{"id":38258,"date":"2017-04-24T04:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38258"},"modified":"2017-04-23T08:58:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T12:58:36","slug":"todays-study-in-problematic-issues-for-teen-vogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/04\/24\/todays-study-in-problematic-issues-for-teen-vogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s study in &#8220;problematic&#8221; issues for <em>Teen Vogue<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.advicegoddess.com\/archives\/2017\/04\/22\/silly_teen_vogu.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Alkon<\/a> fisks a recent <em>Teen Vogue<\/em> piece on <em>soi-disant<\/em> &#8220;cultural appropriation&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Silly Teen Vogue-ers, Fashion *Is* Appropriation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This bit &mdash; from Teen Vogue &mdash; is hilariously sad and sadly hilarious:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>In our new column Don&#8217;t Do It Girl, Jessica Andrews explores the cultural appropriation epidemic at Coachella.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>EPIDEMIC! Like AIDS, Zika, or Ebola!<\/p>\n<p>Fashion always has been about appropriation. Appropriating style and appropriating culture. Those lace-up-the-ankle sandals? Ancient Rome!<\/p>\n<p>Yet, do you see Italian kids mewling that you stole their culture? Of course not, because Italians, generally speaking, are exuberant people who really know how to live life.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, back here in America&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The kids growing up now, especially in the United States, are the freest people in human history &#8212; both as individuals and through the technology that removes the drudgery that&#8217;s been a constant companion for humans throughout the ages.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, their response to all this unparalleled freedom is to try to control other people&#8217;s behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Fashion policing, in this case. Here, from Andrews story on that EPIDEMIC of appreciation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Even when people feign ignorance, there&#8217;s little excuse. In the past, I&#8217;ve worn a Pocahontas costume for Halloween. It&#8217;s a mistake I regret, and I&#8217;ll never do it again knowing how hurtful it is.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, please. I grew up Jewish. If you pretend to be a character from Fiddler on the Roof, should I take to bed and cry for a few days?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>With appropriation being such a huge conversation these days&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So much talk&#8230;so little reasoning<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Like fashion, appropriative hairstyles are now ubiquitous at Coachella. Cornrows or box braids are not a &#8220;hot new festival trend&#8221;; black women have been wearing them for centuries. When outlets cover the hairstyle as if it started with Kylie Jenner, it&#8217;s not appreciation; it&#8217;s erasure. Those celebratory headlines are yet another reminder that black hairstyles are only acceptable when they&#8217;re removed from actual black people.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do you need to be high to write for <em>Teen Vogue<\/em>? It&#8217;s a fucking hairstyle. Women wear it because they think it will look good on them. If they&#8217;re white with dark hair, they&#8217;re probably wrong (nothing like rows of scalpage showing through to make a woman&#8217;s head remind us of freshly plowed fields). Women with big honking faces like mine don&#8217;t look so hot in them, either.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Unbeknownst to some Coachella attendees, there&#8217;s a stigma associated with cornrows and braids when black people wear them.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unbeknownst to a fucking lot of us, I&#8217;d guess.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Alkon fisks a recent Teen Vogue piece on soi-disant &#8220;cultural appropriation&#8221;: Silly Teen Vogue-ers, Fashion *Is* Appropriation This bit &mdash; from Teen Vogue &mdash; is hilariously sad and sadly hilarious: In our new column Don&#8217;t Do It Girl, Jessica Andrews explores the cultural appropriation epidemic at Coachella. EPIDEMIC! Like AIDS, Zika, or Ebola! 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