Probably stopped being his problem when they came out with vaginas, otherwise he'd be up for some parental time with them.

Perhaps Castro was incredibly mentally ill. If so, shouldn't we as a society treat him like a person who was mentally ill?

You post reminded me of the last time I went to a renaissance fair... I ran into a girl I went to high school with working there and she was not allowed to "break character" because her boss was standing their.

One of the coolest things I ever did as a kid was live in a historical village as a kid from 1845 for a week. It was run like a summer camp (you slept in a dorm at night), except I had to wear a bonnet and dress and go to a one room school house and do shit like churn butter and hook rugs (instead of, idk, soccer…

This reminds me of a date I went on with a gorgeous guy. I mentioned that I liked living in the city because the suburbs were so homogenous, and he replied "Yeah, I think gay people should do what they want"

At what point do you stop giving passes to people who lack the education? If you don't learn about feminism in school, but instead toss your opinions about in the media, don't you think you should be held accountable for what you say?

Indeed. When I last visited Mt. Vernon in the 1980's, a Russian speaking friend and I came upon some Russian tourists who were trying to decipher the informational sign on one of the 'slave quarters'. I will never forget the look of horror on the tourists' faces as they learned for the first time that the Washingtons…

lesbians (or women for that matter) dont use grindr :/

Maybe if you're doing Penis Puppet Theatre of the Star Trek episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion" where Kirk and the other members (heh) of the away team were forced to wear control collars and do battle for the entertainment of disembodied brains:

The Hopi didn't ban "hippies." They banned environmentalists and their own citizens from protesting against the Peabody Coal company. Environmentalists and other Hopi citizens wanted the EPA to study the pollution generated from their mines, but there was a lot money to be lost by "Big Coal" if the findings were…

I just think it's the cultural appropriation that is problematic, along with the unwillingness to acknowledge how privileged one must be to live a lifestyle the way this woman does. I don't know many hippies that travel from Bali to Hawaii on the reg because it's incredibly expensive (and I'm from Oregon!).

Everyone in the world is batshitfucking crazy. Every single one of them. This is why I stay inside a lot.

Hardcore racism? Are you sure you're not thinking of Nazis?

Dude, you got pissed about something and stopped reading anything anyone else was writing. No one said hippies were an oppressed social group, no one said there was anything wrong with the Hopi hippie ban. OP posted that people with alternative lifestyles are getting a lot of shit on the internet. You can point that…

As far as " Appropriation" goes. I don't believe in apartheid. Being non white and living in a predominately white country have had an impact on this. I grew up being told that the culture I was born into “wasn't for me” because of the colour of my skin. I think sectarianism is wrong full stop. We should appreciate…

That's true, but what the OP was saying still stands. We seem to have painted all hippies with a certain "disingenuous, appropriative, destructive" brush, which is not any more fair than any other generalization. And pointing that out doesn't show disregard for what the Hopi went through in terms of appropriation, it…

So screw all long haired people the world over right? There are no non white hippies out there who don't invade Hopi land yeah? The more I know.

The internet really hates hippies at the moment doesn't it? I can't be the only one whose noticed this. Anything vaguely alternative or dippy gets slammed by bloggers and commenters alike. I'm actually amazed that this article isn't deriding the woman and her off centre lifestyle. Thanks Doug.

What new information does this article bring to the reader than hasn't already been reported in the Daily Dot and Huffington Post articles? Why not just link in a round-up post or find a new angle? This is just paraphrasing what's already been said.