PM Modi Leads Yoga Day Events, Says 'Yoga Not Religious Activity': multiple preparatory events were held across the US, UK and Australia: "Urging people to embrace yoga like they have taken to the mobile phone": Feminist cultural appropriation narrative fail.

Peanutor15 · 2017-03-26T17:14:11+00:00

Sorry, but how is this in any way relevant to this sub?

trygold · 2017-03-26T17:24:39+00:00

So the man is encouraging people to do yoga. The horror :/

maniclurker · 2017-03-26T19:53:45+00:00

I'm not seeing the correlation.

DougDante · 2017-03-27T03:13:26+00:00

At the Feminist dominated University of Ottawa:

Staff at the Centre for Students with Disabilities said in an email that “while yoga is a really great idea and accessible and great for students ... there are cultural issues of implication involved in the practice... Yoga has been under a lot of controversy lately due to how it is being practiced.”

It adds that the cultures that yoga is taken from, “have experienced oppression, cultural genocide and diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy ... we need to be mindful of this and how we express ourselves while practising yoga.”

University of Ottawa bans free yoga class because of “cultural appropriation”

https://www.therebel.media/university_of_ottawa_bans_free_yoga_class_because_of_cultural_appropriation

Yet the "oppressed group" who these feminists claim to defend, want people in other cultures to share in yoga "embrace yoga like they have taken to the mobile phone".

Their complaints are not about defending others.

They are about using them to assert control.

Rethgil · 2017-03-26T20:19:14+00:00

Maybe if the post title had been put a little clearer? As it is I agree with the other posters here and don't really get the importance of this.

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