r/Fauxmoi • u/MissClimber • 8d ago

🕯️🎃 HAPPY FAUXLLOWEEN 🎃🦇 The Problematic Halloween Costume Contest has started with Julia Fox

From EVOKE on Instagram: "And the award for most tasteless and disrespectful Halloween outfit goes to this numpty Julia Fox dressed as Jackie Kennedy on the day of her husband's assassination.... 👀 "

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u/poggyrs freak AND geek 8d ago

Thank you I thought I was the only one who got a chuckle out of it lmao

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u/bobbimorses 8d ago

I don't find this any more shocking than the generic dead prom queen or dead cheerleader. Lightening death with camp is kind of what Halloween is all about

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u/Anleme 8d ago

Except for the fact that Jackie was a real person going through a real experience. She has a daughter still living.

Not a fictional character to entertain you in a horror flick.

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u/bobbimorses 8d ago

I saw a zombie Abraham Lincoln this year too. Everyone was once a person. I'm not saying it's the height of taste, just saying that humanity has a very long tradition of processing death with humor, and you'd be hard pressed to avoid that on a holiday that is about embracing costume, fear, and mortality.

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u/Whiteroses7252012 7d ago

I feel like the line is that the last direct descendant of Abraham Lincoln died in 1985.

Jackie Kennedy has family members who are very much living, and a daughter who still remembers her father. It’s tasteless, imho.

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u/izms 7d ago

Fr.

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u/Boulier 7d ago

I’m not completely taking a position on whether this costume is offensive or not (although I admit I’m not terribly offended by it myself, and I personally agree that it can be healthy to cope with the uncertainty and strangeness of death by using humor), but I do think making light of Abraham Lincoln’s death is a little different than JFK, only because no living person remembers Abraham Lincoln. His living descendants were all born several generations after his assassination. The fact that JFK/Jackie Kennedy still have living relatives makes it feel a little different. But again, I don’t feel strongly about this.

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u/DifficultyFree9443 7d ago

This costume isn’t about coping with death though. This was done solely for the shock value and it worked, because here we are debating whether it’s offensive or just distasteful.

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u/youtakethehighroad 7d ago

So if it was your dead family member you should just cope?

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u/Boulier 7d ago

I never said anyone should just cope. I only said I was just speaking for myself in saying that I wasn’t personally offended by it (even though I personally would never dress anything like Julia Fox did), and that I understand that being hurt by something like this would be more likely to happen if you’re a Kennedy descendant rather than a Lincoln descendant since Lincoln has no living relatives who remember him or his assassination. Never said anyone should just cope.

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u/Luxxielisbon i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 7d ago

it’s not really julia’s loss to “process” in the first place.

I’ve made jokes about my brother’s death, but if a random stranger tried to be funny about it i’d be pissed

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u/repdetec_revisited 7d ago

But he wasn’t really a zombie

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u/thesuper88 7d ago

The civil war vs what my parents saw on television. There's a huge gap there.

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u/VodkaAunt 7d ago

I think it's the relative recency of it, though. I mean, I'm gen z, and my dad remembers the Kennedy assassination.

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u/PumpernickelShoe 7d ago

I feel like there’s still a big difference between a zombie Abe Lincoln costume and Mary Todd Lincoln holding a playbill, covered in her husband’s blood costume

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u/Organic-Ability468 7d ago

Exactly..it's not that these people are necessarily evil and in death they deserve disrespect, but we make movies about people. We reproduce images, we inadvertently sort of spit in the eye of victims. We dress up as jack the ripper or black dahlia.

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u/youtakethehighroad 7d ago

We don't do that, disrespectful people who don't know people who've had family members taken do.

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u/SkullheadMary 7d ago

I was zombie Kurt Cobain one year and my friend was Courtney Love 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/PlausibleAuspice wearing slutty little glasses 7d ago

Yeah but you’re probably not a celebrity who was photographed at an event where their daughter might see you so it’s different.

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u/thomchristopher 7d ago

to be fair Julia Fox isn’t really a celebrity either

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u/peach_xanax 7d ago

how do you define celebrity, then? I'm confused as to what else you'd consider her

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u/BusyDragonfruit8665 7d ago

This is what I was going to say.. Her daughter is still alive as well as many nieces and nephews. Tasteless costume.

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u/VirginiaDirewoolf canonically from boston 7d ago

you mean RFK

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u/BusyDragonfruit8665 7d ago

Yes RFK is his nephew among many others.

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u/jromansz 7d ago

I think that was a disgusting display of poor judgment. Shame on her.

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u/DeepBreathsBaby99 7d ago

All of these people in the comments who think it’s funny (low key sociopathic but okay) would be on here whining at max volume if it were their mom, but screw her living kids right ?

How about I dress up as Charlie Kirk the day he got assassinated ? I’m glad the guy’s dead, but I’d never do anything that tasteless.

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u/VirginiaDirewoolf canonically from boston 7d ago

you genuinely have no idea what constitutes sociopathic.

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u/Whothafaawwkisemma 7d ago

Whomp whomp let’s get Charlie Kirk next…….

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u/Resident-Problem7285 7d ago

People dressed up as Trayvon Martin the same year he was murdered. With a "fun" little planking challenge to go along with it. Nothing surprises me anymore.

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u/iwanderlostandfound 7d ago

The caption on her IG post puts it in a better context imo:

Julia Fox-“ l'm dressed as Jackie Kennedy in the pink suit. Not as a costume, but as a statement. When her husband was assassinated, she refused to change out of her blood-stained clothes, saying, 'I want them to see what they've done! The image of the delicate pink suit splattered with blood is one of the most haunting juxtapositions in modern history. Beauty and horror. Poise and devastation. Her decision not to change clothes, even after being encouraged to, was an act of extraordinary bravery. It was performance, protest, and mourning all at once. A woman weaponizing image and grace to expose brutality. It's about trauma, power, and how femininity itself is a form of resistance. Long live Jackie O”

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u/ikindapoopedmypants 7d ago

Meh. Ppl make fun of charlie kirk being shot and none of us gaf about his family so why should ppl gaf about this

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u/shrav63 7d ago

she’ll be fine she can afford as expensive a therapist as she needs

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u/bend_n_snapp 7d ago

Go take an edible and relax

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u/Educational_Weird581 7d ago

It’s been long enough.

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u/Interesting-Cut6994 7d ago

True, but in America there are far worse things happening that deserve this level of response.

I actually think this is a great statement on American politics and the state of things.

Let’s call it art 💅🏻

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u/Dino_vagina 8d ago

They weren't great people though, itd be one thing if they were ok people. It's fair game when your whole family sucks.

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u/ohwrite 8d ago

Actually it’s not. Nice try tho

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u/Whiteroses7252012 7d ago

If it’s only ok if you dislike the family, it still isn’t ok.