Hypocritical Much?

 Cultural appropriation. 

I had never heard of this before. I guess because I'm so NOT "woke". (They can't even use correct grammar??? WOKE?? Ugh.) Anyway...I digress. I literally had to look it up. So, according to the F&B Report in Goodhousekeeping Magazine ( I know!) cultural appropriation is: "When a superior race (I didn't know there was one) owns another race's attributes, most of the time for aesthetics. It becomes especially offensive when they don't respect the ancestry or when they are praised for how they utilize these attributes while the minorities, who are known for them, are shamed."

M'kay. I have a WHOLE lot of issues with this statement. Oh, and the stuff in parentheses is mine. First of all, I didn't realize there was any one superior race. If you go by the innuendo in that statement, they are referring to white people. Which is a bunch of horse crap. Last time I checked, I wasn't an Arian or a Nazi (although I have been called a Nazi).  

According to this article, Halloween costumes that are offensive and fall under the title of "cultural appropriation" are things like dressing like a gypsy, a geisha, or a Rastafarian. 

{crickets}

SERIOUSLY???  So if I dress up as a gypsy, I'm offending all the gypsies in the world? I would never dress up like a geisha, but it certainly isn't because I would be worried about offending the Japanese. I wouldn't do it because I am too fluffy to pull it off! I personally would take it as a complement if someone dressed up like me! 😁

 Another "style" that is considered cultural appropriation is dressing in a "chola" style. Flannel shirt buttoned at the top, gold hoop earring, baggie britches hanging off the butt; this is a "modern subculture of Mexican American women." So the singer/actress Rhianna dressed as described above, and was called out for it. Julianne Escobedo Shepherd (whoever that is) said this: "Privileged people want to borrow the 'cool' of disenfranchised people of color, but don't have to face any of the discrimination that accompanies it." 

Um, isn't Rhianna a person of color? What if she just thinks the style is cool? Is she supposed to do a dissertation of "chola" culture if she dresses this way?  Does ANYONE else think this is as ridiculous as I do?? I mean come ON people.  The article I read told me that one way you know that you're being culturally appropriate (which, doesn't appropriate mean acceptable? Shouldn't it be MISappropriate? or INappropriate?) if you use something sacred to another culture, such as a religious symbol, in a flippant way. How many Christian symbols have been used flippantly? Burning Bibles? Oh, that's freedom of speech. Somehow. Taking Jesus and saying He was really gay? Oh, that's personal opinion and part of the LGBT however-many-letters-come-after-that society, so don't EVEN go there.  What a JOKE. Hypocritical much?

That's enough of a double standard to stop right there...But I'm not going to...(C'mon did you really think I was done??) I know I am going to piss some people off, and that's okay.  Because ANYTHING goes in this world Except being a white Christian. Shame on us. Are you KIDDING me? So, the LGBT+++++++++ community, including transgender people (as in a man pretending to be a woman, but not giving women props for the perfect make up look, or perfectly matching handbag),  isn't *gender* appropriation because it just "doesn't make sense", according to what I've read. 🤔  Why? Because transgender people were born in the wrong biological body.  I'm sorry, but you were born in the body God wanted you to be born in. Period, that's it, that's all, end of story.

Oh, and that group of "untouchables" includes people who don't believe in conformity. Well, then I guess no one can hate on ME, because I'm the biggest NON conformist you'd ever meet! This article is calling "people who don't believe in conformity" victims of this appropriation, and yet, * I * would be considered an offender, just for writing this post, and expressing MY opinion! Because when * I * say something politically incorrect, I'm not a nonconformist, I'm culturally or gender appropriating.  Hypocritical much?

Well here's the thing. I refuse to kowtow to society because that's what I'm "supposed" to do. I refuse to change what I believe in because someone at some brain-washing university is telling me that I'm not playing nice. I will NEVER water down my beliefs, make excuses for them, shy away from them OR the Bible because society is changing, therefore I must change as well. 

This world is SO upside down. Right is wrong, and wrong is right. Evil is good and good is evil. The Bible should never and will never conform to society, and thank God for that!  It makes me SICK when "Christian" churches have homosexual pastors. They explain away the behavior and allow them to be THE LEADER OF THEIR CHURCH. Y'all. That is just plain wrong.Would you let someone you KNEW was committing adultery be the pastor of your church? Would you let an unrepentant murderer to lead? It's the SAME thing.

Before I wrap this up, let me be clear: SIN is SIN. Homosexuality is mentioned right along with stealing, lying, gossiping, envy, lust, adultery.... I'm not ranking sin. I'm not judging homosexuality or transgender or whatever as worse than anything else.  And whether you agree or not, I'm not judging people. I'm calling out sinful behavior. I am a sinner. We ALL sin and fall short of the glory of God. ALL of us. But the whole LGBT++++ stuff is SO prevalent in society, and everyone has just decided it's fine. Well it's not fine with me, and it's not fine with a lot of other Jesus followers. Being transgender is *celebrated*. So mutilating your body, dressing like the opposite sex, men wearing make up and heals and fake boobs is something to rejoice in? 

Not this girl.