I’m pretty sure the Navajo Nation, which successfully sued Urban Outfitters for using Navajo patterns, would disagree with your assumption.

I’m indigenous Mexican and I’m upset about this. I left comments on Wes Gordon’s Instagram. 

The difference between melding of cultures and appropriation is the power differential. There’s a difference between painters influencing each other across cultures and companies copying designs from marginalized people and selling them to a wealthy white audience. Why not approach it as a collaboration and make sure…

It doesn’t matter what size your labia is with this outfit. It matters whether you plan to move your legs more than one millimeter apart while wearing it. Because if your legs move, your labia move, and that bodysuit will end up cutting you in half in a way that is so painful that, you, being a man - can’t even…

Oh god. I can literally feel what would happen with a jumping jack. Thanks for the cringe.

You clearly possess empathy, and very likely a measure of humility.

Thanks. I had no idea that charitable organizations dedicated to fighting hunger existed. 

You seem to miss the point, which is, keep that shit, whatever your beliefs are, to yourself. Some don’t, and I find it annoying.

have you SEEN Jesus’ abs?

So, I was born and raised in Europe - I lived in Italy for 23 years, and I can promise you that the average Italian is racist as fuck, and the more money they have, the more they view Africans as being sub-human - like dirty monkeys in clothes. There are a number of street vendors from Morocco that come to Italy and…

Oh yes they can, trust me.

 Are all these designers really trying to make blackface & minstrels trendy? It really fucking looks like they're all doing it on purpose. 

I’ve moved, took about 90% of my books with me. You don’t fill moving boxes to the brim with books, have one or two layers of books at the bottom and then fill the box with clothes, pillows, duvets, blankets, curtains, etc. 

Booze boxes from the liquor store are excellent for books, because 1. they’re small and 2. can handle weight.

And to be fair, Kondo never said anything like burn every last written word in your home, or anything. She actually said she personally has about thirty books that she owns permanently, but that’s for her.

Right? I mean, “Average Anna almost certainly has issues with her self-image.”

It sounds like Average Anna has a pretty good time until she gets married and has kids.  That was obviously her mistake.

One thing I almost never hear in these discussions is that there’s non-trivial value in having numerous books around you haven’t read yet. There are many times throughout a year when I want to read something new and I don’t really know what I want to start.  So I browse through my shelves until something jumps out at…

I think a lot of her critics haven’t actually read her book. And fair enough - I don’t read books just to verify they suck as much as I think they will. But I also don’t go around saying they suck. Just that I figure they do.

So what’s the over-under on this? Either the courts revisit that lawsuit and Scientology starts facing a bunch more similar ones, which they will litigate aggressively, vindictively, and ceaselessly until they win; or, the courts accept the argument, and an abusive cult that kept women as sex slaves is allowed to…