marginalized minority females

Great article. I'm sortof godsmacked with a certani realiziation whilst reading your words. I think alot of your experience my be chalked up to immaturity. Sheer immaturity of the men involved feeling they have the right to heavy handedly interact with the world the way they do. There is a very real sense of entitlement. Men seem to feel they have an innate right to the world. This isn't inherent in all, but you might see it in some of the immature types who aren't willing to actually act civil, as society dictates. Society is a choice that not everyone participates in. Ultimately the abrasive nature of these people will come to haunt them, either in their lifetime, or in their legacy [im someone who lightly entertains the notion of karma].


In order to successfully interact with society, you have to be willing to allow yoruself to in a way be a bit more open and disarming. Otherwise if you aren't then you are essentially rigidly being abrasive to every person you meet. You shouldn't be an obstacle for other people to overcome, human interaction should be a smooth process. Not everyone learns this growing up, Not everyone's taught this. But I feel when everyone tries to operate on this level less laws are broken, less feelings are hurt.

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I'm going to go ahead and say that the poster is literally just a reference to a very good john lennon song. and i think that as an english major and a guy who grew up in a family that didn't allow "bad words" i can never really be for the striking of a word from use. it goes to peoples freedom to express themselves. in this case the word is pretty much historical at this point, playing a major role in african american identity and the freedom movement in the united states. i understand people not wanting to be exposed to the word, perhaps because they feel its directed at them, but i feel like when we can't even examine the word then things are going way too far. to understand it we need to be familiar with it. if we dont, not only may we forget the word, but the mistake of it's creation. and then we are doomed to create another such word. lets actually try to enlighten ourselves, rather than get caught in cages. thats just my opinion though, and clearly an unpopular one to have.

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i might be the nly person who feels this way but i think that people are definately NOT mocking native art to use a symbol they've seen and be artistic with it. reverence to the point of restriction, and business that is never allowed to sell anything that like... fucking does whatever they do.

a company does what they can to make ap rocut but they won't sell anything people won't want to buy. there is a real market for tehse things; are you going to fault these usbcultures and their providers for offending you? does their existence offend you? perhaps you feel as if you "own" these symbols, that they are only for the natives and not for all peoples. THAT is a bigoted view.

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