I swear to God, he's just deliberately saying ridiculous shit because he knows what a fundraising bonanza "MEAN LIBRULS MADE FUN OF ME" is.

"That's not only condescending, it's offensive," said the person who thinks any woman who claims to wear a burqa by choice is brainwashed.

I don't see any defense of those instances; I see Lady Gaga being called out for being a white woman who appropriates/sexualizes other people's cultural ephemera to be "edgy."

Wow, it took way longer for "BUT SAYING THAT RACIST THINGS ARE RACIST IS ALSO RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" to be pulled out than I thought it would.

The article completely ignores it because it's completely irrelevant to the central point that Lady Gaga is being super-appropriative and Orientalist by using it this way. If you think it's exclusively representative of misogyny and institutional repression of women, you should take issue with the trivialization…

"Are you that fucking clueless?" demanded the person who thinks women only wear burqas in Muslim theocracies.

I briefly misread this as "In the Woods." I just don't think she's right for Cassie Maddox.

Well, sure. I'm not a fan of dictating anyone's own thoughts and desires to them. It's just that when it's in the context of white Westerners doing it to Middle Eastern Muslims, it's against the backdrop of our extensive history of fucking up the region by telling them we know what's best for them.

Two shithead rape apologists said awful things, ergo no woman is exercising her own agency when she wears a burqa, and it's totally okay for Lady Gaga to play dressup with other cultures (along with her charming experiments in blackface and imitating paraplegics.)

I feel like when I say that I, as a white person, don't engage in appropriation because I find it offensive, and I don't think other white people should either, I'm addressing what I feel my race should do, not others'. I'm sure there are people whose cultures are the target of appropriation that don't think it's a…

If you wouldn't even read the explanation in the article you're commenting on, why would you read mine?

Have you considered using your amazing power of looking at a person's clothing and discerning their entire life story to aid the police or the FBI?

I'm so glad we have white people around to explain at non-white people why they have no right to find things offensive.

a religion that murders women by the shitload

So it IS similarly distasteful for her to sexualize a nun's habit, then, given the United States' history of colonialism and murder in South America and/or enabling of same Because Freedom. Okay. Glad we're sort-of on the same page.

Soft to Sexy

That's not really a valid analogy considering she's not part of a culture that subjugated/colonized/mass-murdered Catholics.

for every woman who says that she wears one out of choice there's another one compelled to do so by the laws of the country she was born in.

I would say I welcome the death of the conservative "IF POOR PEOPLE ARE POOR Y R THEY FAT LOL" talking point, but then I was all hahahahah, no, these people still haven't adjusted their talking points to reflect welfare reform, and that happened nearly 20 years ago.

The answer, as covered elsewhere on the thread, is that he did.