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there should be kink at fort spencer

Saw someone saying that zendaya wearing those ancient artefacts as jewellery is comparable to the time Kim Kardashian wore Marilyn monroe’s dress and while I understand that the situations can be compared, seeing as they’re both historical items that were used as stunts, I think the earrings are very clearly a much fouler situation. Not only because of their age, but because of the orientalism inherent in the act. Kim Kardashian is an American, often fetishised and objectified woman but still a white American woman, who wore the dress of another rich white American woman. It was vile, but she was violating a woman and an artefact of the same cultural hegemony and imperial power that she herself belongs and is party to. Zendaya is an American woman who wore a pair of likely stolen Iranian historical artefacts while the US is still actively at war with Iran. A member of an imperial power wearing artefacts from a country they’re actively at war with and trying to oppress, a country that’s been under their imperial thumb for decades, as a stunt for a movie, is absolutely not on the same level as Kim Kardashian’s own stunt. The fact that Zendaya got these earrings from a company in the UK only serves to make it worse for reasons I should not need to explain considering the UK’s imperial and colonialist history.