Why do basic fraus love Halloween so much?

The biggest Halloween fanatics I know are all gay men over 40.

Who gives a crap about basic fraus and their passions? Besides pathetic OP, who has a thousand stupid questions.

It’s not a frau thing, you freaking dumbass

It’s a millennial thing

Millennials love Halloween

You wanna know why?

You remember this scene from ET? Swarms of unaccompanied children trick or treating in suburban neighborhoods?

THIS WORLD NO LONGER EXISTS.

They are MOURNING the loss of the innocence of their childhood, that they cannot pass down to their own children.

It adds some excitement to their drab, dull lives.

I don’t think OP could stomach the Halloween section at Home Depot, and they don’t carry fainting couches

R5: triggered frau who was so upset she SHATTERED her mug

You know r4 you may be on to something.

Women have the nesting instinct and a desire to be cozy all the time. But there’s nothing out there to be terrified of.

(Yes, i know of course there is, especially these days, but you know what I mean.)

Manageable spookiness adds some excitement that reaffirms their love of safety. Great point.

It's all about the children : getting their costumes ready, decorating the house, buying all the candy, and taking them out to the neighbors to fulfill the ritual that they did and their mothers did.

Because you can pretend to be more interesting and more uninhibited for a day or during the parties in this season. There's candy. There's costumes. There's being allowed to be slutty for no reason.

Hell, everyone should love those things.

Fundies consider Halloween satanic. So bring on the Halloweening!

Halloween is harmless fun. I think my partner and I decorate more for Halloween than any other holiday.

My local Costco has Christmas stuff out already R5. The Halloween stuff has already been shoved into a corner of the store. It is kind of mind boggling.

It’s the only apolitical holiday we get - no jebus, no faux giving of thanks, just thrills, chills, cocaine, and booze.

Even fugly grotesques can get their dicks wet!

There is nothing fun about All Hallow’s Eve. It’s dark sided. I wish people, especially children, would stop messing with it.

Halloween is like gay Christmas. It's subversive (see R10) and encourages role-play and costumes. For adults the emphasis is usually on "sexy" costumes. As a children's event, trick-or-treating starting not in the morning or afternoon but the evening, is the equivalent of clubbing until 3am.

Everything is not always about "fraus."

Reading comprehension issues? Where did I say only fraus like it? I asked why fraus like it so much FFS.

FFS r3 ET was a Gen X thing, not a Millennial thing. People who were children in 1982 were born in the 1970s.

OP is very angry his thread isn't going how he thought it would.

R18 just finished her Spooktober greeting cards, and popped on to post that before putting the kiddos to bed.

[Quote] It’s a millennial thing

This definitely wins the “Most Retarded Statement of the Day” award — and on DL, that’s no mean achievement!

I don’t mind it. I don’t have to buy gifts and I don’t give out candy so it’s relatively stress free. Plus, my life is kinda crappy right now so I’m trying to find joy wherever I can goddammit. TO HELL.

A gay men criticizing others for loving Halloween.

You’re a true piece of shit, OP.

They love it because the littles enjoy it.

They like it because their kids do. Just assuming.

They love wasting money on pointless knick knacks and plastic junk made in Vietnam or China.

I love Halloween and keep my place decorated all year but not that cutesy stuff like in the picture at op. I try to buy higher end stuff. I also have a lot of occult things that are not specific to Halloween. For me it comes from a lifelong fascination with the supernatural. Since I was 3 or four I’ve been interested in it and it’s never gone away. I feel good being around “spooky” stuff

Histrionic pageantry, safe terror.

Like mailing selfies to serial killers behind bars

I loathe Halloween with my entire being.

R3 A lot of millennials don’t have children!

No one is mourning anything, we just still enjoy being kids. Video games, super hero movies, Halloween and horror, Disney, etc.

I never understood it. It’s become a major holiday in my lifetime. We ran around in flammable costumes, plastic masks, and a paper bag if we were lucky.

I only do Christmas.

Market Basket and Shaw’s already have eggnog in the dairy aisle. It may have appeared in mid September.

You must understand that the poor girls have been deprived of cutesy holiday frivolity since the Fourth of July. Back to School, Labor Day, Columbus and/or Indigenous Peoples Day and Hispanic Heritage Month don’t cut it. Socially-sanctioned attention seeking through dress, an abundance of available sweets and an excuse for having an office party also add to Halloween’s growing allure and popularity among American fraus.

OP- FRAUS by definition are basic- meaning they are very mainstream and average.

[quote]Women have the nesting instinct and a desire to be cozy all the time.

🙄 Sure, Jan.

Thanks for the insights, GermanGayGuy/defacto/teacake/kittydyke.

[Quote] They love it because the littles enjoy it.

