Even China goes for names like The Flowers, or if we expand to mandopop in general there's Lollipop F and Fahrenheit.

None of my neighbors have interesting names; they're all 5 random characters (all alphanumeric). Mine's Skynet, but I get the feeling it's lost on my neighbors.

ok trying to think of a way to say this without being an ass, but the reason Japanese groups don't sing in Korean is because the Japanese market is actually big enough to make a lot money off of, so they don't have to. The Korean market is a lot lot smaller, so you see the groups expanding into Japan, China, and…

No epic female-centric stories with a female hero? I guess she skipped out on a lot of YA besides HP.

I vaguely recall her harassing people who pointed out her plagiarism, especially the part where she attempted to get a girl kicked out of university for the plagiarism accusations (they had been friends, so she called the girl's university and made up a bunch of shit. 27 year old woman picking on an 18 year old).

I've seen on Jez/tumblr that white people shouldn't wear sari because of cultural appropriation issues. Not mine, can't wear, essentially. It seems confusing to navigate sometimes?

Probably gonna get piled on for this, but what of when it's a white person telling a brown person what they should find offensive? I feel pretty much a fool trying to explain to my Muslim friends why I could never wear any of their culture's when they offer to get me a scarf or whatever, or my Indian friends when they…

I always wondered how people count this. One of my favorite bands is 3 guys 2 girls, but since the vocalist is a guy does that mean they're a male act?

I've actually had a variation of this pulled on me more than a few times. "If you don't like the wag gap/social inequality/etc why don't you just admit you want to be a man?"

There is a site that translates comments from select (usually celebrity-related crap, but in this case actual real) Korean news articles into English, in case anyone is wondering about the reaction from a small group of Koreans towards this is.

Nintendo's also working with Atlus a bit; Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem for Wii U was announced a while ago. But who knows, game could be canned if they're bought up by MS or Sony or whoever.

Well I guess you then run into problems defining a "dead" culture. "Reconstruction" of Hellenic polytheism is very much an actual thing, but it is small and not wide spread. Does culture then have an expiration date, after so many years 'inactive' it becomes free to all?

But I loved the Ace Attorney/Gyukuten Saiban movie ):

Yeah I guess we should just stop liking all the things we do, stop involving ourselves in communities that share our interests because... because there are assholes! Women should also just give up on: TV, books, walking outside, existing outside of their defined gender roles because people will be assholes to us if we…

Maybe it'll just take a while for it to come full circle? Like how everyone eventually realized that saying skinny = unattractive was still placing the same onus on women NEEDING to be attractive as the people saying fat = unattractive.

Except people in the comments are doing exactly that. Women with less partners = boring, lame prudes. I don't think swinging to the opposite end of the spectrum is good either.

I've noticed this from a fair number of other countries... I had someone once tell me that racism/sexism didn't exist in their country, and that racism/sexism themselves were something Americans made up.

Pfft, you got a boy but I don't need a man!

If you had two friends who had a falling out, and one was constantly talking shit on the other, what would you do? Ignore it? Tell them to stop?

It's also kind of weird because she uses it as an example of not caring enough to get the name right because of lack of research/racism, but she in turn glosses over the fact that the name is valid and waves it off saying she didn't do the research. So... She did exactly what she's accusing JKR of doing?