as an excuse to be a male "character"?

For me it was definitely plenty. Let's just say I was never a princess lol. Luckily my parents knew I was never going to want to be a princess so they let me choose whatever I wanted to be for Halloween and would help me with the costume. I did the whole superhero thing quite a few times, pirate, army guy, football player, punk rocker, and any male character that I was into at the time like: Indiana Jones, Han Solo, the main guy from that bad 80s show Airwolf, etc etc.

Also, if you're dressing up, what's your costume this year? I haven't decided on mine yet.

I've decided not to dress up this year and haven't for a few years now. Halloween isn't that big of a deal to me. In the past I've been "male" characters, but never really ever paid attention to gender too much. I was a snapple bottle for a few years as a kid.

Oohhhhhhh yeah, haha! Aladdin, Luke Skywalker, whatever caught my fancy. Halloween was always a great excuse I was never a princess. I was a witch once or twice, but it was more of a "Moooommmmmm, do I reaaallllly have to? Okay, fine, but, I'm cursing people..."

As far as this year? Sheldon, apparently, from... Big bang? I think? I'm not sure, really, I've never seen the show, but a friend of mine thinks it would be a great one for me. I was told to get a super hero t-shirt, slick back my hair, and that would be it, haha. So simplicity FTW!

I think once I used it as an exuse to have a beard, but generally I just love to dress up whatever its a ghoast or a chearleader im gonna be, so halloween is just an exuse to dress up for me in general.

I don't usually dress up, but a few years back when my hair was still really long, I went as Toki Wartooth from Metalocalypse.  It was really simple, all I had to do was draw on a mustache.

I didn't use it as an excuse because it just made sense that I would dress as, say, Puck from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" or whatever else I felt like.

Quote from: Sly on October 18, 2012, 06:11:27 PM
... I went as Toki Wartooth from Metalocalypse...

You're awesome.

I wish we celebrated Halloween here; I would love the chance to dress up and party and/or terrorise old people for lollies...

in 8th grade i went to school as a janitor. i wore a short haired wig, coveralls, and a moustache. everyone thought i was a new boy in school. it was awesome.

i just remembered that in 5th or 6th grade i went as a dead golfer. distinctly male dead golfer. and i was superman once when i was much younger. and once i went as a pimp.

when i was younger i literally asked my mom if i could be a boy for halloween. She said no so i was a pizza guy (for about 3 years) with a mullet and fake facial hair.
this year im being scarecrow from batman arkham asylum

For as many years as I can remember, I'd wear a fake mustache, a black suit, and this cheap velvet hat and cape set I'd picked up at Walgreens. I didn't Just wear it for halloween though. I loved it too much. Any time I was filmed, I would dress up as the "magician". Any project at school that required pictures of myself, I'd be the "magician."  It was well received by a lot of people, and I remember during highschool, I would wear it to go trick-or-treating. People thought I was a boy And they gave me treats- how awesome is that?

Every freaking year @_@. Even when I was too young to pick my own costume, my mom dressed me in boy's costumes. Because of her, I was Santa Claus for 3 years in a row xD. She thought it looked cute :'P. Wait, there was that one time when I was 6 when I decided I wanted to be a fairy princess. My brother was 4 and went as Satan. We looked awesome, so no regrets :'P. My mom was beyond weirded out that I wore a girl's costume that year o.o. She was less disturbed when I decided to be a serial killer next year XP.

I either went with gender neutral costumes, occasionally more feminine (pink power ranger when I was 5), or more masculine (army man).  It was a mix of things.

For a while I stopped dressing up.  Last year I didn't do anything, but this year so far I've worn a couples costume with my partner (we were batman and robin...little paper bats and robins safety pinned to our shirts).  I might wear a legit priest costume (actual clerical shirt, not a cheap halloween costume) if we go somewhere else.

very much when i was little. i got really pissed the year i wanted to be tarzan and my mom made me be jain and my brother got to be tarzan. this year im going to be rick grimes from the walking dead. although i doubt many people will see my costume, as im probably going to just get wasted with some friends on halloween.

Usually, though I was thinking of cross-dressing this year and going as a Japanese magical schoolgirl.  Only I've got this co-worker who's a socially inept perv (he follows people to bathrooms - at least if you use the women's, he won't follow you *in* like he does a couple of the men - and doesn't have good enough English skills to be properly told how freakish that is without using a fist) so I'm thinking regardless of what gender he thinks I am, it's a baaaaad idea...

Quote from: insideontheoutside on October 17, 2012, 10:06:38 PM
as an excuse to be a male "character"?

For me it was definitely plenty. Let's just say I was never a princess lol. Luckily my parents knew I was never going to want to be a princess so they let me choose whatever I wanted to be for Halloween and would help me with the costume. I did the whole superhero thing quite a few times, pirate, army guy, football player, punk rocker, and any male character that I was into at the time like: Indiana Jones, Han Solo, the main guy from that bad 80s show Airwolf, etc etc.

Also, if you're dressing up, what's your costume this year? I haven't decided on mine yet.

I'm glad I'm not alone! I definitely did that as a kid!!!!

When I was a kid, I went to anime conventions and used those costumes for Halloween as well. My first cosplay was a character named Miroku from the series InuYasha, who is a male monk...one who hits on all the ladies, oddly enough. I was in sixth grade. I didn't even realize that I was male at this point, though my entire life I'd gone through the whole, playing with boy's dolls, being the dad in "house", etc etc. I even had my hair cut to about an inch all the way around in 5th grade and I really never went back to having it long. My parents never cared too much, I think they had me pegged for a lesbian most of my life until I came out to them once I hit 18, which they were totally cool with despite the fact that they only call me by my birth name (luckily I don't live with them).

My costumes were always masculine.  I recall wanting to be the red power ranger several times when I was a little kid.  The first year I went as the red ranger I had two younger cousins that also dressed as power rangers.  My grandma made me a pink ranger costume but I refused to wear it... >__>  She ended up turning it into a costume for one of female cousins and making me a red power ranger costume like she did for my other two cousins that went as power rangers. 

After that I only remember dressing up as ghostface from scream from then on.  The last year I trick or treated I wore a ninja suit though.  It wasn't one of those crappy store bought costumes either.  My dad got it from Japan when he was in the navy.  =D 

This year I was going to dress up as a creepy scarecrow, but it was too cold outside.  I ended up just wearing my guy fawkes mask this year.