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Re: Dress decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 22, 2021, 9:39 pm
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And don't even get me started on the further Western inferiority
called:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_cleaning
[quote]Dry cleaning still involves liquid, but clothes are
instead soaked in a water-free liquid solvent,
tetrachloroethylene (perchloroethylene), known in the industry
as "perc", which is the most widely used solvent. Alternative
solvents are 1-bromopropane and petroleum spirits.[1][/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachloroethylene
[quote]The International Agency for Research on Cancer has
classified tetrachloroethylene as a Group 2A carcinogen, which
means that it is probably carcinogenic to humans.[10] Like many
chlorinated hydrocarbons, tetrachloroethylene is a central
nervous system depressant and can enter the body through
respiratory or dermal exposure.[11] Tetrachloroethylene
dissolves fats from the skin, potentially resulting in skin
irritation.
Animal studies and a study of 99 twins showed there is a "lot of
circumstantial evidence" that exposure to tetrachloroethylene
increases the risk of developing Parkinson's disease ninefold.
Larger population studies are planned.[12] Also,
tetrachloroethylene has been shown to cause liver tumors in mice
and kidney tumors in male rats.[13]
...
Tetrachloroethylene exposure has been linked to pronounced
acquired color vision deficiencies after chronic exposure.[22]
...
Tetrachloroethylene is a problematic soil contaminant because
its density causes it to sink below the water table, inhibiting
cleanup activities.[/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Bromopropane
[quote]In the EU, 1-bromopropane has been classified as
reproductive toxicant per Registration, Evaluation,
Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals, which makes it a
"substance of very high concern".[11]
...
In 2013, a peer-review panel convened by the U.S. National
Toxicology Program unanimously recommended that 1-bromopropane,
be classified as reasonably anticipated human carcinogens.[15]
...
Reported symptoms of overexposure affect the nervous system and
include confusion, slurred speech, dizziness, paresthesias, and
difficulty walking, unusual fatigue and headaches, development
of arthralgias, visual disturbances (difficulty focusing), and
muscle twitching. Symptoms may persist over one year.[9] Other
symptoms include irritation of mucous membranes, eyes, upper
respiratory tract, and skin, as well as transient loss of
consciousness.[7] Loss of feeling in the feet, an example of
paresthesia, is colloquially called "dead foot" by workers who
suffer from it.[5]
...
Animal studies of 1-bromopropane have showed that it is a
carcinogen in those models.[7] Rodents exposed to 1-bromopropane
developed lung, colon, and skin cancer at higher rates.[6]
...
Stratospheric ozone layer damage
...
According to United States Environmental Protection Agency, the
ODP is 0.013-0.018 in the US latitudes, and between 0.071-0.100
in tropical latitudes.[17][/quote]
See also:
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Re: Dress decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 1, 2022, 8:33 pm
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Since I mentioned the hand dryer over here:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/decolonized-housing-(america-edition)/msg10370/#msg10370
and tumble driers above, I should also mention that hair dryers
(obviously also of Western origin) are similarly wasteful, as
well as unhealthy:
HTML https://headandshoulders.com/en-us/healthy-hair-and-scalp/hair-care/how-blow-drying-hair-damages-your-scalp
[quote]Blow drying is known to damage your hair. The heat from a
dryer can disrupt your hair cuticles and can also put the scalp
under strain.
Heat damage on your scalp
When you’re blow drying your hair, that’s not all you’re drying
out.
When you blow dry your hair, you’re instantly heating the
moisture in both your hair and your scalp.
This causes a knock-on effect:
Water inside the hair fibre can turn to steam and create
permanent damage blisters
The heat can dry out the scalp[/quote]
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/HairDryer.jpg
WTF is wrong with Westerners? (Answer: they are Westerners.)
By the way, dress decolonization isn't just about clothes; we
can also discuss the inferiority of Western hairstyles here.
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Re: Dress decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 3, 2022, 9:04 pm
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Let's keep going:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_comb
[quote]A hot comb (also known as a straightening comb or
pressing comb) is a metal comb that is used to straighten
moderate or coarse hair and create a smoother hair texture.[1] A
hot comb is heated and used to straighten the hair from the
roots. It can be placed directly on the source of heat or it may
be electrically heated.[2][left][/left]
...
