 survivor entered the club and then took offence. It was bizarre behaviour. People tried to tell them that it was a party, but they had been triggered and would become the biggest drama queens.
We refused to put the swastika away, but eventually we put it away because we weren't really interested in the PC people's outrage and desire to circle jerk and talk about nothing else, as if they had been waiting for something like this to fill their empty lives. Several hours later they were still talking about it and now were saying things like they were going to cut my friends head off and attack her. They sounded like ISIS. It made me realise the similiarities between ISIS and PC people; they both are driven by the desire to censor anyone they don't agree with by utilising violence or threats of violence.
Food for thought
What do you think Steemit? Is it okay to dress as Hitler? Is it okay to get physically/verbally violent when you get offended? Is modern fascism draped in anti-fascism? Am I a babe?
@RiskDebonair
Irish Writer, Poet, & Babe