The controversial costume that outraged moms, made boy happy

If he was a grown man and dressed up like this, say during college, at a party, what-have-you, no one would care. This might be nerve racking as a parent or odd to a spectator but if it is a one off who cares, if it is a pattern good for the kid knowing who he is early. Although if it is a one off maybe the parent should have helped the child avoid a needlessly painful situation...

I wanted to play football when I was little, but the township wouldn't let me. It was fine with the 70's lb coach, because that coach was my Dad! And he knew I could do it. I played king of the mountain on cow manure, and grew up just fine. Please let these kids do what they want, or they will have a lifetime of resentment. P.S. The school's would never let me do the boy's version of Presidential Fitness. Reduced down to chin-ups, super lame.

Seriously? This is a child! If anyone were to try to dis my daughter about wanting to grow up to be on WWE I'd have to show them a thing or two about where she gets some of her aggression from. She likes to fish AND loves Halloween for the makeup. She gets to do both without much criticism because she's a girl. Now if I had a boy, I'd expect the same. Those other mothers need to back off for a couple reasons- 1. Um DUH Halloween!; 2. None of their business; 3. Which country do THEY live in cuz I'm from America the home of the FREE; and 4. Just plain rude/disrespectful to think that they're in a position to be judgemental towards anyone that includes a young boy that for whatever reason wanted to dress like a female "mystery solver"!

I dressed up as a girl for Halloween once, and I've seen plenty other guys do the same. It's funny, OK?

I find it wrong that everyone wants to label a four year old's sexuality. He's 4, he shouldn't be thought of as a sexual being until at least the onset of puberty.. Not to say that there shouldn't be sex education before that point, but he's a child- not a representative of the gay community. The mom said her job is to mature him to a good person, not implying her son was/is gay. He has years to figure that out. What's important is that he should be a child. He might admire daphne, but I admired shaggy and if I'd wanted to be him, no one would have batted an eye. The point isn't the kid's sexuality, it's the double standard and a kid's right to be an innocent kid even though the adult world wants to label it when it's most likely nothing. it's just a kid expressing they like something,

ummm whats the big deal? he just wanted to dress up as a character that he likes.... so what?

Love how the teacher is thanking "god" that he wasn't in her kindergarten class. "god" has nothing to do with school. And I would have #$%$ so much.

If a grown man wore the same costume and let's just say, you could see a bulge coming from beneath the dress, people would say it might be inappropriate. Everyone knows that men sometimes have trouble controlling what goes on 'down there' when they get aroused. If that were to happen to a man wearing a dress, people would call him a pervert. A male is a male no matter what age, so why is it okay for a boy to wear that and a grown man would be looked down on?

I feel the same way that you do, and I have two boys and a girl. My six year old wanted his nails painted because he saw myself and my two girlfriends painting our nails. I painted his nails purple sparkles and he loved it.

people get over it. it is just a costume. he is just having fun

I think he's adorable and SHAME on those nay-saying mothers for perpetuating stereotypes and discrimination!

Way to go! Stand up for your son every chance you get.. I bet those moms didnt even stop to think what effect the words they were saying had on that little boy.. If someone had something to say about my son.. id laugh and tell them to get over it.. If they dont like it they can turn around and not look at him.. go home and complain about it to someone else but dont say anything infront of my kid.

I agree. Society has put so many constraints on what people can and can't do based upon their gender, race, sexual orientation, and other such factors they have no control over. People should do what makes them happy, not what society says is "socially appropriate".

If I had a son, I'd want him to dress up cute for Halloween too. Kids admire and will want to be their fave characters, so let the boy have his crush on Daphne.

love love this mother this is the type of parent I want to surround our newest soon to be addition with... we need more mom's like you in the world! If there were we could finally put an end to the allowance of bullying.... Thanks for making a stand and not backing down!

I met my boyfriend at a high school dance . I was dressed as a sailor, he was dressed as a women. end of story.

Why is this becoming a "gay" rights discussion. This article has nothing to do with gay people. In fact, out of the 379 words there is only one word that implies homosexuality (0.3% of the words).

The boy should be allowed to express his self whichever way he feels appropriate, regardless of his sexuality or lack thereof.

Everyone in our society should be granted the right to full self-expression, tolerance and acceptance. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Can we all just try and stop judging each other and live lives that we can find meaning in? Maybe then we can make the world we live in a better place.

I don't dressing as Daphne might just make him grow up to be a girl... I dressed as Scooby Doo at his age and everyone says I grew up to be a real bit*h! XDD

The double standard exists because society at large realizes it is not a desirable thing to be a woman, period.

The mothers flipping out on this need to just shut up and relax, mainly because Halloween is supposed to be about having fun. Sure, it's unusual for a little boy to dress up like that, or considered out of the shallow social norms, but it was what he wanted, because that's his favorite character, and we should be allowed to dress how we want on that day. I remember for spirit week once this guy wore a dress, but we didn't bully him for it, like those unfit mothers did. We all had fun, because it was a FUN week, where our creativity was allowed to flow, and we were allowed to think for ourselves and dress up how we wanted -as long as it was within reason and none of us were in skimpy revealing clothing-.
It makes me cringe to think how those fail mothers want to take the fun part out of Halloween by forcing their sexist values upon the poor boy and his mother.
Let Halloween stay the way it should be for kids by letting them dress HOW THEY WANT.