Poor Dworkin. She was a bit older than me, and she got raped while being imprisoned during the Freedom Riders campaign. She was a battered woman, a rape victim, someone who saw "lord and master" laws used by men who raped their own daughters then legally sold off their wives' property for the trial because the…

I am a victim of the war of northern aggression!

What's great about this is that a lot of women's movements in different cultures have trouble with a "violence against women" framework, because the individualism that we Westerners value so much isn't prized in many cultures, so the rhetoric falls flat or is even seen as cultural imperialism. But framing…

They're just going to leave it vague and evaluate things on an individual basis as people complain about them. The problem is that just about everything is offensive to someone, so they'll end up having to look at a whole lot of materials if they don't want to be accused of not being social conscious. And even then,…

My cousin was getting hit on hard-core at a bar one night, like, seriously the guy just wouldn't take the hint. So after a while, he looked down at his phone and she said suddenly, "Who are you talking to?" He looked really confused as she continued, "Oh my God, you're talking to another girl? HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO…

When did I mention Margaret Cho, random Korean-American performer? Furthermore, when did I say that other PoC's couldn't culturally appropriate from other folks? *looks around* Oh, I didn't? Huh. Welp...there's that. And, let's get some specificity. Japanese or Japanese-American? Remember, diasporic peoples from the…

Umm... at the initial trial they were fined $3,000 and given three years probation. For murder. After much outrage by the Asian American community, the father was given 25 years. His son got nothing. On appeal, he walked free. After murdering a man because he was Asian.

Tupac malappropriated from the disenfranchised women!

Listen. My argument is not that I am color-blind or that I feel like I should get to run around in my pearls and Nantucket reds (yep, totally own both!) blissfully unaware of my own privilege. (I couldn't, even if I tried, after furtively reading Paulo Freire and trying to figure shit out whilst waxing philosophical…

I love that - "despite being a woman". Hey, sorry about that experience of sexual violence, male patriarchy, and 72 cents on the dollar, but at least you're white!"

This discussion, of cultural appropriation and the flaunting of gross ignorance, is rich and important. Oh white people is noxious.

I love how white people and academic black people are pretty much the only ones who get offended by this shit and then feel the need to tell everyone else why they should be offended... You all remind me of church missionaries trying to save my soul from sin.

White people don't have culture? Do you not interact with any white people? Listen, I dig this piece overall, but I do not dig the resulting attacks on all that is white. Just because there are things dominant and oppressive about whiteness doesn't mean you get to write off white history and culture writ large. I…

It's certainly challenging me. I'm not sure I'm completely on board with it—Madonna did the same thing with gay people with Vogue (and well, her whole career, even pulling Britney Spears and Christina A. into the act) and Lady Gaga's entire existence more or less centers on impersonating early 90s drag queens. IMO the…

Why is it that the only comments displayed are ones that agree with the Author? Some others made a good point but clearly Jezebel hivemind must continue on. Dodai your articles normally rock but this is giving off vibes like the NPR yellow cake article.

I kind of wonder what it's like to be a black person who isn't interested in any of those things and have white people constantly telling you that those things are a part of your identity and you should be so attached to them that you get mad when white people try to take them from you.

Right—that's what I'm saying. There's a huge amount of pressure to be perfect and be a "model" like other groups are. That's what brings about unfavorable comparisons between different immigrant groups.

The thing is - if I were to scrimp and save (or if I had the funds) to spend $2000 on a handbag, I would expect that handbag to last many years and look pretty good many years later. Styles may change but the bag would hold up.

We'll know that we've reached true equality when gays and lesbians feel free to approach their wedding with the same vulgar sense of entitlement and ingratitude that straight people have.

Speaking of stereotypes...

Speaking as a white woman from the South, yes, I fucking expect something different.