Hey, did we tell you how to look when you lived in Orange County? No? Then fuck off.

P.S. What's your fleece vest count up to? I'll put the over-under at 5.

Yeah I just met a woman with numerous facial piercings (she's young and punk rock, though she does have 2 very young children, so I wonder what they think of Mommy's face). I had a nose ring when I was 21. I had to take it out for my job at 22 and the piercing closed pretty much immediately, so that was that. I could care less what people choose to pierce. It's all of the white supremacist terrorist tattoos that I find far more disturbing. And yes a Confederate flag is a white supremacist terrorism tattoo.

I find bolts through the face ugly and weird. But I’m an old guy so who cares.

How about you mind your own fucking business, you delicate little flower?

Other people's bodies aren't there for your approval.

Yup, what they all said. Mind your business, you're not clever. And by the way, how the hell is a nose ring "appropriation"?

Oh my god you are right Aurelius141. The nose ring was invented in troutdale in 1983.

Jesus fucken Christ. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nose_piercing#Nostril_piercing

@8 Wikipedia is hardly a credible source for anything. Just sayin' As for cultural appropriation, everything, literally EVERY SINGLE THING in white American culture has been appropriated. Possible exceptions might be Wonder Bread (TM) and white supremacist ideology /s.

There is also extensive discussion and documentation regarding Indian (as in from the country India) and African cultures and their thoughts and opinions regarding appropriation of nose piercing. It's goes far beyond a Wikipedia page. Have you read any of it? Do you believe that the nose rings of these cultures (which in some cases are indicative of male ownership of females in marriage) are what punks who pierce their faces are going for and want to emulate and appropriate?

Do you believe that body alteration and mutilation is the sole province of one culture? I ask this seriously, because there are so many different cultures with so many body modification rituals that mean SO MANY different things, I am curious as to which culture you believe is being appropriated and by whom? I mean in the section on piercings alone in the first article discusses piercing existing for thousands of years ~ so tell me who gets to claim that?

https://www.fragrancex.com/fragrance-information/the-history-of-body-modification-around-the-world.html

https://study.com/academy/lesson/cultural-body-modification-history-examples.html

https://medium.com/@nitinbhatt/16-most-extreme-cultural-body-modifications-in-the-world-f996b311036d

If you want to start a dialogue about appropriation (on a comment section of IA in the online version of the Portland Mercury) and you want to be taken seriously, you're going to have to bring more than a Wikipedia page to the table, FFS.

Yes, ear gauges are considered by some, as cultural appropriation.