This is satire, right? You don’t honestly believe we should be banning/censoring art just because a committee thinks its similar to a particular style?

who owns culture?

All culture is appropriated. Period. From everyone and by everyone.

I’m pretty sure everyone agrees with you that this feels wrong. The problem is, when you are talking about passing laws, you have to think about more than how it feels, and how it will actually affect people. If we say that one culture owns all of their traditional imagery, won’t more and more cultures try to control…

Answer: It’s only bad when white people do it.

The case in the US was one where the tribe had actual patents. That’s a straight copyright case, and they should absolutely win that. And I’m all for having a law that stops someone else from coming in and getting copyrights on stuff that is your traditional cultural designs and whatnot. A company trying to do that is…

As an indigenous person, all I want to say is :fuck the UN. Also not every indigenous person lets themselves get caught up in childish identity politics. Most of us just work, raise our families and pay our taxes just like everybody else.

It seems especially hard considering the entire history of art and design is built on artists and cultures being inspired by other artists and cultures. Rome took almost their entire culture from the Greeks and Etruscans. Every movement in art is built around many artists all inspiring one another so they have a…

Probably the dumbest thing I’ve read all week. This is what happens when PC bullshit goes too far. Cultural appropriation is bullshit anyway unless someone is making money off of it.

Im glad the UN is working on important issues like this instead of North Korea nuclear proliferation and African genocide.

Well. This seems like a well-meaning can of worms.

This is pretty fucking stupid. I am an artist and have paid major homage to the First Americans of the PNW in the US in my art. That being said, misleading and misrepresentation are bad, obviously, but banning/punishing “cultural appropriation” is an absurd notion.

The situation isn’t very Humerus

Same. To me is a friend I talk to when I need support, when I want to give them support, a person who I want to share the tough and important times with. Problem is, the people I’ve been closest to have eventually moved far away and it’s hard to maintain that kind of friendship once marriages and families and busy…

Friendship goes both ways, Diane. Give Meryl a call.

or idk, try teaching girls that they shouldn't give a fuck about High School Bro Boners?

HOW ABOUT TELLING GIRLS NOT TO GIVE A FUCK ABOUT WHAT TEEN BOYS THINK?

There are many, many people who look like Chris Pratt and even fitter who work 9-5 jobs and have families and social lives. It literally takes 45-90 minutes of work, 4-5 days a week. Really, they're everywhere. People even go from way larger than Chris Pratt, to way fitter. It's honestly not crazy. People can…

Of course you are a normal man. But you are part of a subculture that notoriously has much higher beauty standard impositions than the ones found among straight men.