# “White girl, take OFF your hoops!” **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 14, 2017, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-girl-take-off-your-hoops/782200 "2017-03-14T23:43:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-girl-take-off-your-hoops/782200/1 "2017-03-14T23:43:40Z")
Now! - Thieving, grabby white women. Can’t take your eyes off 'em for a second. If you do your entire cultural closet is raided. [“White girl, take OFF your hoops!”](http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/latina-students-white-girl-take-off-your-hoops/#gTaeLJphCFzhWpiB.99) > [@](#): > > That was the message spray-painted on the “free-speech” wall of a dormitory by a group of Latina students at Pitzer College, a pricey private university in Claremont, California, that charges $66,192 a year for tuition, fees, room and board. > [@](#): > > Now, the “women of color” responsible for the new message are demanding white females remove their hoop earrings, “winged eyeliner” and gold nameplate necklaces – which they described as symbols of “resistance.” They accused white people of “appropriating styles … that belong to the black and brown folks” and “exploiting the culture. [Pitzer College Demographics](http://pitweb.pitzer.edu/admission/explore/at-a-glance/) [10 Tricks for Perfect Winged Eyeliner | STEPHANIE LANGE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBb05b9Kdo0) ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-girl-take-off-your-hoops/782200/2 "2017-03-14T23:48:35Z")
Fine, and in fairness, women of color should not wear bras. Upper middle class white girl invention. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-girl-take-off-your-hoops/782200/3 "2017-03-14T23:52:57Z")
I’m looking forward to the day when College/Uni students have moved on to the next thing to be idiots about. Can we go back to marching for nuclear disarmament instead? Now there’s a cause that’s kinda topical… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-girl-take-off-your-hoops/782200/4 "2017-03-15T00:00:11Z")
If I’d seen a message like that back in my college days, and if I’d worn earrings anyway, I’d go right out and buy some hoops. Maybe I’d even wear them if I hadn’t worn ear jewelry before. PC has gone too far. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-girl-take-off-your-hoops/782200/5 "2017-03-15T00:04:05Z")
This just in: College students are idiots, film at 11. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-girl-take-off-your-hoops/782200/6 "2017-03-15T00:23:01Z")
When the worst thing you can come up with to complain about is what other people are wearing in their ears, it’s time to shut your mouth and be grateful that you don’t have any real problems. Otherwise people might get the impression that you are just a rich, entitled, spoiled brat, and kind of stoopid too. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-girl-take-off-your-hoops/782200/7 "2017-03-15T02:08:58Z")
In this world where everyone seems to live in everyone else’s pocket, it seems absurd to think that one group owns a style of anything to the point of saying that other people shouldn’t wear it. This includes hair, clothing, jewelry, and anything else. If the point is to make while folks remember that people of color are still discriminated against, then talk about that directly, because that is something that makes sense to get angry about. It doesn’t make sense to get angry about earrings. Not to me, anyway. On the other hand, someone who can make sense of this point of view is welcome to step in and set me straight if they feel like it. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-girl-take-off-your-hoops/782200/8 "2017-03-15T02:19:53Z")
They don’t have a problem with white people “exploiting the culture” by appropriating their music? That’s been going on since the 19th century. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-girl-take-off-your-hoops/782200/9 "2017-03-15T02:20:56Z")
Brown, non-asian, women need to give up pizza, french fries, driving, flying, etc. stuff that’s not invented by their culture. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-girl-take-off-your-hoops/782200/10 "2017-03-15T02:42:06Z")
And remember, ¡ix-nay! on the white frat boi parties with tequilas and those little sombreros. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-girl-take-off-your-hoops/782200/11 "2017-03-15T04:26:12Z")
In the '60’s, black were invited into the mainstream. They brought hoops along, and now they are here, for everybody, just like everything else in the mainsteam, that they once celebrated being a part of. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-girl-take-off-your-hoops/782200/12 "2017-03-15T05:40:49Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > In the '60’s, black were invited into the mainstream. They brought hoops along, and now they are here, for everybody, just like everything else in the mainstream, that they once celebrated being a part of. [And further to that…](https://www.rubylane.com/item/645543-KC-03235/1900s-Italian-Gypsy-Oil-Painting-Original) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-girl-take-off-your-hoops/782200/13 "2017-03-15T06:10:33Z")
Okay, I’m going to wear the biggest pair of hoop earrings I can find tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-girl-take-off-your-hoops/782200/14 "2017-03-15T06:28:38Z")
If you are not from Xingjiang, you have no business wearing trousers. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-girl-take-off-your-hoops/782200/15 "2017-03-15T06:45:04Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > If I’d seen a message like that back in my college days, and if I’d worn earrings anyway, I’d go right out and buy some hoops. Maybe I’d even wear them if I hadn’t worn ear jewelry before. > > PC has gone too far. Small groups demanding silly things that literally everyone realizes is stupid? That’s supposed to be PC going too far? They’re college students. They’re pushing boundaries as adults. It’s what has always happened and will continue to happen. They will have stupid ideas that will get shot down. But that’s how we discover new ideas that aren’t as bad. I will admit they need strong teachers for some sort of History of Social Justice class. And some rhetoric classes would be good. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-girl-take-off-your-hoops/782200/16 "2017-03-15T07:04:59Z")
This is an example of why I think the meme that “PC has gone too far” is mostly a conservative boogeyman. A handful of teenagers over a thousand miles away from me said a dumb thing. I’m not about to freak out over that. The only reason you heard about this in the first place is because some hack journalist thought it would make good clickbait. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-girl-take-off-your-hoops/782200/17 "2017-03-15T11:55:13Z")
I await Peggy Lipton’s response. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-girl-take-off-your-hoops/782200/18 "2017-03-15T12:23:36Z")
White women have been wearing hoops since the Bronze Age, if not the Neolithic. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-girl-take-off-your-hoops/782200/19 "2017-03-15T12:30:51Z")
Forgot the [cite](https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=66u24WAyO_YC&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&dq=neolithic+hoop+earrings&source=bl&ots=sznf4BihSx&sig=p2Hf5-8HHyzKhEwKSVE_LV1EKAM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwims8rMwNjSAhUsKsAKHYpMA_4Q6AEINTAD#v=onepage&q=neolithic%20hoop%20earrings&f=false). And on page 95: > [@](#): > > Long before the Etruscans, earrings were popular in other parts of Europe. Earrings were worn during the Caucasian Bronze Age, which dates back to 3600 BCE. Bronze earrings have also been found in burial sites in Western Europe that date to approximately 1350 BCE ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-girl-take-off-your-hoops/782200/20 "2017-03-15T12:33:12Z")
I’d be happy too see everyone take OFF their big ol’ tacky hoops. Not really a good look on anyone. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-girl-take-off-your-hoops/782200.md?page=2)