You're not from Western MA, are you?

Yes. Welcome. We wear comfortable clothes that look good on our changing/aging bodies, listen to whatever the hell music we want (I was singing both One Direction and the Stray Cats this morning), and shake our heads ruefully at Kids These Days.

I think the sushi-eating falls slap into that definition.

I don't think people are missing your point, I think they're calling bullshit on your point.

What? Its insane for someone like Paul Simon to work with Ladysmith Black Mambazo because... why again? Monstanto? Oil companies? The minerals industries?

I’ve been sitting at my desk laughing over this til I cry. This is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. Madonna, you were edgy 30 years ago. Now you’re just kind of tragic, and I say that as middle-aged lady desperately clinging to my own youth. I’m still deluded about many things, but I have a pretty good sense…

Word. Two weeks ago I switched from my shitty-weather Docs to my nice-weather Chucks and my back hurt for three days as my whole body adjusted to wearing kicks that were not rigid and molded to my feet.

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…