Hope you enjoyed your election :)

And this where liberals fucked it up. Bush made mistakes undoubtedly, he fucked up. But he wasn’t the Nazi that he was characterized as. He isn’t mentally retarded like people wanted to paint him. He didn’t become the “I’m keeping the Presidency” authoritarian they said he would. And he was *their* president, even…

Thanks for the canned response, it was full of selective information and very deceptive phrasing.

No, as much as Trump sucks the Hitler comparisons make no sense to anyone with the slightest understanding of history. It’s lazy, it’s stupid, it’s dangerous.

Still disappointed in you, you poor shrill girl.

Not our election, huh? OK. I won’t bother voting at all. Good luck!

If you believe Clarke Macarthur is the most important player on Ottawa, you know nothing about hockey.

That’s your observation - that someone was “trying to be Asian.” Okay.

True. It is. But how can you, or I, or anyone “tell” - absent gross caricature such as you have described - whether a person is appropriating or respecting a culture? I don’t think we can.

Ahhh. So appropriation is in the eye of the observer. It’s a subjective assessment based on what an observer believes to be true of another person.

How can you tell whether the wearer is “respecting the culture behind it” or not?

But see, I’m not sure about the Hanfu. I remember seeing an exhibit on them and recalling that it made clear that there is no “special” context to the Hanfu - it was simply a particular style of dress that evolved at a certain time. They’re not religious dress or even tied to particular cultural ceremonies or rituals.…

I sport a Fu Man Chu mustache. Appropriation?

I stand with her in principle/Come at me bro.

This morning, I discovered that Curtis Sittenfeld is a woman, and now I find out Lionel Shriver is a woman, too? What a confusing world we live in.

the answer to your question is that for people who can think rationally, yes, it is possible.

Is it possible to say something about one trans person without it equating to saying it about all trans people?

Having respect for transgender people and also believing Kaitlin Jenner may be a phony are not mutually exclusive points of view.

My, first thought was like

I don’t get it.