I think the cover is lovely. She looks gorgeous. Haters gonna hate.

You are seriously upset with Mayer's wording for Katy?! Or was that sarcasm? Hard to tell...

Western civilisation has been waiting for someone to suggest that self-serving Jews have all the money. And now, in Kanye West, I think we've found that man.

*siiiigh* even when he is angry and shouting, that is one gorgeous, gorgeous dude...

What the actual fuck

Yes. This is exactly the type of discussion I want to be having. Problematic? Yes. But Katy Perry went on tour with that outfit, and from what I've read, while some Japanese people are not happy with this act, many really liked it. The way this article was framed was insanely disingenuous and problematic, as if all…

I was trying to give a little context as to why the response from actual Japanese people on twitter wasn't complete outrage. It's a normal-ish thing to see. Honestly, shouldn't we defer to people of the actual culture in situations like this? Otherwise it sounds like a bunch of us Americans are sitting around telling…

I really wish we would stop acting like humans have developed in cultural vacuums! From the dawn of humanity, when two groups of humans have met they have exchanged ideas, tools, art, etc (including clothes) I think it is actually more racist to insist that people should not use other ethnicities props. It divisive…

HOW is Katy Perry wearing an outfit "racist"???

rac·ist
ˈrāsist/
noun
noun: racist; plural noun: racists

1. a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
synonyms: racial bigot, racialist, xenophobe, chauvinist, supremacist

"he was exposed as a racist"
(racially) discriminatory,…

That's the thing with cultural appropriation: it offends those nominally appropriated far less than rich white westerners with too much time on their hands who throw fits to alleviate their own sense of guilt. The underlying impulse - to respect the Other - is a good one, but I have trouble taking it seriously as…

I'm calling 1-2-3-bullshit on this Katy Perry story.

WOW 1 Japanese feminist had a problem with it!! man, I'm glad that 1 Japanese feminist (on tumblr, the bastion of critical thought and social change *eyeroll*) spoke out on behalf of a nation of 127.6 million people.

It's not a history class, it's a live show. The only rule of a live performance is to entertain. Nothing else matters.

Was it actual Japanese people claiming it to be racist or was it just some shit-starting white person?

Sometimes I wonder if we are blowing things out of proportion so much that we no longer can understand proportionality. I thought Feministing did that with the whole Lorde's song being racist. And I think this approaches it, too.

Can we have a calm, rational discussion about cultural appropriation, where the lines…

But what do people in Japan think? "Everything about that performance was beautiful" wrote one Japanese Twitter user. "So cute," wrote another. "This makes me so happy," chimed in another.

As an Italian woman, I really can't understand why this is racist. Open a Chinese restaurant is racist if the chef/owner is white? Making pizza or sushi is cultural appropriation if the person is not Italian or Japanese? Are anime fans at comics conventions racists if they wear a kimono? If I see a beautiful sari in…

She's appropriating cats from internet culture!