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When you separate sex from the transmission of life, you devalue both sex and life.
The lack of RSVPing is just a symptom of our coarsened culture. Common courtesy is gone.
Holding the door for a woman is a show of respect. It is not, as feminists love to say, an assumption that the woman cannot do for herself. The Left rails against this practice and at the same time celebrates the misogynistic “lyrics” in rap. This is just another example of how the Left contradicts its own purported values while making everything worse.
The claiming of “cultural appropriation” is complete nonsense, especially with respect to food. Every culture today (at least if they’ve done any trading) has incorporated things they’ve learned from from others. Who gets to claim a particular item? How far back do you go? Almost all of what we consider “Japanese” was brought to Japan from somewhere else as they traded and otherwise interacted with others. Think of the foods we wouldn’t have but for people adopting (or “appropriating”) foods from another culture.
One of the wonders of modern America is that peoples from many cultures interact so that we can learn from each other. Like your Mexican restaurant owners, they want to share their food with others, and we find it’s delicious. I saw a recent comment that if only people of Italian ancestry could eat Italian food, the majority of Italian restaurants would have to close.
Some of the biggest festivals in my area are the Greek Orthodox Churches serving Greek food to the rest of us, and trying to get us to try Greek dancing and appreciate Greek music.
Greek festivals are the best! I have no guilt culturally appropriating Greek food.