Jaysus.

You know, when I found out that Gwen Stefani was being creepy and fetishising/appropriating Japanese street fashion (Visual Kei, which she white!named Harajuku) I found out because an article told me about it.

It didn't have to explain to me about cultural appropriation or othering or fetishism, it just had to tell me 'she pays four japanese women to follow her around and pretend they don't speak English.' I figured the rest out myself! Of course, I didn't know about this before the article. Because I could give an entire rat's ass about Gwen Stefani.

So the fact that Snarky doesn't need to say, point to a picture of Lady G. wearing a bad parody of a Romany outfit or sporting a meat 'war bonnet' is disingenuous. I don't need to be educated in cultural studies-- but if you're going to go around calling her names, I want a crash course in Lady Gaga. Unless the one magazine cover I glanced at on Go Fug Yourself was THE DEFINING MOMENT OF HER CULTURAL APPROPRIATION that I just should have picked up on.