From an article linked to in the original linked in this blog entry: "

Unbeknownst to some Coachella attendees, there's a stigma associated with cornrows and braids when black people wear them. These hairstyles are still being banned in schools — as recently as 2016 — and they're often deemed too unprofessional for work. The same hairstyle is celebrated when other races [read: white people] wear it.

I keep hearing this, but it seems that no one who makes this claim can ever be bothered to prove it. Employers have the right to ban any hairstyle they want to as "too unprofessional for work."

But if there is an employer who is allowing white people to wear cornrows, but not allowing black people to wear the same hairstyle, then you have grounds for a racial discrimination lawsuit.

Cultural appropriation doesn't exist. It's not a thing. People have the right to wear whatever hairstyle they want, or dress however they want or perform whatever type of music they want. If you really have a problem with someone you don't even know personally, wearing a hairstyle that you believe is inappropriate to their race, that is a problem for you and your shrink to get through. It is not up to white people to stop wearing certain hairstyles so you don't get offended.

Really? I thought it looked like one of these

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galea_(helmet)#/media/File:Helmet_centurion_end_of_second_century.jpg

Stop stealing Latin (as in Latins, not Hispanics) culture.

I see a snowflake or two is protesting people dressing as stereotypical Mexicans for Cinco de Mayo. I bet these same folk have no problem wearing green and drinking themselves into a stupor on St. Patrick's Day.
Nothing is too trivial to signal virtue!

I'm torn on this.

I think most things white people appropriate from black people look fucking awful on a white person. So at the end of the day is it really bad when they get roasted for it if it might save my eyes from having to look at those travesties??

I mean what ends up happening is some extremely beautiful white celebrity borrows something culturally black, and looks pretty dope in it. Then everyone copies it but they look awful because they failed to understand the part of the celebrity being beautiful and looking good in anything.

Even though I dont agree with the message I like the end result tbh. Coachella fashion is hideous.

How did humans get it so backward, that women are competing for men? Other species get it right, with the males competing for us. Id say we have monogamy to thank for that, since we outnumber men, but other species are monogamous and the men still compete for the females.

"I think most things white people appropriate from black people look fucking awful on a white person."

Agree. Corn rows on dark hair, especially, with rows of white scalp showing underneath.

And Momof4, this is actually common to all species, competing for men. Men and women both compete for the best mates; they just do it in different ways. Women compete covertly; men compete overtly.

I write about this in a column:

http://www.advicegoddess.com/ag-column-archives/2015/07/beyond-thunderd.html

But while men will sock each other in the bar parking lot (and can sometimes go back in and have a beer), women engage in what anthropologists call "covert aggression" -- attacks that are hard to pinpoint as attacks, like gossip, social exclusion, and stabbing another woman in the self-worth. ("Stabracadabra!" -- you're bleeding out, but nobody but you can tell!)

Psychologist Anne Campbell, like others who study female competition, explains that women seem to have evolved to avoid physical confrontation, which would endanger their ability to have children or fulfill their role as an infant's principal caregiver. (Ancestral Daddy couldn't exactly run up to the store for baby formula.) So while guys will engage in put-down fests as a normal part of guy-ness, even women's verbal aggression is usually sneaky and often comes Halloween-costumed as compliments or concern: "Ooh, honey, do you need some Clearasil for those bumps on your chest?"

The tarted-up put-down is a form of psychological manipulation -- a sly way of making a woman feel bad about herself so she'll self-locate lower on the totem pole. And because men have visually driven sexuality, women specialize in knocking other women where it really hurts -- their looks. Like those supposedly minuscule boobs of yours. (Right...you'll have a latte, and she'll just have another mug of your tears.)

Yes and to add to what Alkon said we are now finding out that not only do the sexes compete against each other for the best mate they also compete against the opposite gender.

There is a biological drive in both males and females to keep the opposite gender in a weaker position so when it comes to negotiating one gender gets more resources than the other. This type of competition is even seen in utero.

Thighs.

A woman's thighs, in that picture.

Ppen: I think most things white people appropriate from black people look fucking awful on a white person.

Amy: Agree. Corn rows on dark hair, especially, with rows of white scalp showing underneath.

