Cultural Appropriation Cracker.

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mymothertongue:

Yes, yes, yes to the message, but…

how can you be sure the the person pictured isn’t Native? I hesitate. Braids, one feather, and one pink line of paint isn’t exactly “obvious” appropriation to me. I’d love to find the image source!

TW- MISCARRIAGE, SEXUAL ABUSE, EFFECTS OF SEXUAL ABUSE

 WHETHER SHE IS OR ISN’T NATIVE IS FUCKING IRRELEVANT.

WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK WHEN THEY SEE THIS? WHY IS IT TAGGED ‘NATIVE’?

BECAUSE COLONIALISM TAUGHT WHITE PEOPLE (AND NATIVE PEOPLE ALIKE) THAT UNLIKE THEIR TRADITIONAL DICHOTOMY, NATIVE WOMEN WERE TRASH: EASY, DISPOSABLE, GOOD-FOR-NOTHING… BECAUSE THAT’S HOW THE EUROCHRISTIAN MENTALITY FUNCTIONS. WOMEN ARE USELESS TO THEM, AND SINCE THEY CAME HERE AND NOTICED THAT WOMEN HELD POSITIONS OF POWER AMONG ABORIGINAL CULTURES, THAT THEY WERE WELL-RESPECTED AND WERE VIEWED AS AUTHORITY FIGURES, IT WAS NECESSARY TO CREATE A STEREOTYPE TO STOP THIS FROM CONTINUING, AND TO EASE THE PROCESS OF ASSIMILATION. HENCE, THE ‘SQUAW’, THE SEXUALIZED, WANTON, USELESS NATIVE WOMAN, BECAME THE IMAGE OF ALL NATIVE WOMEN. THAT’S WHERE THIS COMES FROM, THAT’S WHERE ENDEMIC SEXUAL VIOLENCE TOWARDS NATIVE WOMEN COMES FROM, IN FACT IF YOU GO TAKE A LOOK DEEPLY AT ANY ABORIGINAL RELATED TAGS ON HERE, I PROMISE YOU’LL FIND MANY SCANTILY CLAD NON-NATIVES WITH FEATHERS AND BUCKSKINS, AND SOME EVEN HAVE THE CAPTION ‘SQUAW’ UNDERNEATH THEM.

SO TO RECAP: IT DOESN’T MATTER IF THE GIRL IN THE PHOTO IS NATIVE OR NOT- SHE IS PERPETUATING A DESTRUCTIVE STEREOTYPE.

AND IF NONE OF THE OTHER IDIOTS WHO CLAIM TO ‘NOT CARE’ AND NEED TO TELL US ABORIGINAL WOMEN ON HERE, WHO HAVE PREVIOUSLY BEEN OR HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS (MY MOTHER, FOR EXAMPLE, WHO WAS SO BADLY DAMAGED BY THE ABUSE SHE SUSTAINED THAT SHE HAS HAD 8 MISCARRIAGES IN HER LIFE AND NEARLY DIED GIVING BIRTH TO MY BROTHER) WHO HAVE BEEN ABUSED THAT WE NEED TO ‘SHUT THE FUCK UP AND STOP BEING A LITTLE BITCH, STOP CARING, YOU DON’T MATTER, NONE OF YOU MATTER’

O.K.

1. This is the tumblr machine. No one is attacking you personally, or your mother. Also, all those CAPITAL LETTERS make your contribution, such as it is, difficult to read.

2. The fact that horrible things happened to your mother is horrible, but it doesn’t affect whether or not you’re making any sense.

3. This photo seems to be claiming that dressing in a sexualized version of Native American-style clothing leads to the rape of Native American women. That’s the message. I utterly reject that message. I’m not sure about the other rape blogs, but I’ve put a lot of time and effort into trying to convince people that the way a woman dresses is unconnected to whether or not she gets raped. I should hope that’s as true for Native Americans as it is for everyone else.

4. If a grown woman dresses in a sexualized version of a schoolgirl outfit, does that lead to increased rates of pedophilia? If you said yes, you’re an idiot and you have no business adopting an opinion on this issue.

5. The sexual assault of Native Americans is a serious problem. It is not connected in any way with people wearing feathers or trying to be cutesy with stereotypical Native American apparel. If you believe that the problem of rape among Native American women is serious, then please offer some serious solutions, because honestly, right now you’re just typing a passionately-held opinion into the tumblr machine.

6. For a start, very much unlike your post, this article from N.O.W. and this article (among literally hundreds of others) do an honest job of nailing down the causes and possible solutions to the very real problem of sexual assault among Native American women. Notice how none of them - NOT A SINGLE ONE - says anything about people wearing Indian-style clothes in a sexually suggestive way. Ask yourself why that might be.

7. If you want to help, if you really want to do something instead of getting angry at some random asshole on the internet, instead of shouting your badly-researched opinions at people, instead of getting into some debate with me that you will lose because I’m smarter than you: don’t answer any more posts, quit getting angry, and send a check to:

Pretty Bird Woman House
P.O. 596
McLaughlin SD 57642

PayPal: littleshield@lakotanetwork.com

It’s a shelter for Native American women who are victims of sexual abuse. It’s run by Native American women, they teach women about their rights and how to prosecute cases, they develop relationships with law enforcement; you know, all the things you and I are not doing. And they sure as hell need money more than you do.

I AM SOOO GLAD YOU’RE SOOOO KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT ABUSE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN AND WHERE IT COMES FROM, TO THE POINT WHERE YOU ‘UTTERLY REJECT’ HISTORY AND THINK YOU’RE ENTITLED TO YOUR OPINION, OR THAT YOU CAN TELL ME WHAT TO THINK AND HOW TO FEEL. 

WAY TO BE OPPRESSIVE. I ALSO REMEMBER YOU CROPPING UP IN SOME OTHER INCREDIBLY RACIST CONVERSATIONS WHERE YOU ALSO FELT ENTITLED AND TOLD SOME OTHER NATIVE PEOPLE ON HERE HOW TO FEEL. YOU’RE RIGHT. MY MOTHER WASN’T A VICTIM OF INCEST BECAUSE OF STEREOTYPES, SHE WAS A VICTIM BECAUSE THE RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SYSTEM LEFT A GAPING HOLE IN HER FAMILY. MY BAD.

BY THE WAY, I STOPPED READING AFTER ‘I UTTERLY REJECT’ BECAUSE APPARENTLY YOU CAN REJECT HISTORY AND STATISTICAL FACT AND SOMEHOW PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSED TO ACCEPT YOUR OPINION. BYE NOW!

OH PS- HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT MY USE OF CAPITAL LETTERS IS… IRRELEVANT, THANKS THOUGH, FOR YOUR INVALID OPINION!

APPLAUSE, IGNORANT WHITE PEOPLE ON PARADE, ONCE AGAIN TELLING NATIVE PEOPLE HOW TO FEEL BECAUSE THAT’S NOT SOMETHING THAT’S BEEN HAPPENING SINCE CONTACT.

aww, how cute. postsatire sticking his head where no one wants him. thank god he’s smarter than everyone (which is totally not a elementary grade insult, oh no).

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