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Offline oomachew

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Twinkie Test
« on: January 26, 2011, 10:37:53 pm »
Stolen from the Facebook page Kiesha Crowther is a FAKE!

Twinkie Test
by Thomas Beauchman on Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 12:26pm
The following test will help you determine if you're a twinkie.

1. you don't know what a 'twinkie' is.... See More
2..you think 'twinkie' is a name brand of golden sponge cake.
3..you're a shaman, and all your friends are shamans too.
4..your Indian Spirit Guide only speaks English.
5..you have a plastic Indian headdress hanging from your rear view mirror.
6..you don't drive a 'rez rocket'.
7..you think apples are for eating.
8..you gave all your dogs authentic Native American names.
9...your great grandmother was a Cherokee princess.
10..your great grandfather was a Cherokee princess, too.
11..you own collector plates featuring men with rippling muscles, feathers, and prostrate maidens.
12..you've never been to a 49.
13..you've never woken up with a houseful strangers fixing themselves breakfast, eating your bacon, and calling you 'cousin'.
14..you bought the collectible Barbie (tm) 'with authentic Native costume'.
15..you named your dog, cat, or hamster for a famous Native American.
16..you think Dances with Wolves is a great movie.
17..you don't know who Leonard Peltier is.
18..you want to know where to apply to get your Indian name.
19..you desperately want to date a Native American person.
20..you've been studying Native American spirituality for three months and are now ready to lead a sweat.
21..you send greeting cards with images of Noble Red Men on them.
22..you have 'Native American scent' air freshener in your car.
23..you have never stood next to a dancer after five hours of powwow in the hot sun and therefore think 'Native American scent' is something you >want to have in your car.
24..you don't know what a CDIB card is, and wouldn't qualify for one even if you did
.25..you wonder why that abalone shell has holes in the bottom.
26..you want to get a cool Native American tattoo.
27..you had your brother-in-law airbrush a big eagle on the tailgate of your pickup truck and you're not a Harley fan.
28..you refer to a drum as a 'tom tom'.
29..you think 'heya heyaya' is the Indian word for 'God', because it's in all the songs.
30..you bought the soundtrack to Disney's Pocahontas and sing along.
31..your mother gave you a t shirt with a picture of a scantily clad woman petting a wolf for your birthday.
32..you mistook an Italian man for a Sioux chief.
33....you signed a petition protesting the slaughter of buffalo while dropping your trash on the ground.
34..you had a dream in which you discovered your 'true name' is 'Spirit of the Red Wolf Who Runs with Crystals'.
35..you're only interested in the 'good parts' of Native spirituality.
36..your bumper sticker has a quote from Chief Seattle instead of AIM.
37..you bought 'genuine Indian moccasins' made in a factory in Minnesota.
38..when you meet a real Indian, you hold your hand out like a stop sign and say, "How!"
39..you made a construction paper headdress and put on a play at school and you're more than twelve years old
40..you can remember that Indian guy who cried in the ecology commercial, but you don't know his name.
41..when you meet a man with a mohawk, you assume he must be a punk rocker.
42..you have a mohawk--and you're female.
43..you have no idea if the headband you're wearing is intended for men or women.
44..you didn't notice your 'Indian jewelry' was stamped 'made in Thailand'.
45..you own many Indian art objects, but you have never been to a powwow.
46..you think militant Indians are a disgrace to the red race, but you just adore Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.
47..you interrupt an elder to tell them they're wrong because a book you read said so.
48..you're a man, but you don't have footprints on your back from your woman walking all over you.
49..you were an Indian princess in a former life.
50..you were a medicine man in a former life.
51..you want people to call you 'Chief', even though you are not the leader of a fire department, police department, or a tribe.
52..you made up your own tribe.
53..you are the great, great, great, great, grandson of Tecumseh, putting the number of his offspring at 24,473--more than the entire population of the Shawnee tribe today.
54..you didn't know that Tecumseh was Shawnee.55..you're the grandson of Tecumseh--you can remember sitting on his knee.
56..you built a sweat lodge from instructions you found on the Web.
57..you chose to leave the city and live on a mountain in a cabin with no running water.
58..you get annoyed if people are late.
59..your fur coats are all store bought.
60..you have no idea why Native people laugh hysterically when they see you on the street
61..you call a shinny stick a 'LaCrosse stick'.
62..you admire Chief Joseph for what he said, but you're not sure what he did.
63..you call the Sioux people 'Lakota'--even the Dakota and Nakota.
64..you think all Native Americans spend their days communing with Mother Nature.
65..you willingly pay $300 for an authentic sweat with a plastic shaman.
66..you believe that 'freedom of expression' gives you the right to poke your nose into matters that don't concern you.
67..you ask a question, then argue with the answer.
68..last year you were into Buddhism, the year before that you were a witch, and the year before that you were a member of Green Peace.
69..you had a sudden impulse to drive non-stop across America to the Black Hills--and you don't even know anyone out there.
70..you think the Black Hills are the only sacred site in America.
71..you wear plastic chokers to honor Native Americans.
72..you love Native American jewelry, but make it more attractive by adding your own personal touch.
73..you've never used an outhouse.
74..you've never eaten 'slow elk'--you're sure you'd remember if you had!
75..when served 'Indian steak,' you complain, "Hey, this is bologna!"
76..road kill makes you go, 'Ew!' instead of, 'Hey, new regalia!'
77..you don't know how many drummers it takes to screw in a light bulb.
78..you ask complete strangers for advice on naming your kids.79..you got interested in Native culture by watching 'Star Trek'.
80..you use words like 'squaw,' 'buck,' 'berdache,' and 'shaman,' and wonder why people are mad at you.
81..you bought a medicine bag, but you don't know what's in it.
82..you think a powwow sounds like a great place to work on your tan, so >you wore your swimsuit.
83..you're proud of the fact that you can name all five Indian tribes.
84..your car is not made out of equal parts Bondo and duct tape.
85..you selected wallpaper with Indians, horses, and tipis for your son's bedroom.
86..you've never eaten commodity cheese.
87...you've never used commodity cheese as a doorstop.
88..you hang Indian corn on your front door instead of eating it.
89..your mother gave you an Indian name, but it never occurred to you to ask her what it meant until it was too late.
90..you get defensive and evasive if anybody questions your Native credentials.
91..you've never heard of fry bread.
92..you won't eat fry bread because it has too much fat in it.
93..you think it's an honor to Native Americans that Jeep named a sport utility vehicle after them.
94..none of your relatives has diabetes.
95..you are one third Native American.
96..you want to know what tribe you're related to, but have no intention of actually doing the genealogy to figure it out.
97..you ask the Internet to tell you who you're related to instead of asking your relatives.
98..you think you should get in free to a powwow because you have Indian blood.
99..you're proud of being a twinkie.
100..you wear the purple suede fringed miniskirt with knee high moccasins to a pow wow and wonder why no one likes it.
101..you walk up to strange Indian women and ask them to bless your beads.
102..you have a dream catcher hanging from your rear view mirror.
103..you have a Nativity scene featuring a tipi

