Quote Originally Posted by glam View Post
the fact is that it's an example of cultural appropriation, reinforces stereotypes, and is pretty offensive - you saying "omg get over it, it's just for fun" doesn't somehow make it harmless.

in the tribes that use them, the headdresses are an important spiritual and political symbol that only certain members of a tribe can wear. so no, they're not worn just "for fun" and to "stomp around together" like the way white people do when they wear them as a "fashion statement" at music festivals.

on top of all the bullshit that Native Americans have had to endure in their history since white people showed up to kill them and take their land, this little act of cultural appropriation is just the cherry on top.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_bonnet
Hi, @glam.
For an expanded view on the native Americans, read "Empire of the Summer Moon", which tells the story of Cynthia Ann Parker, who was kidnapped by Comanches and was also the subject of John Ford's great movie "The Searchers".
The book is both graphic and harrowing and changed my views on primitive tribes altogether, and not for the better. I actually had to stop reading in a few places and take a break.
My financial advisor is 50% Lakota, 100% intelligent and ILI, and he occasionally wears a headdress for fun, at get-togethers that look like Burning Man to me. Those pictures he showed me are crazy fun, very different from what his ancestors were doing. Culture matters. His four office walls are each painted a different color according to the points of the compass, with one color for the spirit world, the other three for I forget what. He's good at what he does. He's also pretty cool, just like Lana's boyfriend.