Except maybe from a different angle, accusations of rape have been used by white and colonial society to keep men of colour in their place. Passage to India anyone?

Sooo, I am going to put something out their, in good faith. If anyone has any thoughts please reply, but please respond in good faith.

Why do people share stories of buying porn and viagra on parenting message boards?

My only assertion is that Frida, the daughter of a German immigrant, raised in impeccably elite and upper class surroundings actively cultivated a way of dress and speech normally associated with a different class. I made this point in response to the original articles critique of Gwen Stefani "appropriating" Frida's…

You're not crazy, this couple probably had the gender dynamics of their relationship set down in the 1950s.

I also like how I am not even allowed to talk about an issue if you deem that it relates to Mexico or "Mexican culture" and that I am not sufficiently informed. This is even funnier when one realizes that the video in question is referencing chola culture, a subculture born in East LA created by chicanos. That is to…

Except in South Africa some people definitely do black up :) Cape Malays have their annual minstrel show and while there is less black face in years past it still happens. I personally don't have any problem with this tradition and LOVE Cape Malay moppies. The only people who seem upset by seem to be Americans who are…

Basically you are just buying into the fetishized idea of a unitary Mexican culture that Frida was creating. Also apparently this one culture is a perfect mix of all cultures. How did this mixture happen without any appropriation? Like at one point everyone woke up and their cultures were all jumbled? Or was there a…

I took a class called sociology of gender, on the wall to the left of the right of the professor was a poster of a uterus. On the last day of class I walked up to the professor to thank her for the class and realized it was a picture of an upside down octopus.

So the nation is a useful boundary in thinking about appropriation? When Miley dresses like African-American women its OK because she just wants to showcase various aspects of American culture?

I wish people would stop using this term at all because it reeks of the worst excesses of political correctness. I'm all for calling out racist shit, when it is racist shit but I am highly suspicious of any tool of analysis that requires me to first assign a race to an artist and then assign a proper racial category…

Yes I feel Jezebel needs to be more judgmental in tone.

They probably are proud of where they are from and as recent immigrants enjoy talking about the home country. As someone that they identify as a fellow "foreigner" they are trying to bond with you.

Man this author would have hated Elvis! As well as every act of cultural accretion in Eurasian history over the past three thousand years!

Thanks, my googling skills had come up with "the sound made by Nightcrawler when he teleports" and I didn't know what a Nightcrawler was.

You assume the person wrote this.

Bamf?

Because Muslims plunged the world into Two World Wars, carried out the Holocaust, triggered the Indo-China Wars that saw 6 million people lose their lives, and then staged a Cold War threatening global nuclear annihilation?

Actually this violence is laegely in response to Stalin's attempts to eradicate the Chechen people. During World War II the Chechens (and other enemy peoples) were rounded up at bayonet point and sent to Central Asia and Siberia in cattle cars. The population was literally decimated, genocide level decimated. In the…

That is my point, America hasn't apologized or even recognized any of these crimes.