I'd take it much more personally if I didn't watch you do it to the article quoted in the OP, as well as other articles you've posted in the past.
You are obsessed with the idea of 'authenticity', even when something has never proclaimed itself to be 'authentic', even though the idea of 'authenticity' is practically meaningless.
So, go ahead and do your 'authentic' yoga and be smug in the knowledge that other people are 'doing it wrong'.
(That is, if your white guilt will allow you to do yoga).
Which people? You seem to object vehemently to the author wanting yoga to be something different than what it is in the class she attended.
Um, no. I object to her wanting all yoga classes in Australia to be 'authentic' because otherwise the widdle baby would feel 'marginalised' and 'othered'.
Because if this woman were attending an 'authentic' yoga class, she'd
still feel bothered that other non-brown people are doing something that they call 'yoga' differently in their own time and own space, and her widdle baby fee-fees are hurt because she's a whiny entitled brat.
You are incredibly naive.
And you're incredibly condescending. Next.
I know my
own fucking mind better than you know my mind, Toni.
It was never in question. Not by me and not by the author. Unlike you, I believe the author is just as entitled to express her opinions and her thoughts. I think she did a better job backing hers up than you did yours, but that is my right as well.
Excuse me,
where do you get the idea I think she's not entitled to express her thoughts?
Please note: she is not calling people who practice yoga as it is done in classes in Australia wrong or stupid nor is she saying that people aren't allowed to do what they like. She is simply expressing how disconcerting it is to walk into a class that is so vastly different than the yoga she grew up with. She went into the class hoping to connect with part of her culture. She found something else entirely.
Well walking into an Australian yoga class expecting to find her version of 'authentic' yoga means not only is she a whiny brat, she's an idiot, too.
What side is that? That she's entitled to her own perceptions? I am always on the side of a person being entitled to his or her own perceptions.
Whoever said people weren't entitled to their own perceptions
Oh, just for fun: Did you know that there is a chain (of course it is a chain. This is America dammit) of restaurants that are supposedly Australian-themed?
I didn't know.