No costumes in theaters. Really?

[Stinky The Clown]

He was dressed in body armor.

Some of his *victims* were maybe dressed as Batman.

But in our collective wisdom, we're banning costumes in theaters.

[rug]

1. No more Rocky Horror Show.

[rocktivity]

12. I was in college when I first saw the Rocky Horror Picture Show

Having grown up in New York City, I'd seen ads for it in the Village Voice, but that's all I knew about it. So I couldn't understand why everyone was acting as though it were a campus holiday. And I couldn't understand why the holiday seemed to be Halloween! I get to the theater, and people on line were wearing costumes and carrying signs -- FOR A MOVIE??? And when it actually got started, it got even worse!

People were chanting, waving, standing up and sitting down, talking back to the screen, dancing in the aisles! I suppose I should have been shocked and outraged by all the decadent cross-dressing and homosexuality going on, but I was too busy wondering if someone had put LSD in the local water supply. Fortunately, the movie's rock and roll sensibility broke through my full-bore "WTF?" mode, and since then, I haven't spent a Halloween without it!

rocktivity

[Booster]

2. Yeah, you would think their 1st rule would be no guns in theaters.

[rocktivity]

11. And that their second rule would be to have the emergency exit doors guarded or alarmed

so they'd know when people are using them when they shouldn't be.

And that their third rule would be to have surveillance cameras -- if one had been covering the exit doors or the parking lots, Holmes never would have made it back into the theater.

But it's banning costumes that will make moviegoers safer -- with the added advantage of not cutting into the theater's profit margins.


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[frazzled]

3. Do you perhaps ...

have something more important to worry about than not being able to wear tights and funny masks to a movie?

Geez, grow up, peeples.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Explain to me how this policy makes any sense?

Over reaction more like it.

[Stinky The Clown]

10. I guess I could be worried that your home site is down.

[Posteritatis]

14. I always worry about idiotic, unproductive rules based on split-second kneejerks. (nt)

[OhioChick]

4. And if the shooter were in a Batman costume and had gotten away..

How would anyone have given a description?

[Fawke Em]

9. The shooter was dressed as The Joker in Police SWAT.

I'd rather have The Joker than Police SWAT.

[white_wolf]

5. Banning costums won't solve this problem.

Here is something that might help the problem and wouldn't be hard to do. Install alarms that go off whenever the emergency exit doors are opened from either side. If they did that, the killer wouldn't have been able to get in with his guns.

[backscatter712]

7. It's a completely idiotic idea.

Nobody here or elsewhere has offered one iota of proof that this would have the slightest effect on violence.

All it does is unfairly demonize and target people who like to dress up and wear costumes. It's the usual othering of anyone who's slightly different. Just like how companies, cops and schools started persecuting kids who wear trenchcoats after the Columbine shooting.

And I find it disgusting that people, here on DU, actually think this is a good idea.

[Fawke Em]

8. How the hell can I do the Time Warp without a maid's outfit.

Shit.

[FarLeftFist]

13. I doubt he entered the theater in that clothing. He changed somewhere, came in through

emergency exit.

[coalition_unwilling]

15. Let's bring back sumptuary laws while we're at it. That should fix

all our problems.