The Ray Rice children’s Halloween costume you won’t believe
By Kelly Wallace, CNN
updated 4:02 PM EDT, Mon October 27, 2014
(CNN) — There aren’t too many times when I’m speechless about what I consider an outrageous example of parenting. This is one of those times.
An Instagram photo surfaced over the weekend of a child wearing a Ray Rice costume and dragging a doll ostensibly meant to symbolize the wife of the embattled former NFL star, Janay Rice. (The person who posted the photo with the caption “Greatest costume ever” appears to have since taken down their Instagram account.)
As most of us sadly know by now from the surveillance video that has been seen around the world, Rice dragged his then-fiancee out of an elevator after knocking her out in February. And so a kids’ costume of Rice dragging his wife?
Are you kidding me?
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Is this Halloween costume offensive?
Thankfully, some parents across the country have the words I can’t seem to find.
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“Utterly disgusting!” is what Mike Heenan, a father of two young daughters and organizer of the SF Dads Group, called “the seemingly celebratory suggestion of domestic violence in dragging around a Janay Rice doll.”
“Not just insensitive. Idiotic! Dangerous! Disgraceful!” said Heenan, who is also the founder of the blog At-Home Dad Matters.
On Facebook, Alison Bucalo, a mom of two boys in Ridgewood, New Jersey, said she would never let her little guys wear something “so tasteless.”
“What’s the purpose? To be funny? To shock? To show zero class? What is the lesson here?” she asked.
This Ray Rice costume for kids is just the latest example of what seems to be a trend in wildly inappropriate children’s Halloween costumes, with selections ranging from meth dealers Walter White and Jesse Pinkman from TV’s “Breaking Bad” to a baby cigarette to serial killer Hannibal Lecter.
https://www.cnn.com/2014/10/27/living/ray-rice-childrens-halloween-costume-inappropriate-kids/
