I'm in the Northeast, so it probably goes without saying that our middle-aged ladies here rock some serious alterna-style.

I'm delighted to report I live in the land of middle aged ladies who wear dresses and Docs, and I HAVE BECOME ONE OF THEM! Its hella cute. I love it, and it makes people at my corporate HQ scared of me, which is an added bonus.

Its not insane, it absolutely has a long and unpleasant history. Its taking influence from a culture without giving credit to where it came from, and without pointing people in the right direction when they ask. Its saying "look at this cool thing that I do!" without acknowledging that there are other people who…

Off limits? Off limits how? Like, don't incorporate musical styles that has an origin from anywhere on content of Africa into any music created by white folks? No jewelry design? No fabric design, patterns, or colors? No sculpture or painting styles? You cut artists off at their knees when you state that they…

Is that the fault of the wearer or the audience? I'm on the level with this question, I'm not asking it to be a jerk. What happens when the wearer genuinely likes a thing (lets say a sari and not a bindi, to take the religious weight out of it) and thinks they look good in it and its comfortable to wear — should…

I can't afford to be too dickish about it, I also non-conformed with my friends (the People In Black in the late 80s/early 90s). They'll grow out of it. As for the flash tattoos, I like them. They'll look at them the way I look back at cutoff jeans with torn black tights under them — silly, but a fun thing to do at…

"Let's all go non-conform together!" is their battle-cry

That's exactly what it is. What's your alternative: "stick to your own kind"? Because that's what it sounds like you're suggesting.

What is racist, the assertion that lots of Asian kids are made by their parents to take classical music lessons? I disagree (first with your definition of "racist" and second with your objection), but then again maybe its an age thing. Just about every Asian person that I know in my age cohort took a classical…

The bindi one is just ugly, its way too big. A small one would have been pretty.

The blood of grumpy middle aged people shaking their fists at kids of today. Its what keeps her skin so smooth and dewy.

Has she replaced her eyebrows with stickers?

All of us, as humans, are a product of cultural drift and exchange, for pete's sake. My ancestry is largely Irish and yet: "Irish" knotwork art? Viking. "Irish" red hair? Viking. "Irish" dancing? French. "Irish/Scottish" bagpipes? Turkish. "Irish" fiddle? North African. "Irish" stout? North African. None…

Or even more simply, its pretty and you like the way it looks on you.

So what? Are people from one ethnic background forbidden from enjoying artifacts from cultures nowhere in their immediate lineage? Someone go tell all those little Asian kids being forced to take violin lessons — I'm sure they'll be thrilled to get their Saturday mornings back, although their parents might be kind…

People keep using the phrase "cultural appropriation" when it really doesn't apply. Cultural appropriation is not "person with ancestry from one part of the world wears/plays/sings/paints/likes things that are worn/played/sung/painted/liked by people with ancestors from another part of the world." That's just a…

These people are such babies. SUCH BABIES! Its like kids running away from each other on the playground and giving cootie-shots when someone accidentally touches a member of the opposite sex. Ridiculous.

I’m not sure Americans are proud of it, more like we see what the alternative was and if you’re talking about loss of life both military and civilian, a land invasion would have been orders of magnitude worse.

I'm astounded that this needs explanation. How fucked up does a country have to be if someone in KENYA, where there have been multiple mass-casualty terrorist events in the last year, is offering their sympathy on how fucked up your country is? Answer: extremely fucked up.

I think that was the point.