I pretty much agree with everything in this article. I am a bit caught between the fact that cultural appropriation often ends in erasure, and the fact that encountering others and learning from / being inspired by them can be culturally good (as in, bringing different groups together, not as in profitable or even…

Well, that has its own solution in the story, right? If women didn’t leave their houses at night, they wouldn’t tempt men into propositioning them (and everyone knows women who do hair are asking for it), and then they wouldn’t unjustly reject said men they tempted, and then their babies wouldn’t get shot. See?…

No. It isn’t a waste of time to teach students (and often this means forcing them) to learn to write better. Be verbs are lazy and often used incorrectly.