To be perfectly blunt, fuck both your opinions. We're talking about freedom of expression and censoring anyone is completely unacceptable. Your personal opinions as to how individual expressions look on certain demographics is wildly, wildly, wildly, irrelevant. It doesn't make it okay to restrict expressions of individuality because you personally don't like them on certain people.

I personally don't care much for rap music, but I'm not going to support any protest or even remain silent over any objection to Eminem or Iggy Azalea performing rap because they're not black.

Besides, black people didn't invent rap. Rap is actually Skeltonic verse, invented by John Skelton, who was tutor to and poet laureate under King Henry VIII.

You don't get to repackage Skeltonic verse, they claim it's something you invented. If it worked that way, I'd take a patent out on the wheel and make a fortune.

Momof4: it is not exactly competition since most of the shaming of too-revealing clothes is done by married women--it is trying to reduce the temptation for their husbands. Most husbands will testify that if they turn and look at a hottie they get an elbow in the ribs. Note that the greatest protests about halloween costumes are about the sexy ones--no one cares about the guy dressing up as a doctor it is the sexy nurse that people (ie women) get upset about.

Ppen,

You just say it looks horrible. Supporting censorship and racism because of fashion sense is a bad choice.

> fuck both your opinions. We're
> talking about freedom of expression
> and censoring anyone is completely
> unacceptable

Censorship is not a factor. Amy's not saying "You can't share those fashion ideas"... She's saying (by proxy) "You look fucking awful."

You seem to understand this, as you acknowledge that it's Ppen/Amy whose expression is in play.

...Because Patrick, you totally said "Fuck your OPINIONS"*, and since when are you arguing that opinions are illegal, Man? Hmm? Since when, dooooood?

Now the great thing about being such an attractive old man, as I am, is that all the lifelong codes of silent human allure are wired into my consciousness in an novel, expository and enriching way. As taut middle age unwinds into relaxed, languid seniority, I know perfectly well that a lot of weird things young women do —tats and piercings most especially, in these decades— are designed rather specifically to repel the erotically inquisitive glances of men my age.

But eventually, y'know, even the little college girls peek out over their emotional fences to see who's out there in the realm of knowingness and interpersonal daring... And that's when THEY chase down MY eye contact. It's a sweet moment for us both!

Take this kid— Sure, yeah, her parents are divorced or whatever, and she's got this grim identity thing cooking, but I can see right through to the verities: She's goth down to the knees, but from there to the floor, she's emulating the 1976 Kiss Tour of North America, the one with the flaming guitar and the confetti.

Fashion, Patrick! Don't be afraid!

*Emphasis: Uncle Cridmo

Some of the comments on that tweet are golden.

Golden but not colorful.

Talking about cornrows on fair-skinned folk.. This is how a Ginger looks with them.

http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Axl-Rose-flaunting-his-colorful-version-of-the-cornrows-style.jpg

It's a fashion joke you sourpusses. It's not supposed to be taken literally.

Plus ya think this obsession with censoring, bullying and dictating who gets to wear what is something new?

That's the whole point of fashion! This is just the teenage modern technological expression of a timeless struggle.

Every famous designer has a reputation for banning, bullying and censoring people they don't see fit to wear their designs. All of them.

I remember when Lagerfeld and his fans were being mega dicks who used to ban and publicly humiliate fat women for daring to wear Chanel.

I cannot believe no one has mentioned Bo Derek and cornrows in the same sentence yet. There you go.

Crid: "I know perfectly well that a lot of weird things young women do —tats and piercings most especially, in these decades— are designed rather specifically to repel the erotically inquisitive glances of men my age."

No shit? I didn't know that. Though I'm old I kind of like the tats, piercings and flamboyant hair colors young women wear these days. They're like walking, talking works of art, and each one is her own little artist. But I don't often say so because it seems like it makes people kind of uneasy. I don't hit on young women, treat them disrespectfully, or entertain unseemly notions. I guess no matter how much time, effort and talent a young woman invests in her appearance, in making herself noticeable, I'm not supposed to notice. So mostly I pretend not to. But they look wonderful.

"How did humans get it so backward, that women are competing for men? Other species get it right, with the males competing for us. "

Yeah, but human females compete for the highest status man. Not saying this to be pejorative; that's just the way it works. M4 knows this because we've discussed it, but for the newbies, women evolved to seek high-status men because that's what gave them and their offspring the best chance of long term survival.