Do us a favor.

It's Fall, Y'all

The gayen are just idiotic about Halloween as the frauen.

They never grew up. The ones I know who are over the top about Halloween also love Disney and Hello Kitty. They're nearing 40 and still act like they're little girls. They are not too dissimilar from the "Live, Laugh, Love" crowd.

I’m a Gen X gay dad and guilty as charged — we do it up over here in the NJ suburbs! Bringing all the lawn decor up from the basement this coming weekend.

Our neighborhood is a local trick or treat destination. Hordes and hordes of excited kids show up. Last year we had 800+ pieces of candy and we ran out.

I have a few things to apologize for in this lifetime… but loving Halloween is not one of them.

p.s. I can’t speak for all of the pro-Halloween gays, but (a) we are legion and (b) for me there’s a line to it from my years as a nerdy and enthusiastic theatre kid and drama-club teen. Set design, costumes, getting into character, getting an audience reaction, the whole thing.

Give me a basic Halloween frau over a Hallmark Xmas frau every damn day of the week.

[quote] Does it have something to do with sexual excitement over being in peril?

Kind of, but not really. More women than men watch horror movies and read crime novels.

It’s something to do with watching the potential harm of the everyday dramatised and ratcheted up to the nth degree. Clarice Starling, Ellen Ripley, Laurie Strode, Buffy Summers and Miss Marple give them a way to parse their fears.

And in my experience it’s also gays (and lesbians) as well as women who love Halloween. They all know more about putting on armour and facing a hostile world.

All kinds of people like Halloween, but fraus in particular are suckers for marketing and there's all kinds of fun crap to buy, from decorations to candy and costumes.

I'm 62, male, and I love Halloween.

One, I love October and fall and the weather.

Two, Halloween decorations are fun and cute. I mainly collect vintage Halloween decor or at least stuff that looks vintage.

I don't actually "do" Halloween anymore meaning go out to "party" but I'm perfectly happy at home eating chowders and apple cake and watching Poirot for the 800th time and enjoying my candles and "spooky" decor.

I also enjoy putting up Xmas decor, but not as much as Halloween. Xmas has...baggage attached to it.

Oh, and I'm not particularly fond of Disney (always preferred Looney Tunes to the dumb mouse) and Hello Kitty is too twee for me, though I like the owl character. I seldom act like a little girl though I do giggle if I'm stoned.

I loathe "live, laugh, love". I hate pretty much all design shit after 1980. If I have cute shit, it's cute crap from the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s...some 70s but shit started getting real crappo in the 70s.

I suspect most of the cunts on here who hate people who like Halloween or Xmas are dreary types with bland houses featuring a lot of bare surfaces and grey. Modern construction. Shitty dry wall walls. You have a Roomba. If you have a dog, it's an annoying dog.

You wear "slacks" and enjoy buffets.

And while I'm on the subject, what's with little children and their love of spookiness and Halloween? Do they want to get railed by a goblin?

OP is unaware that the real Halloween fraus like my aunt started "spooky season" a month ago.

I remember asking few years ago I was a little freaked out when I saw the first Halloween yard decorations on September 1 when school hadn't even started in tge district.

R42 a leftover plot device from Modern Family.

[quote]There is nothing fun about All Hallow’s Eve. It’s dark sided. I wish people, especially children, would stop messing with it.

Hi, Marguerite!

Religious frauen don’t like Halloween because it’s “demonic.”

But really, it’s just the best holiday, OP.

With Stranger Things returning, id love to go nuts with a themed decoration like these people did, including the incredible floating Max.

I understand going all out for Halloween when your children/nieces/nephews/friend's kids are little, but beyond that it's a bit much.

It was never my favourite holiday; I stopped doing the costume thing and trick or treating when I was 10. It gets dark early here and it always rained. Soggy costume time. :-/

I guess if you still have a neighborhood crawling with trick or treaters I can see decorating. There is not that going on where I live.

[Quote] OP is unaware that the real Halloween fraus like my aunt started "spooky season" a month ago.

No, OP is all too aware of that.

Someone observed to the DL in another thread that purple has become a Halloween color. I am for the classic orange and black.

why do basic gays love halloween so much?

Same r57

Yeah, orange and black equals Halloween.

Though “spooky season” doesn’t bother me the way December does, neither do I get it. I don’t have children, of course. I’m old enough that I can remember the time before Halloween became a holiday for all ages, and also when it only lasted one day, maybe two.

Just coincidentally, my least favorite color is, and always has been, orange.

Insta fraus have been spray painting Amazon foam pumpkins in their “spooky shade” for about a month in between taking sips of pumpkin spice latte from their darling ghost glow beaker.

Do they still sell color-coded pumpkins for the differently abled children?