Ordinary Banana

even though I have not eradicated it from myself

That is a weird peeve for you. I'd have expected you to be battling essentializing tendencies instead :D

Oh wait, that's the same thing, nvmd

the problem is "essentializing" is a close relative of "compression"

This is an example that really annoyed me...in an attempt to compress what 'bindi' signifies, it essentializes it http://www.teenvogue.com/story/coachella-cultural-appropriation …

oh man now I want to do those for generic pop cultural fashion things

A part nat-am white woman once tweeted with zero irony, "don't use 'spirit animal', that's appropriation, use a word like avatar instead' :D

yeah I remember that - essentializing in the sense of fixing meanings and making them legible