NOT IN SO MANY WORDS

I move in thought I cannot speak.

[1softy]

[pure]

as a general rule. if what we’re calling ‘cultural appropriation’ sounds like nazi ideology (i.e. ‘white people should only do white people things and black people should only do black people things’) with progressive language, we are performing a very very poor application of what ‘cultural appropriation’ means. this is troublingly popular in the blogosphere right now and i think we all need to be more critical of what it is we may be saying or implying, even unintentionally.

[pyrrhiccomedy]

There is nothing wrong with everyone enjoying each other’s cultures so long as those cultures have been shared. 

Eating Chinese food, watching Bollywood movies, going to see Cambodian dancers, or learning to speak Korean so you can watch every K drama in existence is totally fine. The invitation to participate in those things came from within those cultures. The Mexican family that owns the place where I get fajitas wants me to eat fajitas. Their whole business model kind of depends on it, actually. 

If you see something from another culture you think you might want to participate in, but you don’t know if that would be disrespectful or appropriative, you can just…ask. Like. A Jewish friend explained what a mezuzah was to me, recently. (It’s the little scroll-thing near their front doors that they touch when they come into their house. It basically means “this is a Jewish household.”)

“Oh, cool,” I said. “Can I touch it? Or is it only for Jewish people?”

“You can touch it or you can not touch it,” she said. “I don’t care.”

“Cool, I’m gonna touch it, then.”

“Cool.”

It’s not hard.

You want to twerk, twerk. I’ve never heard a black person say they didn’t think anybody else should be allowed to twerk. Just that they want us to acknowledge that they invented that shit, not Miley fucking Cyrus.

[notcayleb]

this is a good post.

[maskedriderbiocore]

Thank you, I was trying to sort this out in my head but you explained it very well.

[habibialkaysani]

#free exchange of culture is great - taking that culture without invite and pretending yours is an original take#(worse still profiting off it)#is cultural appropriation (by @gnimaerd)

[cityelf]

I can’t honestly be the only one who gets really disappointed if their calendar picture for the month of their birthday is rubbish, right?

[dapperdevon-blog]

i have been waiting for this post my whole life

[mockingjay42-deactivated2021010]

But the perfection when it is just your favourite picture in the calendar

[nellyben]

I like how everybody is paired off haha

[larssonadam]

#this looks more like an awkward sixth grade slow dance than it does hockey

[itsacpsideblog]

I FINALLY FOUND OUT WHY THIS HAPPENS. You see this all the time when there’s a fight or a scrum and suddenly everyone pairs up with a member of the opposite team and they just sort of …hold each other.

Someone on reddit asked about it. And it turns out there’s a logical-ish reason:

all of the other players pair off with their man to prevent anyone else entering into the fight … so it’s a form of self policing. 

[…] The players basically want to prevent 2 on 1, etc. fights and by finding a “hugging” partner so there’s no ganging up on one guy, even on accident. They do it because it’s fair. And it’s kind of cute sometimes.

so now we know! it’s fair…and cute.

[animentality]

Aw best part is no ones left out at this dance

[castiel--for--king]

[legotheeggo]

[arrghigiveup]

#hockey hugs #more or less #:)))))))) #where’s that one of Karlsson and Mike Green #that one’s priceless

=DDD

[thatsawrap-yall-deactivated2018]

#pure

[goaliesarethebest]

NHL: You need to prevent other player’s from joining in the fight, make sure to hold them back

Hockey players, hugging: Got it.

[carefreebomb]

[ohdoe]

hell yeah 

[woarm]

hell yeah

[shoopsi]

hell yeah

[sadvampirx-deactivated20170728]

hell yeah

[nonbinarytrash]

hell yeah

[iunosteel]

hell yeah

[sundrenched-smilez]

hell yeah

[izanagi-senpai-deactivated20201]

hell yeah

[dankmemesreasonforliving]

[turing-tested]

this is literally so fucking funny

[turing-tested]

[turing-tested]

im really not even mad because only LGBT people can be this funny so i know my $5 is in good, gay, hands

[m0onbean]

tag yourself!

socks: confused about the future, messy buns, bad sleeping habits, loves fantasy, bad dad jokes, ambivert, underappreciated

hoodie: loves winter, indecisive, good at comforting friends, very self-conscious, just wants to cuddle, movie critic

sweatpants: the type to blast music in headphones, dislikes children, klutz, long video calls, the friend whose laugh is funnier than the joke

turtlenecks: philosophical conversations, social anxiety, close circle of friends, spends more time home than outside, thoughtful

skirts: online shopping, probably has a sketchbook, draws “tattoos” on skin with pen, big dreams and big goals, afraid of failure, likes attention

[bklynnico]

kinda cool to think how someone somewhere is having the best day of their life today. someone’s hearing “i love you” for the first time today. someone’s gonna meet the love of their life today. someone’s gonna get the job of their dreams today. it’s someone’s best day today. and guess what binch? tomorrow it could be ur best day so keep going

[tsunderestimated]

I havent had hot cocoa in YEARS

[sealion-six-deactivated20190829]

Well it’s probably cold now

[tsunderestimated]

[utwo]

Treehouse in Woodstock

© morriarti.com

[awholevarietyofstuff-deactivate]

I want it 😍

[neverthere12345]

[ladaleda]

“So I’ve been trying to get it made since then.”

[dillpicklestanley]

Miracles happen.

[targent]

what is it about being on a plane that makes people go buckwild for ginger ale literally everyone be ordering it

[campbell-soup]

ginger ale is supposed 2 help settle ur stomach if ur nauseous so ppl get it on planes if they get planesick

[transhumanisticpanspermia]

ginger grow in the ground so it keeps you connected to god’s earth while you’re thousands of feet up in the Heathen Tube

[kuulam]

[frauleinninja]

this post has fucked me up more than any other on this site

[orangevelvetspacequeen]

Okay but no, do you understand what happens to a caterpillar once it’s in its cocoon? It completely turns into goo. That’s right, GOO. The damn thing dissolves and the reforms into the butterfly. Even crazier, the wings of the butterfly are already inside the caterpillar, ready to go, just waiting to float around in some goo and then be a beautiful butterfly. The craziest part?!? A study was done where some caterpillars were exposed to a certain smell and then given an electric shock so eventually the caterpillar associated the smell with the shock. Well after those little hairy noodles came out of the their cocoons as butterflies, they exposed them to the smell again and the butterflies reacted super negatively, as if they were being shocked. A.K.A. not only is there wings floating around in that goo cocoon, there is also a brain, the same, unaltered brain as the caterpillar. The butterfly can recall its days as a caterpillar even after basically being turned into soup. And then it all somehow gets its shit together to be a stupid majestic little beast, and I can’t even remember where I put my damn phone.  

[shmidny]

Country roads

Take me home

To the place

I belooong~

WEST VIRGINIA

[asillyandrandomname]

If you come across as mysterious or enigmatic and are somewhat attractive people will try very hard to get to know you and you’ll mistake this as genuine interest in your being but it’s really just selfish curiosity and when the mystery is gone so is the curiosity

[chrsdoe]

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