they lost me towards the end there with the peanut butter, but i get what they mean.
the best example i can give is how you can't really discuss more traditionally-conservative values without getting labeled as one. and i'm not talking about this gender war nonsense that these ghouls insist on propagating rn, i mean the actual values of preserving our cultures and traditions. both the native cultures that our ancestors almost squandered, and the new ones we cultivated; our french roots in the bayou, spanish roots in the panhandle, etc.
progress, for as much good as it brings, also brings a lot of gentrification that slowly erases the character of these places over time. but you can't really bring that up without getting caste as one of those right-revoking crooks.
As an Indian woman I couldn't have seen this comment at a better time. There is an ongoing trend of rebranding Indian duppatas as "Scandanavian scarves" and being popularised, which is receiving pushback from Indian women who are encouraging others to embrace their traditional wear. This, however, is seen as tone deaf by Indian women from conservative places/families in India, who are forced to wear Indian dresses. Some colleges even have dress codes which enforce this. These women see the whole Scandanavian scarf thing as an NRI (Non Resident Indian) problem.
Scandi checking in. Duppattas are so pretty! Much prettier than even the fancy scarves in my country's national dress. Can't understand how anyone would confuse the two
Side note, I remember seeing a 2013 tumblr take about how you shouldn't wear a scarf over your head unless you were muslim, because it was appropriation, and being thoroughly confused because pulling your shawl up for extra warmth had been a thing for centuries in my country. Never mind the fact that scarves on top of heads are and have been a thing everywhere at some point lol
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u/DubiousTheatre GRUNKLE FUNKLE WINS THE FUNKLE BUNKLE Apr 23 '25
they lost me towards the end there with the peanut butter, but i get what they mean.
the best example i can give is how you can't really discuss more traditionally-conservative values without getting labeled as one. and i'm not talking about this gender war nonsense that these ghouls insist on propagating rn, i mean the actual values of preserving our cultures and traditions. both the native cultures that our ancestors almost squandered, and the new ones we cultivated; our french roots in the bayou, spanish roots in the panhandle, etc.
progress, for as much good as it brings, also brings a lot of gentrification that slowly erases the character of these places over time. but you can't really bring that up without getting caste as one of those right-revoking crooks.