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Sorry, Cosmopolitan. Dressing As Moana For Halloween Isn’t Offensive.

Emily Zanotti

Cosmopolitan, the magazine most famous for giving bizarre sex tips that are more creepy than romantic, is desperate to reclaim the social justice territory it lost to such intellectual publications as Teen Vogue, and now wants its readers to know that it’s no longer acceptable to dress your children up as multicultural cartoon characters.

According to REDBOOK Editors, dressing your daughter as the young female character from Disney’s Polynesian tale, Moana, is both “racially insensitive” and an example of “cultural appropriation,” because your child is most likely white, and Moana is a Pacific Islander.

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