this perfect moment soon be leaving me

[ivy_chan]

Tomorrow I fly to Belgium. I am...simultaneously hyped, pumped, and full of careful and anal-retentive worry that I might just leave behind something highly crucial. I have carefully placed everything I need on my dresser, and have made a list. (Yes. I really am this insane about traveling. Better safe than sorry.)

brownie_utonium arrived Sunday evening, and I

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[lvsinsanity]

Sounds like you had a blast!

Natives here in Canada are just as badly looked after. As a native myself, I'm third generation, and was basically told there was no point in me getting my status, because I'm a woman, and any child a third generation female has, would not be considered natives.

But my brother, his sons will forever be considered natives.

[ivy_chan]

That fucking sucks.

See, I know that there's a very strict rule in these racism communities about respecting the cultures of others and not imposing white culture on them. But I keep seeing people who seem to believe that feminism and the idea of female equality is white culture and shouldn't be forced on other cultures. I...strongly disagree with this opinion. Culture is a changing thing, responding to the mindsets of the populace. I don't see a problem with changing the culture when they're oppressing and abusing people. (That goes for caste systems, too.) I don't think that's 'white culture' so much as HUMAN EMPATHY.

[lvsinsanity]

Yea, I know... it's just, really ridicules to think that oppression of women is a strictly white thing. There's restrictions to every culture, to every denomination out there. Not just to women either.

My grandmother lost her native status the minute she married a white man, and it took her thirty years to be recognized as a full blooded native again.

It's horrible.

[ivy_chan]

Well, in this case it wasn't oppression of women that was seen as white, but the desire to give women equal status. Female equality itself was seen as white culture. Which is not only ridiculous, but also insulting. It's insulting to compare a concept of basic human rights to, say, an inherently cultural thing like mythology or historical costume. The other thing they called white culture was the emphasis on banning underage sex 'sex with children', because in some cultures, those children are considered old enough. Are we supposed to ignore psychological science for culture?

I maintain that, POC or not, some ethnic cultures SUCK at the treatment of women and gender roles. Native culture is, apparently, one of them.

[ivy_chan]

Iceberry is made of awesome and win. And that museum sounds humongously awesome in a historically fascinating-yet-horrifying way, which makes me wish I was of the age to appreciate a museum like that when I lived in Illinois.

[rainydaymare]

We legalized what?!?!?

...was totally not aware of that. How???

And oh my god. Sticky toffee pudding. Oh my god.

[ivy_chan]

Congratulations! I wish MY state was as cool as yours.

STICKY TOFFEEEEEE. I foodgasmed. I will someday order five of those and inhale.

[rainydaymare]

Ehhh, by the time I am ready to get married it probably won't be legal any more. ...OR I won't be living in New Hampshire anymore lol

Let me know, if you do that, so I can vicariously get my toffee on through you. ...that sounds filthy. XD

[ivy_chan]

Yay, toffee through mind-linked osmosis! That sounds like a feat of GODS!