{"id":178,"date":"2004-08-11T09:53:38","date_gmt":"2004-08-11T14:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=178"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:17","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:17","slug":"white_girls_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/11\/white_girls_in\/","title":{"rendered":"White girls in Brooklyn appropriate Saraswati"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\nThe singular invocation they were chanting during their Brooklyn rehearsal began, “Oh lordy, please say it’s not broken, please say she was kidding,” before diverging into specifics:\n\n“And please send me a hot guy who’s young and athletic and not married or secretly gay.”\n\n“But lord, what do I have to do to get a new job and my credit card approved?”\n\n“Am I truly a bad person because I wish my upstairs neighbor would get hit by a truck or struck by lighting every now and then?”\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

from the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n\n

And you know what? I’m fine with that. I know it sounds strange to hear them and see them, but …religions do get appropriated, they’re not the property of one \\’race’. Furthermore, what they’re doing is consistent what \nSaraswati<\/a> stands for; these are artists invoking the goddess of the arts. This is a very different case from the Buddha bar<\/a>, or british sandals with the word OM<\/a> on them (!!) or toilet seats with Hindu gods on them<\/a>, etc. Still, as desi culture spreads, religious symbology will be used by \\’outsiders’ and people are gonna be uncomfortable with it … (but for some reason, they’re fine with all the profanation in the homeland, go figure!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The singular invocation they were chanting during their Brooklyn rehearsal began, “Oh lordy, please say it’s not broken, please say she was kidding,” before diverging into specifics: “And please send me a hot guy who’s young and athletic and not … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}