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I just realized that I typed a whole two sentences in words that would have zero meaning for my mother when she was my age.

when i was 14 i had surgery and was couch relegated. we didn't have real television, but i DID have a newly minted VHS of the fugitive. i have probably watched it 1,000 times, no joke. straight memorized it. so whenever i see someone doing tommy lee jones' warehouse farmhouse henhouse outhouse and doghouse speech and

Dear Author,
I'm not sure of your orientation, but if you aren't part of the LGBT community are you disingenuous for writing this article? Think hard about it.

Read the lyrics to Same Love. This entire Jezebel article is just... wrong. Macklemore didn't co-opt any gay experience, never claimed he wrote an anthem, etc. It's all Beusman misinterpreting or flat out making things up. :|

The message I get from this is that if you're a fairly privileged straight white dude, you aren't allowed to champion any causes ever, because "you just don't get it!" This is so dumb, and is pretty much the problem with the world, that we assume people should only care about things that hurt them directly, because

"Exploiting" It certainly couldn't have anything to do with his feelings and experiences in his life, huh?

Can't anybody do anything good anymore? It's either suspicious, or it's just not good enough.

I, for one, enjoyed the story. Especially the part where you told me, a middle-class white guy, how I feel about homeless people.

Okay, let's get upset about women getting paid less in every sport. But first, let's think about why they get paid less: nobody's watching. And that probably includes YOU. When's the last time you attended a WNBA game? Who was the league MVP last year? Ever watched women's golf on TV? Can you name any women

How does viciously beating homeless people give Europe a point?

Rich White girls don't like being sexually harassed by homeless people. Polish racists are quick to aggression. News at 11.

Oh come on. I'm no Thicke fan but to say that he was somehow in charge of that shitshow is just ridiculous. I think Miley is a powerful enough young woman to get what she wants, and to imply that she was just playing the "young near-naked woman" in a Thicke-controlled clusterfuck is just insulting to her.

She

So based on my association by skin color and, admittedly, the fact that I benefit from systemic inequality (and am very much aware of and sensitive to it), I have no right to be offended that I get lumped in with the Miley Cyruses of the world?

Really, genuinely seeking clarity on why oh WHITE PEOPLE is ok.

You're reading my posts everyday!? Really!?

I love that - "despite being a woman". Hey, sorry about that experience of sexual violence, male patriarchy, and 72 cents on the dollar, but at least you're white!"

This discussion, of cultural appropriation and the flaunting of gross ignorance, is rich and important. Oh white people is noxious.

You're right. I'm a fucking barbie doll who has no basis for an opinion because I'm so goddamn WHITE. Excuse me while I go jump off a fucking bridge because I am nothing but a cultural vacuum, have never faced a challenge in my life and am, in a nutshell, worthless.

Because "white culture" doesn't involve any nuance,

White people don't have culture? Do you not interact with any white people? Listen, I dig this piece overall, but I do not dig the resulting attacks on all that is white. Just because there are things dominant and oppressive about whiteness doesn't mean you get to write off white history and culture writ large. I

I like you, Dodai Stewart, but I can't support you this time. You can't have this one both ways: either pop music created by non-dominant cultures is open to enjoyment and emulation by people outside that culture, or it is off limits to anyone not from that background and we therefor can't complain about limited sales

"Miley seems to delight in dancing much like these strippers do: Twerking, popping the ass, bending at the waist and shaking her rump in the air. Fun. But basically, she, as a rich white woman, is "playing" at being a minority specifically from a lower socio-economic level."