That One Where I Defend Kylie and Kendall Jenner

If you believe in Free Speech, you have to support the right of dudes with man-buns to bitch about some sparrow’s migration habitat. When the world’s greatest merchandising whores are piled on superfluously, you must defend the Jenners. You’re not going to get laid. Depending on your income and ability to rap.

Every time the Jenners introduce another line of silk screened abundantly marked-up clothing to their demographic of Girls Who Don’t Code, somebody yells, “You stole that shit!”. Almost entirely true. Not the Jenner Girls themselves. They’re barely sentient. But their business people trading in their name have stolen clothing concepts from cultures and sub-cultures and images of Tupac to be hip. Also that time they actually just stole stole some ladies clothing ideas and sold them as their own. Granted.

This time around the Jenners are moving clothing items in the manner of cholo wear from the movie Colors. The cholos and cholas and defenders of their demographic faith are screaming, “Appropriation!”. It’s rather unclear what that means. Second generation Mexican Americans surely did not invent flannel. Or baggy pants. We had a park pervert in my neighborhood growing up busting out that look well before movies featuring the Estevez brothers as high school Latinos.

Everything is appropriated. Everything is stolen. Even a Nobel Prize winning DNA sequencing model is piggybacked off somebody else’s work. You can’t invent a clothing style. Somebody already did it. Changing the way you button your shirt does not equal inventing Calculus. 

If the cholo appropriation thing is what you find most offensive about the Kardashians and Jenners, you’re picking fights because you deem it your demographic’s turn. Either take on the vapid shallowness of the teen fashion industry or let it go. This has nothing to do with offending your fond East L.A. street gang memories. It’s just business. 

The Jenners are a cog in the wheel. If they were the wheel, the world would stop spinning and we’d all fall off. The Jenner’s clothing business is not in the list of top ten things keeping Cholos from becoming President and CEO. Consider it an honor. 

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