My children, ages five and one, were attending Wizard World Chicago at the same time this particular cosplayer was doing her thing. Let’s be clear: I’m not a show-runner, and thank Rao for that. Is she bending the rules to the given extreme? Is a well-produced facsimile of a naked body part – aligned to some measure of a costume – an allowable choice of expression within the confines of a convention? And if you personally find something akin to the display of the naked human body to be unsettling or offensive, are your rights inherently more potent than that of the cosplayer? She clearly takes proper steps to ensure she’s meeting the criteria to cosplay by the rules. If convention attendees find her faux – décolletage to be too much so be it. As is her opinion, the human body can become a work of art as such, her costume (the effort clearly of many hours of construction and creation) is her craft. As she commented in the aforementioned post: she expects some of the reactions she gets in her guise. To her credit, she took the whole debacle in stride. Per her posting, she had gotten the proper clearances, but miscommunication amongst the staff of the convention center and the con itself led to her removal. This past weekend, a cosplay maven – with distinct permission to come in her much-worked-upon Silent Hill cosplay – was jeered and leered at by some in the crowd, and ultimately (and incorrectly) walked back to her hotel room to change. ‘Tis a consummationĭevoutly to be wish’d of the fans to see.įor those not playing along, let’s cut to the chase. The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks To diet (to fit in a form-fitting costume) – to sleep on the floor of your con hotel suite – Or to take arms against a sea of tsk-tsks, The slings and arrows of outrageous fans and parents Whether ’tis nobler in the mind of cosplayers to suffer To boob, or not to boob, that is the question: A short one act play, in response to this recent hubbub during the Wizard World Chicago Comic Con.

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