Tilly
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Where will this stupidity end???
'A style that links so heavily with identity is not taken seriously until it is seen on a white woman'
Along with hair scrunchies, ripped jeans and body glitter, hoop earrings are, to many people, simply a current fashion trend.
To others, however, they carry a lot more meaning, and one woman has now called out hoop earrings as a form of cultural appropriation.
Ruby Pivet is a Latina writer who has suggested that hoop earrings should be seen in the same light as bindis, braids and Native American headdresses. ...
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“In the grand scheme of things, hoop earrings may seem insignificant,” Pivet says. “But seeing white women wearing them is unnerving. White girls did not start the ‘trend’ of over-sized hoop earrings and yet they’re the ones being praised for donning the ‘edgy’ style.
“Because it’s cute and aesthetic when they wear hoop earrings, but it’s ghetto and hard for us to be taken seriously when black and brown bodies wear them,” one of the students responsible for the writing, Alegria Martinez, wrote on her Instagram account.
“White girls, take off your hoops, stop calling yourself mami and start respecting our existence.”
People are now saying hoop earrings are cultural appropriation
Hoop earrings date back at least as far as ancient Egypt.
Idiots!
'A style that links so heavily with identity is not taken seriously until it is seen on a white woman'
Along with hair scrunchies, ripped jeans and body glitter, hoop earrings are, to many people, simply a current fashion trend.
To others, however, they carry a lot more meaning, and one woman has now called out hoop earrings as a form of cultural appropriation.
Ruby Pivet is a Latina writer who has suggested that hoop earrings should be seen in the same light as bindis, braids and Native American headdresses. ...
...
“In the grand scheme of things, hoop earrings may seem insignificant,” Pivet says. “But seeing white women wearing them is unnerving. White girls did not start the ‘trend’ of over-sized hoop earrings and yet they’re the ones being praised for donning the ‘edgy’ style.
“Because it’s cute and aesthetic when they wear hoop earrings, but it’s ghetto and hard for us to be taken seriously when black and brown bodies wear them,” one of the students responsible for the writing, Alegria Martinez, wrote on her Instagram account.
“White girls, take off your hoops, stop calling yourself mami and start respecting our existence.”
People are now saying hoop earrings are cultural appropriation
Hoop earrings date back at least as far as ancient Egypt.
Idiots!