If someone had told me ten years ago that I would come to really like Pink, I would not have believed them. But now I do, I like her music, I like her voice, I like her style and I like her. Pink, you rock.

"There are no sacred cows."

Go home Marc Jacobs, you're drunk.

Thats weird, because I'm able to make cynical comments about white privilege AND do interesting things with my life. They are not exclusive. It turns out, the interesting things I do are NOT gross and racist.

Here's my issue: We (white people, Americans, whatever) have this habit of taking long-standing traditions and sacred titles from other cultures and destroying the meaning of them. Guru. Ninja. Sherpa. The list goes on and on. You will never hear someone say, "Oh man, I'm so good at Googling, I'm like a Google…

Dear god. This has nothing to do with "protecting the Maasai" from this fool. They have real world problems encroaching on their culture and traditional lifestyle. This is about her appropriating their every day lived experience for profit and then acting as if she is opening some door for women that this backwards…

Slavery is a dog whistle buzzword and I have no idea what I'm talking about.

You haven't seen it because it hasn't happened. Everyone's criticism is against the actions of the woman who is writing the book. This person is a dense troll who can not even recognize their own bias.

A-F*CKING-MEN!! As a person whose degree was Anthropology (Archaeology), this just smells of bullshittery and a big "look at me! A white girl who couldn't run and now I kill buffalos and don't take showers for 10 days and I'm a WARRIOR!" It just fucking irks me to no end. Does she even know anything more than a…

Just because you don't understand those words doesn't mean that we don't or that they don't mean anything.

I never claimed to be helping the Maasai. I'm pretty sure they can handle themselves. I'm pointing out what countless others have already pointed out to you - this is the textbook definition of white privilege. She spent two weeks there and then profits from her little excursion into the heart of Africa. We can…

Beautifully put.

...simply traveling, doing interesting things, and sharing the experiences with others... Are you seriously claiming this is all she's done here? You're the one who seems confused about what the word "co-opt" means. Let's see: a privileged white girl from America presumes that she is entitled to immerse herself in…

"This particular privileged white girl has gone off and done something that the local women cannot and have not done."

"Who knows?" What do you mean, "who knows?" Maybe you don't, but a lot of us do know. We know because we went about studying the effects of White Privilege/White Savior, the situations of women in Africa (my undergrad thesis - I was no older than Mindy!), the traditions and cultures of Maasai, etc etc etc, far more…

You're operating under the assumption that it doesn't harm anything, so there is no risk. The reality is that there is harm - there is harm in continuing to celebrate the idea that white people should go to Africa and tell them how it's done.

Yeah, because a privileged American white lady co-opting a culture she knows little to nothing about, then turning around and writing a book that glorifies herself as THE FIRST female Maasai warrior, is extreeeeemely helpful to the native women, I bet. I'm sure it doesn't reinforce the "entitled American asshole"…

This is my first time commenting (I studied Anthropology as an undergrad — learning extensively about the Maasai — and am currently a grad student in Women's Studies, so I do feel strongly about this), but Mindy Budgor enrages me. If she ever took a decent anthropology (or even history) course, she'd know about the…

It's not an equal two-way street. White people have a long, storied history of oppressing other cultures, complete with appropriating the bits they like and skewering the bits they don't - in this case, living there contributing to their culture isn't good enough for her, but she still wants to be included in their…

It's like The Blind Side: Kenya Edition.