yeah - sorry I'm still irritated thinking about the tendency to find a particular story about "what made us human"
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even though I have not eradicated it from myself
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That is a weird peeve for you. I'd have expected you to be battling essentializing tendencies instead :D
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the problem is "essentializing" is a close relative of "compression"
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This is an example that really annoyed me...in an attempt to compress what 'bindi' signifies, it essentializes it teenvogue.com/story/coachell
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oh man now I want to do those for generic pop cultural fashion things
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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
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yeah I remember that - essentializing in the sense of fixing meanings and making them legible
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I think before I lived in India I thought bindis had one particular fixed meaning and it was Extremely Spiritual
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What if Chinese people suddenly started agonizing that "good bye" in english comes from "god be with ye" and is appropriative to christians

