Oh for the love of Pete.

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION PART II! ELECTRIC BUGALOO!

I think the really terrible part is the people that are defending it (saying it's totes fine that she took something that is a large part of Mexican culture and made it into a Halloween costume, because she lives in SoCal and obviously that means that she's ~*~in touch~*~ with the culture) are the sort that jump on people who get tattoos in other languages (specifically, the kanji tattoos that are so popular now) as being cultural appropriation.

Also kind of love the people that are going, "WELL, IF YOU HAVE DREADLOCKS, YOU CANNOT ARGUE THIS" when the history of dreads is pretty convoluted and there are some white cultures that in fact wore them, so uuuuuugh, stfu.

I think the most frustrating part is that it's spilling over into my LJ friendslist, so I can't post about it there without people hopping on me (someone that IS Latina) about how obviously it's not meant as a slam or anything, and she at least did it prettily, so it's not true appropriation. I also don't want to get called out again for apparently "looking white" (I, uh, don't) and how do I justify IDing as Latina/Chicana when I am clearly not (...wut). I also don't want to be called out on the fact that no, my family doesn't celebrate it (my mother doesn't hold with the whole, "unhealthy Mexican obsession with death", and that's one aspect of my culture that's been stomped out of me—thanks Mom), but yes, I'm still offended. It shouldn't matter whether or not I do celebrate it, or how I relate to it, it's still fucking cultural appropriation, and yeah, it's STILL OFFENSIVE.