Get off your sexist high-horse…
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Anonymous asked: Are you seriously fucking suggesting that wearing button up shirts is in any way comparable to misappropriating and homogenizing the dress of oppressed cultures?
Are you seriously fucking suggesting that misappropriating and homogenizing the dress of different cultures is not where 99% of clothing ideas and trends came from in history?
My family has a specific cravat in Croatia once worn by soldiers from our villages going in to battle so that their bodies could be identified later. There’s a lot of ceremony and cultural practice that goes with that. It is now the business tie. It became the business tie without anyones permission, someone saw it and liked it and wore it and changed it and HOMOGENSIED it and APPROPRIATED it. I am not offended because that is what happens, on earth, when cultures mix.
You cannot categorise and separate cultures in to static boxes.
If I want to lay cultural claim to the tie and prevent anyone using it except in the way I see fit, would that make sense to anyone?
There are a million items in our day to day lives which have their origins in a multitude of cultures.
Someone wearing something important to you does not change the personal importance of that item. Holding items sacred is in the mind of the person with those ideas, and does not extend to anyone else.
hol y fUCK literally the only reason we have the variety of clothes we have today is because people saw other cultures - at the time traditional - clothing and copied it and changed it. who has not worn a button up shirt??? who
ever worn a tie? not croatian? you’re a racist.
Wearing an item of clothing belonging to a culture is not always racist. I am all about social justice, but it is literally impossible to draw lines around all types of clothing and which cultures they might have originated from.
ever worn anything with tartan on it?
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Sam Harris has made his ebook of ‘Lying’ free
http://www.samharris.org/images/uploads/LYING.pdf
I was reading his blog today and discovered he’d made it available for download for the rest of the week. It’s in response to recent a journalistic controversy surrounding former New York Times staff writer Jonah Lehrer
Either way, definitely worth the half hour it takes to read.
Religious Right on Dangers of Environmentalism
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Christian Bale just made a special trip to visit the victims of the Aurora shooting. Atheist Bale hasn’t been heard from at all.
Christians: 1
Atheists: 0
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