There's a really awful film (you can watch on youtube) called The White Maasai. It's gross. White lady goes to Africa, marries a Maasai then decides that what they need is their own shop and lots of alcohol and screw their own traditions. And the local priest thinks it's great and that she's so much better than other…

I'm ready for the phrase "keep it classy" to go away. You can criticise someone for being sizist or whatever without resorting to entrenched classism.

I can't figure out how any of this stuff works. How are people posting on GroupThink? If there are directions out there, someone link me because my google-fu let me down on this one.

Love her. I want Monae to be the first black James Bond.

I'm kinda with you. After hate-watching it a few times, it's growing on me. I think if I wasn't looking at it through racist-twerk-coloured glasses, it would look different. I'd be thinking, "This is so camp. All that's missing in this video is a black velvet cowboy hat and it would sit perfectly in the tradition of…

Why? That's the only question I have about all this. But then the answer occurred to me: She wants to be Rihanna. The haircut, the lipstick, the sexy-druggy image. She wants to be Rihanna. That's why she's up on that wrecking ball naked or rolling around in her underwear. Speaking of which, 2:20, is it just me or…

I was sent to pray-the-gay-away type counseling for wanting to be a boy when I was a kid, so I think we can't just take it for granted that all parents are liberal. A lot of parents out there need to see this kind of story. Also, non-gender-conforming is a good description until the kid is old enough to pick out his…

I didn't see any unicorns.

Too long. Not going to read. The little bits I scanned were dumb. Weird that you would rather blather on for paragraphs at a time instead of just doing some research and finding out about the Indian Arts and Crafts Act, etc. But your old skool trolling tactics were a nice touch. lol

You're so invested in believing that cultural appropriation is not a thing (except when it allows you take shots at Native Americans themselves for wearing cowboy hats) that you would rather type up this long-ass, tone deaf, history-denying comment than to ask google whether the Navajo Nation is the only culture to…

Nah, it's honestly pointless trying to explain stuff like this to someone who thinks that "ill-defined" is the same thing as "completely arbitrary."

Just for shits and giggles, let's take a different tack here. Forget about whatever you've read about cultural appropriation for a minute. Have you ever met someone who has done something you've considered fake? Like, did you ever meet a white guy who is obsessed with Japan, collects Anime and talks endlessly about…

Actually, some cultures do own their own designs. The Navajo Nation, for example, owns the copyrights or trademarks on a lot of traditional Navajo designs or motifs. So if you use one without their permission, they can and will sue you.

"Phase" is the sad thing about this, though. Miley can have a gangsta phase, then she can go back to being white country girl or glamorous actress, but most people who are typically read as "ghetto" are going to be read as ghetto for the rest of their lives. Their accents, level of education, income are going to…

Can you do a ventriliquist act?

It's kind of like this. I don't like war. But if we're going to have a military, I want to see women in there. I don't like beauty pageants. But if they're going to exist, I want to see people of all ethnicities represented with parity and not just one ideal over-represented.

Don't forget the sheep butchering competition. That's my favourite part of Miss Navajo.

Ok. It is interesting. Sorry if I misread you and jumped on you.

I didn't say it was always an item of colonisation, though, did I? Did I say that? Or did I say that "certain kinds of religious garb have been imported into areas of Africa and Asia where other clothing traditions were in place before being colonised by Muslim cultures?"

I'm still not seeing the point of your derail. Are you implicitly denying the religious connotations of Gaga's outfit? Is Gaga merely being practical by dressing for a possible sandstorm? Or are you denying the fact that certain kinds of religious garb have been imported into areas of Africa and Asia where other…