tl;dr I suppose because at the end I explicitly ask for an exchange of ideas and for her to elaborate what he means.

If you want to talk about the characters then by all means lets talk about them:

Your last point is probably the best. If it isn't in the best interest of the child, it doesn't matter if it is in the best interest of the tribe. This is precisely the issue that needs to be assessed. Who is to say that she would be raised within the tribe by Dusten Brown in the first place? Not all native peoples…

CUT THE BABY IN HALF!

It's in no way sure that she wont remember the transition or find it traumatic because she's two years old. Parental attachment occurs early on, usually before the age of 2. This isn't about white people feeling like they're owed a child. This is about a couple feeling like THEIR child is being taken away from them.…

Doesn't deciding what is in the best interest of the child have more to do than with just her cultural heritage. I'm not questioning whether Dusten Brown is a suitable parent, or if his daughter has a right to know her tribal heritage. But does knowing your heritage and being with your biological parent outweigh…

You aren't saying it badly. I pretty much agree that you can't dismiss the bindi as having no religious significance at all, but I do think that this isn't as much an issue because the bindi is religious or not, but because appropriation when someone looks like they're a parody of someone else's culture is offensive.

See, hijab is a really bad example overall because it isn't sacred either and I shouldn't have included it. It is part of secular (meaning of this world) Muslim dress which is why no one would think it inappropriate to make outsiders comply with wearing a hijab in Saudi Arabia and other countries, though there are…

I think you might be referencing South Asian Muslims who don't want to wear bindis and you're not wrong. But that has less to do with how the bindi is viewed within the Hindu community than how the bindi is viewed by Muslims. So while it isn't necessarily sacred to the vast majority of Hindus, it resembles something…

There is no "ok" when it comes to questions of religious conversion. Some people will never fully accept you because they don't see a difference between their cultural identity and their religion: they are Buddhist because they are Sri Lankan and since you can't become Sri Lankan then you will never be a "real"…

I have to say though that most Indians view their fashion as superior to Western fashion, so while appropriation is still appropriation, a lot of people are sitting back and going, see how much better we dress than they do? And this is part of the reason why Indians are not shy to push their clothing and attire onto…

Thank you, I forgot the word for the sandalwood or vermilion paste that is used in the ceremony but this is the point I tried to make earlier. No one hands out a plastic, sparkly bindi in a temple. Men and women both receive a dot on the forehead for performing puja in sacred paste that is itself used in the ritual.…

But the Hijab and the rosary are used in religious ceremonies. The bindi actually isn't. The bindi is used to replace sandalwood paste and vermillion which is used to mark the foreheads of people who have done a puja. No one gives out bindis in temples. Plain red felt bindis are used on a daily basis by women who do…

Pisceslitchick isn't wrong in that there is no criticism for how the bindi is used within Indian popular culture - worn by characters in film and TV that aren't supposed to be Hindu. More importantly, the bindi is a stand in for the actual religious symbol which is sandalwood or vermillion paste. The bindi is…

Bindis are worn in India as fashion just as much as they are worn for religious purposes. Look at all the item songs where seductresses gyrate to pop music wearing bindis, many of the white back up dancers also wear them. No one complains but the far right who don't want to see anyone gyrate anywhere.

The question of determining viability should be a medical decision between a doctor and patient without political manipulation. We don't need government controls on viability for situations like this not to occur. We need women to have access to consistent prenatal care and abortion services, so they are not put into…

Even in places where there are no laws on abortion (like Canada) and abortion could theoretically take place at any time, doctors will not perform a late term abortion that would result in a viable baby. It's only in cases where there is severe genetic or birth defects, or the life of the mother is in danger that very…

I was listening to an interview with director of an abortion clinic in ND and she explained that in order to qualify for admitting priviledged at local hospitals in her state, the doctor would need to admit 10 patients a year. Since they have only ever had to send one patient to a hospital in 10 years, you can see how…

My feelings exactly.

I think the side effects of taking Plan B are much much safer than the side of effects of being pregnant, and both involve some degree of lower abdominal cramps.