Give me a fucking break. ‘No white people possibly profiting from the religious practices of others’? Yoga has been around, in various forms, for over 5000 years.

99.99% of the time the people who cry appropriation aren’t members of the appropriated culture themselves. it’s just a load of white guilt. the only place where i see a genuine issue with appropriation is where the appropriated item or symbol has some kind of sacred value that is unknown to the wearer... like don’t go…

Nose rings? Really? I thought the only thing nose rings appropriated was boogers that should have ended up on a tissue but instead are glued permanently to the piercing. This is all news to me.

Most would argue that its not. Henna and bindis most people agree are cultural sharing as they don’t have any sort of deeper meaning for most people in their culture. It’s about as “appropriative” as blue jeans are.

You don’t get to tell other people how to dress. Sorry.

Ok, so let me see if we can get some clear rules.

I’ve been practicing yoga for DECADES and have NEVER come across a yoga class that gets “caught up in the eastern mysticism thing.” What’s your reference point?

Okay, I’ll bite - how is applying henna cultural appropriation?

The Catholic Church is indeed the very model of patriarchy and it could not treat women more poorly. In the context of feminism, there are still some good things that can be said in terms of empowering women. When we look at these orders with modern eyes, it’s easy to forget what society was like when most nuns in…

I’ve known some wonderful, bad, and nondescript nuns. I think the bad comes from relatively powerless people desperately trying to assert power.

Ugh. My aunt entered the convent in the 90’s in Wilmington, Delaware. It was a cloistered order and when we visited her she was behind bars, we were never alone with her, etc. I know my grandparents donated plenty of money to the convent and she was never completely ordained as she had a “breakdown.” Either my dad or…

Ugh fuck religion. Every year I become more and more convinced that “religion” is just a more palatable way of saying “cult”.

Wondering how many of the comments will be a version of yours: “your mother’s experience is likely unrepresentative. Instead of listening to her story, let me tell you about these other awesome nuns I know.”

That Cat Stevens line was a joke, right? Because there are endless tales of his unholy douchiness.

This is an appropriate response.

your mom is NSFW.

Do they sparkle? Please say they don’t sparkle.

Surprisingly large numbers of Isis sympathizers are open about it.

That’s hilarious, except for the part where your point is entirely invalid. The only part of this that isn’t lego is the pin-board, and that’s very mundane; the awesome part of the robot - the manipulators and the reset mechanism are absolutely lego, and they account for 99% of the point of this. I’m sure you could…