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Originally Posted by Johny Joe Hold
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Is that minimalist blackface, the black rouge, the idiotic mouth paint? Say if someone decided they were Chinese. In the cultural appropriation community it would be confronting (for others) to see them altering their appearance by slicing eyelids or dyeing and straightening the hair, we are told, and pretending to be Chinese just as if they'd blacked up with boot polish and painted on an idiotic white mouth to claim they were black.
How is a "different" sex different? Painting their faces up exactly like blackface but with different boot polish and a different (usually red) idiotic mouth? How is it different from pretending to be black or Chinese?
This is why there's no drag queen story hour at Freehold public libraries. We respect differences whether black or Chinese or red Indian or let's face it Russian or Egyptian or anything else. Even if they do have Coptic popes or wriggling dragons it's their culture and our place is to save them from it. Not to appropriate it.
It's all about respect.