And the men who enable them by pretending to be into it just for sex are just as bad

  • Whodonedidit [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Right, but I guess the picture gets a bit muddled when you have an oppressive/genocidal culture destroying and othering another culture and then turns around and uses their victims' practices/regalia as a costume. People of that latter group may want to hold on to a part of their identity that was being stamped out.

    Also if there are people who have a custom or ritual that they think is special and want to keep something sacred to themselves, then maybe let them have it