hello!!! Is this insulting to you?

[jeany]

Ok... I don't know why... (maybe because shes a miserable person...), but MIL told me tonight that dressing up my DD6 as Mulan, (costume from Disney Store) for Halloween, with geisha style make up... is insulting to the Chinese community and that I "can't paint her face white" (like a geisha)...

Now I'm kinda freaking out... DD just happens to like Mulan... and there is a parade at school with costume judging so of course we'd add makeup and hair...

Is this insulting? Or is it "just a halloween costume"?

 

[Katzenfreund]

Geishas are Japanese, not Chinese.

 

[NavyRet]

She's your child, not your MIL's. Do what you want and if she has a problem with it, tell her to take it up with her son. I'm sure you know how to control your husband.

 

[kiwi1960]

OFFS...... MIL's should be shot on sight.

Its racist if you are making fun of the Japanese... if not, then you honour them with this.... if the intention is to honour them, then what is the problem.

Fact is, people are way to PC these days, but as far as your MIL goes... I reckon she is trying to dominate you.... tell her where to get off already.

And please... photos.... allow us to judge if she is like Mulan...