Me too!

You didn't criticise my points, you questioned my motives and called me insincere. Two very different things. You might want to admit to at least doing that.

My issue is that Ginny is given even less character description than Cho. It always bothered me in the books that Ginny was just such a non-character, but Harry was supposed to fall in love with her. We're told nothing of interest about her, but that other boys find her attractive. Ugh. At least with Cho we see that…

Tokenism is perhaps the only real critique that Rostad makes against JKR, in my opinion. But tokenism itself is not enough to cry racism. She makes mistakes in her critique, such as the expectation that Cho is a significant enough character to merit more fleshing out. Only the 3 main characters, plus Neville, Luna,…

Think you deserved measured and mature for suggesting that I'm trying to discount racism and being insincere about wanting to listen to someone's point of view? I'm not one to be easily dismissed.

Would you have preferred that I asked her at the beginning? The middle? What gives you the authority to question my sincerity, which BTW is fucking sincere. So I'm pretty offended that you assume I'm just being a dickhead who wants to defend Harry Potter and refute all charges of racism because I'm just a dick. So…

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…