Probably worth mentioning that “the heart wants what it wants” is a quote from Emily Dickinson.

I sometimes wonder if people from other countries really care about cultural appropriation. My mother-in-law, for example, is from India and is in many ways still traditional. I suspect based on many of her previous actions and comments that many things deemed cultural appropriation wouldn’t bother her. She’s not…

This is good.

Can I pipe in from the opposite angle? ‘Cause I’m old.

Back in the olden days before cell phones and interwebs you could go out with someone, even more than once, and because things were slower, communication less instant and constant, getting ghosted was less painful. Answering machines were wonky, roommates flaky with messages, numbers juxtaposed, rejection was just…

Good for you, Aimee. Like you when I was alone (non-stop for the first 30 years of my life) I shrugged and said “it’s just me, it’s just who I am, to be alone.” I tried to convince everyone around me that it was fine, it didn’t matter, I’d be alone forever and that was a-ok.

You don’t get it at all. That’s the point of the song. Half Breed is about a woman who is not accepted in either world though she is part of both. So she mocks them both. The costume is her talking back to people who rejected her as one of their blood and mocking what the people from the rest of her background think…

I was described as half-caste by family, friends, and teachers in the 80s. It was normal then, it wouldn’t have occurred to me to be offended. Now it’s considered offensive by most. I guess I could spend the rest of my life feeling aggrieved and setting out to shame the surviving offenders, but it would be a waste of…

It is now. It wasn’t in 1973. In 1973, you were only just starting to see sympathetic depictions of Native Americans and their cultures, and a lot of non-Native people were interesting in learning about what had only been portrayed in a negative light, until the late-60s. And wearing clothing and jewelry influenced by…

>The whole act is one big offensive caricature.

Yes, by today”s standards it is. Back in the early 70”s, I’m sure it was offensive to native Americans, but most people did not understand things in the same way we understand them today. It’s easy to say this is wrong. To judge what something looks like through our 2017 eyes. It’s not an excuse, but if we judge…

Yep. Younger people tend to forget they were born into this world that was shaped by people of Cher’s generation. People who had to fight to get where we are today, people who held racist, sexist, homophobic views who have changed with exposure and education. Hell not even just Cher’s lifetime. In my lifetime. Just…

Too many now a days forget that humans are capable of changing.

They were led, specifically, by Thatcher and Reagan.

If you look at the late 70s and early 80s, there was an amazing convergence of events that led to being the catalyst of a wild alteration to the musical landscape that reverberates today.

I’ve always thought of it as a defense mechanism. Imagine you’re the first black president and throughout your entire presidency, people are throwing the most offensive racist shit at you. Then the loudest and most obnoxious of the whole incapable and embarrassing lot actually wins the election after you and does…

Why are you acting like white actresses have no agency when these things happen? Yeah, it wasn’t her decision to make the cover itself, but she absolutely had the ability to speak out about it before a woman of color called her out. these women have power. they have platforms. they’re not as up there as many of their…

Your username is chosen well. :) Jessica Chastain is “activist” compared to her peers because she speaks out, but her peers do next to nothing, and “speaking out” against one’s overlords becomes somewhat meaningless if one stays under their control by choice.

The thing is, You’re not wrong, and she’s not wrong. However, Jessica Chastain wields a great deal of power, especially when participating in a photo shoot. It’s extremely likely that her publicist vetted who else was going to be in the photo before agreeing to do it - “Who else is confirmed?” is the standard question…

Give me a break. Jezebel gets off on demanding men in Hollywood, regardless of their power and position, risk their jobs, their reputations, their livelihoods, to speak out against their far more powerful male bosses in support of women. It doesn’t matter if they are in any way connected to those women outside of…