We need to talk about your kitsch problem... - General Tiki

E EnchantedTikiGoth Member Calgary, Canada Joined: Dec 31, 2003 Posts: 355	E EnchantedTikiGoth Posted posted on Fri, May 26, 2017 7:34 AM On 2017-05-26 06:57, Swanky wrote: We should not worry too much about authenticity. Here is the text from the paper: Tiki’s failure lies not in its soft misogyny, cultural appropriation and essentialism, or its willingness to align itself with the all-too-popular, kitschy, or campy forms of culture, but in its inability to act on the nascent counter-insurgency that is evident within its cultures. Concerns with Victorian sexuality and unrealistic expectations of masculinity could be addressed with new expressions of gender and sexuality, perhaps paralleling the metrosexuality and pansexuality trends outside of tiki cultures, as well as with more critical reflections on gender, sexuality, race, and other intersectional and postcolonial issues. So if I understand this word salad correctly, their core complaint about Tiki is basically that its prevailing social attitudes have not fallen in lockstep with the prevailing social attitudes in college social science faculties. Y'know, they tried this on gamers not too long ago and failed spectacularly. Do they really want to bring on "Tikigate"?

On 2017-05-26 06:57, Swanky wrote:
We should not worry too much about authenticity. Here is the text from the paper:

Tiki’s failure lies not in its soft misogyny, cultural appropriation and essentialism, or its willingness to align itself with the all-too-popular, kitschy, or campy forms of culture, but in its inability to act on the nascent counter-insurgency that is evident within its cultures. Concerns with Victorian sexuality and unrealistic expectations of masculinity could be addressed with new expressions of gender and sexuality, perhaps paralleling the metrosexuality and pansexuality trends outside of tiki cultures, as well as with more critical reflections on gender, sexuality, race, and other intersectional and postcolonial issues.

So if I understand this word salad correctly, their core complaint about Tiki is basically that its prevailing social attitudes have not fallen in lockstep with the prevailing social attitudes in college social science faculties. Y'know, they tried this on gamers not too long ago and failed spectacularly. Do they really want to bring on "Tikigate"?

Post #776303 by EnchantedTikiGoth on Fri, May 26, 2017 7:34 AM