Parisian Francois Marcel Grateau is said to have revolutionized
hair styling when he invented and introduced heated irons to
curl and wave his customers' hair in France in 1872. His Marcel
Wave remained fashionable for many decades. Britain's Science
and Society Library credits L. Pelleray of Paris with
manufacturing the heated irons in the 1870s.[4]
...
Potential consequences
It is not uncommon to burn and damage hair when using a
traditional hot comb. A hot comb is often heated to over 65
degrees Celsius (149 degrees Fahrenheit), therefore if not
careful severe burns and scarring can occur.
The hot petrolatum used with the iron was thought to cause a
chronic inflammation around the upper segment of the hair
follicle leading to degeneration of the external root
sheath.[21]
In 1992, a hot comb alopecia study was conducted, and it was
discovered that there was a poor correlation between the usage
of a hot comb and the onset and progression of disease. The
study concludes that the term follicular degeneration syndrome
(FDS) is proposed for this clinically and histologically
distinct form of scarring alopecia.[22][/quote]
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Re: Dress decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 7, 2022, 3:25 am
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/beijing-olympics-ceremonies-uniforms-deemed-231414370.html
[quote]During the medals ceremonies, the Beijing Olympics
organizers said that staff will don three designs featuring
“traditional Tang dynasty fabrics and other traditional Chinese
cultural elements.”[/quote]
Oh, really?
[img width=1280
height=678]
HTML https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIAtTxiVcAICfFL?format=jpg&name=4096x4096[/img]
[img width=1155
height=1280]
HTML https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIAtVaXVgAIF87y?format=jpg&name=large[/img]
[quote]“The dress shows the Chinese charm with modern and simple
techniques,” the committee wrote.[/quote]
No, it doesn't! These are wholly Western clothes in idea, with
merely tasteless "Chinese" tourist junk pasted on top! Note the
long (leather? certainly not cloth) boots (with high heels for
the women - see model furthest to the right of the top picture).
Note the sexual dimorphism of the collar (centred for men, left
over right for women) and the torso shaping (straight down for
men, widening below the waist for women). Note the Santa
workshop hats. Note the gloves. Note the puffy sleeves. Note the
high jacket cutoff of the model furthest to the left of the top
picture. This summarizes how deeply the Eurocentrist rot has
eaten into China: that which is actually uniquely Western it
normalizes as "modern", while what it calls "Chinese" might as
well be a self-insult.
HTML https://smallimg.pngkey.com/png/small/129-1297667_clip-free-stock-collection-of-free-failing-clipart.png
It would be bad enough if they were consciously deciding to be
Western, but this is worse: they cannot get out of the Western
framework even when they are trying to!
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Re: Dress decolonization
By: guest55 Date: January 7, 2022, 9:18 pm
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Iran claims the "mullet" is a western hairstyle. I would argue
that it is not....
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Re: Dress decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 10, 2022, 1:22 am
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Success:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-schools-rethink-gender-based-160100723.html
[quote]Texas Schools Rethink Gender-Based Dress Code Policies
After Discrimination Claims Raise New Legal Issues
Hope Cozart was perplexed when she received a letter from her
son Maddox’s school in April telling her he needed to cut his
hair because it was too long. Even so, she obliged: She took
Maddox to get a haircut, which consisted of shaved sides with a
little more hair left at the top. Cozart would braid or plait
her son’s hair to keep it out of his face.
But school officials from the Troy Independent School District,
where Maddox was enrolled at Raymond Mays Middle School, outside
of Temple, were still unhappy with the new cut. He was
disciplined for breaking his school’s dress code, which at the
time prohibited male students from wearing their hair in a
ponytail, bun or top knot. Maddox was placed in in-school
suspension for more than 10 days and later in lunch detention,
Cozart said. Her daughter, who had a similar hairstyle, never
faced any issues.[/quote]
Which proves that the dress code was never motivated by
practical considerations, but solely by Western expectations of
sexual dimorphism accentuation.
[quote]“He was getting pulled out of class daily, sometimes by
multiple teachers, and examined like he was an object,” said
Cozart, noting that her son is biracial and that his hair style
relates to his Black culture.
Cozart’s experience is part of a series of recent conflicts
across the state over school dress codes, some of which have
turned into civil rights court battles over gender and race.
