Wow, I didn't even realize I could offend people by cosplaying a fictional character (I realize that sentence sounds incredibly insensitive to racism for some people, but I'm not trying to step on toes here). I've always associated cosplaying with escaping and just enjoying a fandom; doing it to celebrate a favorite character and just having fun with it. God I realize how it could be offensive, but when I see comments from people ganging up on a cosplayer and telling them to eat a bag of dicks, and just downgrading them, when the cosplayer themselves did not blatantly mean any disrespect. It's all just so horribly depressive and discouraging to me. I'm really very glad I stumbled upon this, because I had no idea this was even an issue.