Mastodawn

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https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/behind-the-hood/

I've been thinking about the hoodie recently.

>>... no other garment is so charged, or so fraught, in this country as the hoodie. <<

My own dislike for the garment makes me uncomfortable. How much of my distaste springs from ugly prejudices about race, class, and age buried within me?

Then I start to wonder how much of my agonized reflection is not only an ultimately futile attempt to suppress my own aesthetic responses but also an unproductive focus on the individual psyche rather than on the structures of society.

Working with lots of young men in hoodies prompted these thoughts, as did...

#USCulture #Hoodie #Fashion #HistoryOfDress #Race #Class #Age

Behind the Hood | The Point Magazine

I went running in a hoodie recently and a car swerved too close for comfort.

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Jonathan Emmesedi 18h ago

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...watching this MV, in which the hoodie is conspicuous:

DAYOUNG -- What's a girl to do
https://youtu.be/MfipEXSvtjg?si=ofl7b-ZxGkpgz7Aw

I don't care for the MV, and am reminded of an African American student recently telling me how much she resented Kpop for what she thought of as its muscling in on Black culture.

I don't necessarily endorse her complaint, but her very voicing of it shows something of the rootedness of racial divides in US society and how, contrary to the explicit agenda of the US right and the sub rosa murmurings of some US liberals, the race "issue" is not going to "go away".

#Kpop #Dayoung #WhatsAGirlToDo #Racism #USPolitics