In the Houston area, a lawsuit filed against Magnolia ISD in
October accused the district of violating Title IX and students’
14th Amendment protections by prohibiting male students from
wearing long hair. This month, the district’s school board
reached a settlement agreement and voted to eliminate its
gender-based policy on hair.[/quote]
This is a defeat for Western colonialism and a victory for
America. I hardly need to remind everyone that in pre-colonial
times, long hair (including mullets!) was the American standard
for males as well as females:
[quote]This year, the ACLU of Texas has sent at least two
complaints to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil
Rights concerning male students of Native American heritage
being punished for wearing their hair long, which aligns with
their cultural and religious beliefs, according to the
organization.[/quote]
Like so many other issues, hairstyle can unite all victims of
Western civilization against our common oppressor:
[quote]Mahogane Reed, an attorney with the NAACP’s Legal Defense
Fund, said the 2020 case of the Black male students who were
disciplined for wearing dreadlocks at Barbers Hill ISD
illustrates how sometimes students are caught at an intersection
of identities and can be affected by school dress codes that
don’t account for cultural intricacies.
...
Binary dress codes have also presented a dilemma for LGBTQ and
nonbinary students such as Danielle Miller’s fifth grade child,
Tristan, who is nonbinary and one of the seven plaintiffs in the
lawsuit against Magnolia ISD.
“When I explained that we would have to adhere to a boy’s dress
code [to Tristan], it was just met with complete trauma, and I
realized that we weren’t going to be cutting their hair and
we’re going to have to do everything we had to to go ahead and
fight this because it’s not OK,” Miller said during a media
briefing with the ACLU.[/quote]
Finally, let us recall how they used to treat us not so long
ago:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalping#Continued_Indian_Wars
[quote]In 1851, the U.S. Army displayed Indian scalps in
Stanislaus County, California. In Tehama County, California,
U.S. military and local volunteers razed villages and scalped
hundreds of men, women, and children.[47]
Scalping also occurred during the Sand Creek Massacre on
November 29, 1864, during the American Indian Wars, when a
700-man force of U.S. Army volunteers destroyed the village of
Cheyenne and Arapaho in southeastern Colorado Territory, killing
and mutilating[48][49] an estimated 70–163 Native
Americans.[50][51][52] An 1867 New York Times article reported
that "settlers in a small town in Colorado Territory had
recently subscribed $5,000 to a fund ‘for the purpose of buying
Indian scalps (with $25 each to be paid for scalps with the ears
on)’ and that the market for Indian scalps ‘is not affected by
age or sex’." The article noted this behavior was "sanctioned"
by the U.S. federal government, and was modeled on patterns the
U.S. had begun a century earlier in the "American
East".[53]: 206 
From one writer's point of view, it was a "uniquely
[s]American[/s]" innovation that the use of scalp bounties in
the wars against indigenous societies "became an indiscriminate
killing process that deliberately targeted Indian non-combatants
(including women, children, and infants), as well as
warriors."[53]: 204  Some American states such as
Arizona paid bounty for enemy Native American scalps.[54]
[/quote]
NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
Related:
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Re: Dress decolonization
By: Zea_mays Date: January 11, 2022, 12:09 pm
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Lol.
The double standard is the point of course, but I will also
point out how Boris's hair is at least a departure from the
excessive grooming standards of high-maintenance Western
hairstyles which were popular from the late 1800s to 1950s.
[img width=915
height=1280]
HTML https://i.redd.it/5sut3o18k4681.jpg[/img]
In the Romantic era in the mid-1800s, it wasn't uncommon for men
to have low-maintenance and "unprofessional" hairstyles:
HTML http://www.americancivilwarstory.com/images/311xNxhessler1857.jpg.pagespeed.ic.0BOzv-MQpA.jpg
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/RobertCornelius.jpg/585px-RobertCornelius.jpg
Boris would appear even less respectable if his hair looked
"professional", like this:
HTML https://i.pinimg.com/736x/1e/96/58/1e965835658501107ed0177e3fb2c9a5--pomade-hairstyle-men-mens-hairstyle.jpg
Or this:
[img width=1280
height=853]
HTML http://media.vanityfair.com/photos/55f99f43200c34353591eea7/master/pass/t-donald-trump-27-celebrities-hair-color-video.jpg[/img]
[img width=1280
height=720]
HTML https://www.insideedition.com/sites/default/files/images/2020-07/071620_mary_trump_intv_web.jpg[/img]
HTML https://compote.slate.com/images/0c496dfa-94ab-407d-a0d1-c162851dfb82.jpg
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Re: Dress decolonization
By: bondburger Date: January 12, 2022, 11:43 am
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What footwear would you recommend wearing? Especially for if
doing lots of walking. At most shoe shops I tend to have
difficulty finding boots that are both small enough and
leather-free, so I don't have much flexibility getting footwear
conventionally (I do have leather-free boots, but they're
probably not ideal since they're the only affordable ones I was
able to find). Is there a nostalgic approach to this?
