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metalgirlysolid:

Righto, it’s not actually that hard to search and find out what’s actually going on in this photo, but, you know, people like spreading false info without researching when it fits their agenda of shitting on others.

So!  The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston reacquired Claude Monet’s 1876 painting La Japonaise, which features his wife in a formal kimono.  It’s generally regarded as poking fun at French frenzy over Japanese art and fashion.  Which is cool, it’s a beautiful painting and read that way, rather witty.  But then the MFA Boston made a potential flub.

They instigated “Kimono Wednesdays” in which patrons were invited to try on kimono.  Which, okay, done in conjunction with Japan’s national broadcaster NHK and was intended to help promote Japan’s flagging kimono industry, but maybe not the best idea.

Certainly a lot of young people thought so.  The first “Kimono Wednesday” featured protesters, most of whom where Japanese-Americans and Japanese nationals living in the states.  Omg you took the one photo featuring some of the very few non-Japanese protesters and twisted it to fit your agenda, wtf.

Then counter-protesters showed up, most of them older Japanese ladies, some in kimono.  One held a sign saying “I am not offended by people wearing kimono in front of French paintings.”

WHICH IS WHAT YOU ARE SEEING IN THIS FUCKING PHOTO.

It’s cultural appropriation protesters facing counter-protesters, having a debate about what is cultural appropriation and whether wearing having art museum patrons play dress-up in kimono was a good idea. 

This is what most of the protest and dialog looked like:

But no, you’d rather perpetual the mythos of “Tumblr SJWs” and erasing the Japanese and Japanese-American people who organized the protest and their voices as well as the Japanese women who counter-protested.

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