Cosplay - Fetish or Fun?

I've just seen a discussion on a crossplay site about whether a costume counts as crossplay. The argument is that because the character crossdresses in the costume in the game you wearing a copy of it means you're not crossplaying. You're cosplaying a man in a harem costume, not a woman and so it's not crossplay  🤔

But surely that argument only holds water if the original character was, indeed, a man in a harem costume? (I.e. the scene with Charles Hawtrey in Carry on up the Khyber... if memory serves)

MJ

...the original character was, indeed, a man in a harem costume?

The original character was exactly that. People are being told to calm down 😊

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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNF3qEtXqDU
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...the original character was, indeed, a man in a harem costume?

The original character was exactly that. People are being told to calm down 😊

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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNF3qEtXqDU
]TLoZ Breath of the Wild - Link Wearing Girl Clothes - YouTube[/url]

Keep Calm and Carry on Cosplaying  😁

Charles Hawtrey in Carry on up the Khyber

Private Widdle and The Devils in Skirts v Bungdit Din* if I recall 😊

Edit, 
*and his tribe the Burpas, I'd forgotten them.

 😊

Charles Hawtrey in Carry on up the Khyber

Private Widdle and The Devils in Skirts v Bungdit Din if I recall 😊

Well done - have a gold star and house points  😁

Not, I suspect, a movie that could be made now - at least not in the way it was. I watched it again a few months ago, wincing at a few parts, but thought it less offensive than much that is considered acceptable in the mainstream today. 

Now, would a woman playing Mrs Doubtfire be acceptable as Cosplay or is there an underlying trend that it's only wrong if the player is a man? 

...and what if the character was a declared 'non-binary'?


Hmm, maybe we shouldn't go down that particular road.....


MJ

This gave me a WTF moment...
Your Face Sounds Familiar: Poland ‘surprised’ by blackface criticism | Metro News

There are at least two ghastly drag Chers on there too...I'll put a link on the other thread if I can re-find them.

[Like Ra]

This gave me a WTF moment...

...same...

We even have a thread for this 😁

I'm not in cosplay, but that is really confusing.

I'm not in cosplay, but that is really confusing.

If you're cosplaying a man who's cross-dressed as a woman you're cosplaying the man, not the woman he's cross-dressed as and as such you're not crossplaying...I think that's how it works. 😊

But you could always claim you're cross-playing the woman the man was dressed as (if she's in the original game) in which case you would be crossplaying...lol

Re 'blackface'...

We even have a thread for this 😁

Can you link, I can't find it?