in before someone cries about braid appropriation.

....kaaaayy, well I'm going to continue being a contrarian cunt, so, you know, deal with it.

*cringe* I'm always one to jump on the Devil's Advocate side of things (cause an echo chamber is boring), but this? This is just indefensible.

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Thank you for responding, and I apologize for my shitty tone earlier. For what it's worth, I think we're both correct.

This is the position I wanted to avoid, the idea that the white power structure is the only power structure. I mean have you not noticed the economic downturn over the past few years? The rise of international billionaires? The population explosion in India and China? The fucking internet and it's mass dissemination…

aww, I bet you thought you were reaaal clever busting out that SJW buzz word and linking to a non sequitur, TL;DR article. (cant even be bothered to link to the original The Atlantic article?). I'll give you an internet point for the pithy retort, but you gotta step up your 'A' game. This ain't tumblr honey, so, you…

lol sorry, I don't consider patronizing concern and arbitrary cultural exclusion as determined by self hating "progressives" (aka much of gawker and tumblr) "respect".

jesus fuck, JUST WEAR THE DAMN BOOTS. hell, buy them from them aborigines if it would make you feel better, I'm pretty sure they'd by flattered by an outsider appreciating their craft and supporting them monetarily.

...riiigghht, so its NOT cultural appropriation when someone (a white man!! ooga booga!) plucks a significant cultural artifact from an oppressed/nearly eradicated culture to use for his own message, (regardless of what the artifact meant to the oppressed culture), however it is the height culture stealing/racial…

Don't ask these questions here, because no one here has the answers beyond person biases, dem feelz, white guilt, parroting something their radfem anthropology professor told them, and social justice zeitgeist.

Holy crap yes. There's definitely a photo of me floating around facebook in more or less the exact same outfit. And yes, I did get the idea from this video.

HA! I remember when she first came out, and being utterly confused that this 13 year old was more fashionable/hip than me, a 19 year old college sophomore with her first apt. Heh, I have a very distinct memory of sitting on my bedroom floor, alone, stoned outta mind on Friday night, thinking "this kid's life is far…

Jeeesus. The expectations, the insecurities, the senseless gender roles—all if this seems so very exhausting. Praise be that my husband (as well as myself) have no fucks to give about who or how the money is earned, so long as its there to pay for the things we need.

If this is what casual sex is all about, DAMN, I'm glad I got married young. None of this sounds fun OR casual.

Hm, I can't help but feel that credit is a sucker's game in the US, "the only winning move is not to play!".

Aw, my mom and I bond over gossip mags. :( But in our defense, when my mom came to this country she latched on to gossip mags to teach her pop culture nuances, colloquial phrases (that she wouldn't have learned in her ESL classes), and all things Americana. With time the habit stuck, then I came along and she used the…

Aww this is how we found our kitty, thankfully it was over the summer in a farm town with lots of field mice. Long story short, my husband and I were subleasing for the summer from some people we only kinda knew. They moved out, we moved in two weeks later only to discover there was a cat there the entire time. She…

Hmm, I wanted to avoid teh haterz bandwagon, but if thats her work out tip, with the implication that it leads to an ass like that, I'm going to have to call bs on her ass being 100% natural.

OOF. I have similar issue with the healthcare site.