I know that’s how they think, but as a general rule, if you find yourself lying you are probably on the wrong side.
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It’s a huge organization, so change is slow, but it does happen. Vatican II made a lot of advancements, and hopefully we’re close to doing that again.
It may be partly because I’ve always been around military bases or colleges, but the Catholics in the churches I’ve been to have been largely liberal and not overly strict or dogmatic. Many priests advise women to make their own choices on birth control, for instance—including my mom’s, way back in 1970. The child…
I believed all that too, until they tried to pass Personhood in Mississippi. Then I saw data that showed me the things I believed were incorrect. The people holding these signs may never have been exposed to honest information, but the organizations responsible for making them have, and it’s just plain wrong for them…
There is a significant percentage trying to bring change from the inside.
You know those times when you just can’t let something slide? Those signs.... “Women are safer without it.” It’s an outright lie. If people have to lie to convince people of their side, they’re on the wrong side. I just can’t let this pass without calling it out.
This is why I’m afraid to write music. =(
That is exactly it. I wish I could star that twice.
Sorry about that...my comment was directed towards an apparently white person who was concerned about her past hairstyle being offensive. I was offering examples of other white hairstyles that could be considered offensive by black, native, or other non-dominant groups without considering that someone might read it as…
Point taken. What I had in mind was the whole “trustafarian” style that rich white kids were taking on a while back. When it comes down to it, I’m mostly on the side of do whatever you want with your own damn hair, but certain things do go too far and are harmful to already oppressed groups.
It’s usually between two and six large braids, and they can be overhand or underhand, but more often you see them underhand. They are supposed to be braided tight to the scalp. Only about half the images in this Jez article are boxer braids, and the article that it links to on NYP has a pic that’s neither boxer braids…
It’s not offensive to wear your hair in a style that works for your hair texture. It’s offensive to dread your hair if your hair doesn’t naturally dread. It’s offensive to wear a unique style that’s sacred to another culture. But just making tight braids to keep your hair tamed does not count as harmful appropriation.
Actually, the Post article specifies Africa as the origination point. It also fails to understand what’s actually meant by the term “boxer braid”, which is supposed to encompass both underhand and overhand large braids in a front-to-back configuration. The photo they use at the top of the article isn’t even an…
Side note: Sasha’s hair in the pic in that NYP article is decidedly *not* in boxer braids.
Braids are cross-cultural. Names for things can adapt. When people say “boxer braids” they don’t mean cornrows in general, they mean specifically a small number of braids, braided against the scalp in straight lines front to back, either underhand or overhand. Cornrows are large or small, braided underhand, in a…
I’ll stop ordering breakfast sandwiches at night when they start selling a veggie burger. The prospect of getting an egg and cheese sandwich is the only thing that’s put McDonald’s back into the realm of edible restaurants.
Doubled down? The only thing I saw on his twitter regarding it was him retweeting links to two articles about how wrong he was. (One of them on Forbes..) Did he delete tweets?
It’s all okay! He respects the process of science and will gladly *change his belief* after he is presented with the evidence!
Tribalism: It’s a hell of a drug.