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Re: Dress decolonization
By: guest55 Date: January 13, 2022, 7:48 pm
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For Americans wouldn't shoes such as the Converse Chuck Taylor
All-Stars work?:
[img]
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/A_classic_Black_pair_of_Converse_All_Stars_resting_on_the_Black_%26_White_Ed._Shoebox_%281998-2002%29.JPG[/img]
Since Converse is now a subsidiary of Nike we can also be sure
that none are being sold in Israel anymore....
[quote]Converse started making an early basketball shoe in 1917
and redesigned it in 1922, when Chuck Taylor asked the company
to create a better shoe with more support and flexibility. After
Converse added Taylor's signature to the ankle patch they became
known as Chuck Taylor All Stars. By the 1960s the company had
captured about 70 to 80 percent of the basketball shoe market,
but the shoe declined in popularity during the 1970s, when more
and more basketball players wore other brands of shoes. Chuck
Taylor All Stars enjoyed a comeback in popularity in the 1980s
as retro-style casual footwear.[3][4][/quote]
[quote]Ad from 1920 for the forerunner of the Chuck Taylor All
Star, Converse "Non-Skids."
Marquis Mills Converse founded the Converse Rubber Shoe Company
in 1908 in Malden, Massachusetts. In 1917 the company designed
the forerunner of the modern All Star shoe that it marketed
under the name of "Non-Skids." The shoe was composed of a rubber
sole and canvas upper and was designed for basketball
players.[citation needed]
In 1921, Charles "Chuck" Taylor, an American semi-professional
basketball player, joined Converse as a salesman.[5] Within a
year of Taylor's arrival, the company had adopted his ideas for
improvements to the shoe's design to enhance its flexibility and
ankle support. The restyled shoe also incorporated a distinctive
All-Star logo on the circular patch that protected the ankle.
After Taylor's signature was added to the ankle patch as his
endorsement, they became known as Chuck Taylor All Stars, the
first celebrity-endorsed athletic shoe.[6][7]
To promote sales of Converse All Star shoes to basketball
players, Taylor held basketball clinics in high school and
college gyms and YMCAs all across the United States and taught
the fundamentals of the game.[8] During the 1926–27 season
Taylor also served as a player-manager of the company-sponsored
basketball team called the Converse All Stars. The Chicago-based
touring team was established to promote sales of the company's
All Star basketball shoes.[9]
Numerous professional basketball players were soon wearing All
Stars. The shoes also became popular among younger basketball
players, including athletes in the Olympic Games and American
soldiers in the 1940s. Converse All Stars were the official shoe
of the Olympics from 1936 to 1968.[6][10] During World War II
All Stars were the official athletic training shoes of the U.S.
armed forces.[6][/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Taylor_All-Stars
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Re: Dress decolonization
By: SirGalahad Date: January 15, 2022, 5:05 pm
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@Mazda My main issue with Converse is that they're such a pain
to put on. Especially the ones that go up to the ankle, like in
the picture you showed. I kind of avoid shoes with shoelaces in
general. I prefer sandals, shoes with velcro straps, or even the
Vans slip-ons, which are very convenient:
HTML https://scene7.zumiez.com/is/image/zumiez/image/Vans-Classic-Slip-On-Black-%26-White-Shoes-_266638.jpg
Maybe I'm just lazy when it comes to shoes, and maybe I'm just
overly passionate about a minor annoyance, but I feel like
shoelaces were a pointless invention. Plus, if I'm in a hurry, I
have to fight to loosen the shoe enough for me to shove my foot
into it
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