Oh, you're taking about the sheer stocking-looking kind. Yeah, idk, white people don't really wear those. I don't know if it's offensive as much as it'd just look weird because you don't have black person hair?
― mh, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
I'm weirded out by du-rag. I always see do-rag, as in it keeps your hairdo in check
― mh, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
:}
― 乒乓, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
also wondering where these white people with kimonos are wandering around
― mh, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
eminem fan forums have discussed this very issue
― Mordy, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
also wondering where these white people with kimonos are wandering aroundhttp://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md73v3Cyxm1ru41p9o1_500.jpg
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
I responded by saying that white people wear saris and kimonos and all kinds of other shit from other cultures all the time-- and at appropriate public events, for that matter.
Is this about you wearing a du-rag at an "appropriate public event?" Concert?
― mh, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:13 (eleven years ago) link
duragpolice
― buzza, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not going to run out and find pictures, but pretty sure well-known fashion houses have developed kimonos for consumption by the Western public.
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
anyway, that's not the point. It doesn't really matter if white people wear kimonos or not. Is it racist for a white person to wear one?
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:16 (eleven years ago) link
history has taught us that it's cool for a white person to do pretty much anything they want to, don't fret about it imo
― 乒乓, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
i'd say that white cultural tastemakers have done a lot to propagate (or steal, if you prefer) other cultures' texts/fashion/music/etc, there's always kind of a sheepishness about it too
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
My local pub is having a New Year's Eve curry night with Indian-themed fancy dress suggested. The barman agreed with me that this was a poor idea, but I didn't determine whether he agreed with my unspoken subtext that it was a bad idea because it was (at the very least highly likely to end up being) fucking racist wtf.
Sorry, as you were.
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
btw, just to clarify-- I do not nor do I plan to wear a du-rag in public. The discussion came up as a result of a friend's "wear-a-funny-hat" party.
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.lib.unc.edu/rbc/keats/img/keats-hand-on-chin.jpg
― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
you realize this shit has been getting called out as racist for decades tho right
― passive-aggressive dn change (zachlyon), Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
um, not to suggest that du-rags are inherently funny, derp derp
sure. everything involving multiple cultures is called racist by somebody somewhere.
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:23 (eleven years ago) link
and I guess that kind of points out the ridiculousness of a thread called "is it racist", since it's fairly obvious that there isn't ever a straightforward answer to the question.
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:24 (eleven years ago) link
dü-rag
― GIMME SOME REGGAE (DJP), Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:24 (eleven years ago) link
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6220/6364635019_1aed588e3e_z.jpg
― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
poliopolice, huskers or mats?
― 乒乓, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
keffiya.jpg
― the late great, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
mats no question
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
nothing against the gays and their gay fashion or whatever
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
:-}
― 乒乓, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
would it be racist if i dressed like bob mould?
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.boston.va.gov/images/OPT_man_sits_with_his_chin_on_his_hand.jpg
― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
OUT
― GIMME SOME REGGAE (DJP), Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
So where do dreadlocks come into this? White w/dreads = always racist?
― nickn, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:45 (eleven years ago) link
are those rolling hip-hop threads racist?
― Mordy, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
i find it really, really, really hard to agree to the idea that that some group can/should 'own' anything, whether it be a philosophy, word, fashion or anything else.
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
it understand that many signifiers and texts are connected to systematic oppression but it seems silly to me that someone can have full rights to dreadlocks.
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:49 (eleven years ago) link
it = i
i think it's pretty okay to wear hats and such
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Thursday, 27 December 2012 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
I sometimes use crutches because I like Itzhak Perlman.
Is this polioist?
― mh, Thursday, 27 December 2012 02:51 (eleven years ago) link
imo dreads actually have a better claim to being culturally bound than the do-rag, which has been worn by people around the world for ages 'n' ages
― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 27 December 2012 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
You have dreadlocks
― Dom Passantino
― buzza, Thursday, 27 December 2012 03:14 (eleven years ago) link
dreads also have a better chance of being super nasty because you can't throw them in the washing machine
― GIMME SOME REGGAE (DJP), Thursday, 27 December 2012 04:28 (eleven years ago) link
at least not without screaming
or you rig up some sort of James O. Incandenza situation w/ it and jam yr head inside
― autistic boy is surprisingly good at basketball (silby), Thursday, 27 December 2012 04:29 (eleven years ago) link
My white Swedish ex-gf got dreads after we'd been dating a few weeks and it was almost a deal-breaker. She'd lived in South Africa for about a year prior to that and almost exclusively dated Iraqis before me, so I felt uncomfortable trying to judge the racial aspect of her hair, having grown up in the American south. I did think it looked stupid and hated how it would scratch my face whenever I tried to spoon her, though.
― Fetchboy, Thursday, 27 December 2012 05:14 (eleven years ago) link
man I used to get crushed out on women with dreads. RIP the 90s
― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 27 December 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
Yep, remember that myself. Never actually liked the look per se, but something about those drug-connected, sexually liberated space cases always got me too.
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 27 December 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
'something'
― banlieue jagger (darraghmac), Thursday, 27 December 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
how do you reconcile "I never liked the look" with "always got to me"
like, I've never been sexually attracted to camel toe and can't think of a single instance where I was like "that looks terrible but man I wish I could get me some of that toe" so I am curious how you navigated this apparent contradiction
― GIMME SOME REGGAE (DJP), Friday, 28 December 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
Darragh already got it on target, IMO
― mh, Friday, 28 December 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
1. Drug-connected women.2. Sexually-liberated women.3. New-agey space cases. 4. Has dreadlocks.
A venn diagram of the aforementioned clusters would reveal that the circle depicting "has dreadlocks" is almost entirely subsumed within the overlap of circles 1, 2, and 3. While I don't like dreadlocks, they are highly correlated to the other attributes, and the most visually obvious symbol that the subject possesses the other (more important) desired attributes.
― Poliopolice, Friday, 28 December 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
in other words, 'something'
― Poliopolice, Friday, 28 December 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
are you new-agey, polio police?
― how's life, Friday, 28 December 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link