tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post4733205438550222223..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: Tomahawk Tassels stereotypes Native womenRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-80515532087448505732013-03-13T03:33:17.787-07:002013-03-13T03:33:17.787-07:00There's a huge difference between making fun o...There's a huge difference between making fun of Indians and making fun of people who are ignorant of Indians, Tes. Tassels is doing the former, not the latter.<br /><br />White Anglo-Saxon Protestants are the dominant power in America. There's a huge difference between mocking the majority and mocking a historically oppressed minority.<br /><br />You're an ignoramus if you think Indians are protesting merely because they're angry at everything. Educate yourself about the documented harm of Native stereotyping:<br /><br />http://www.bluecorncomics.com/stharm.htmRobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-75985060480433555842013-03-11T14:26:39.083-07:002013-03-11T14:26:39.083-07:00I think white privilege has a lot to do with why i...I think white privilege has a lot to do with why it's not racist for you to do Scottish numbers but it is for Tomahawk to do Indian numbers. If Tomahawk Tassels was accountable to Cherokee community, she wouldn't have automatic license to do what she's doing. By ignoring the opinions of Native community, she's basically erasing again a people who were nearly totally decimated by the racist understanding of Native people which made colonization possible. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-75298619958207562342013-01-30T01:25:41.185-08:002013-01-30T01:25:41.185-08:00good god, I can't believe the shite people say...good god, I can't believe the shite people say about her. I've had the chance to perform with Tommy, I even cast her in my show when it was running.<br /><br />Burlesque IS satire! What I find ridiculous in all this is say, given my Scottish heritage, if I were to get on a burlesque stage, do a wee jig (which I can bloody well do), etc. no one would bat an eye! Every culture has been shat on (really...do I need to bring up that mine is finally gaining it's own freedom next year?), each has its own stereotypes...and if we can't laugh at ourselves a wee bit...then we may as well stop laughing.<br /><br />People just aren't happy unless they're angry, you can say I don't understand...but I get it, however, it's just sad to see someone who I've worked with and enjoyed working with being completely trampled for doing something she loves and discovering herself.Tes LaCoilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-7077853829684363452011-10-26T14:08:39.208-07:002011-10-26T14:08:39.208-07:00I knew a lady who made stripper costumes. (She was...I knew a lady who made stripper costumes. (She was too fat to be a stripper herself.) Anyway, we had this conversation:<br /><br />Jana: I'd like your opinions. One of my clients wants a native-inspired costume, and I think it would work. The detached leggings are, what do you call it, fanservice?<br />Me: Yeah, that's the right term. So, you want me to help you make his costume?<br />Jana: It's for a woman.<br />Me: If Indian men's clothes make good stripper outfits, Indian women's clothes don't. How much of a dance can you do to remove one dress?<br />Jana: Well, here's what I have so far.<br />Me: If you can flip up a loincloth and see his, I mean, her business, you're doing it wrong.<br /><br />And it went on like that. As for the dancer herself, I won't say her ethnic background, but she had Clairol-black hair with blonde roots.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com