Offline amorYcohetes

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Re: Twinkie Test
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2011, 03:25:35 pm »
Erm... I feel *extremely* awkward bringing this up... but I feel compelled to comment here about some of the jargon used on this message board.  Okay, so this might be an East Coast vs. West Coast thing, or it could be a matter of North American native culture vs. other cultures.  But I consider this forum a serious watchdog resource and reference that I recommend, and this is said in the spirit of making sure it is seen as credibly as possible. 

I would think carefully about how much you might want to use (in print) terms that have other, perhaps more commonly recognized, cultural meanings in the U.S.  I am not sure what this says about the circles I run in, but before I saw this website a year ago the only way I had ever heard the term "twinkie" used was first (as a kid) to mean the Asian-American equivalent of oreo and apple - that is, as an intra-ethnic put-down used to criticize an Asian living in the West for being too assimilated.  And then (as an grownup) I started to hear it used by the gay male community to mean a man with a boyish or androygynous appearance, particularly in reference to the adult film and services industry. 

I don't know who appropriated this slang term from whom, or if the three competing meanings evolved independently.  You could google or look on wikipedia to see which definition has more hits or links.  As a generational reference, I was a kid in the 80's, a teen in the 90's and a young adult in the 00's.  I would say that from my perspective as an urban Latina who is involved with N. American Native communities but not a member of or living in one, I think the two definitions I gave above are the more commonly recognized in the mainstream American society, which I think is one of the main constituencies this forum is trying to reach, right?  And because the gay community has quite a bit of cultural influence here in the States and gets a lot of exposure in the entertainment industry, I would guess that it might be possible that a lot more people would associate the term "twink" or "twinkie" with that definition, than with the one used by the NAFPS community, regardless of who started using it first.

Just one person's perspective to consider, from a relative newcomer to the forum. 

PS -
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58. you get annoyed if people are late.
  LOL, Rez Time  :D.  Latinos call it "La Hora Hispana"/Latin Time (or "La Hora Boliviana" - or whatever country we are from).  Black people call it "Colored People Time"/ CP Time.  I think probably, of the world's ethnic groups, the few that highly value punctuality are far outweighed by the rest of us!

Offline earthw7

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Re: Twinkie Test
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2011, 07:26:52 pm »
I never heard of those two defination for twinkie before :o
To me in the Dakota they are fake Indian
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Offline E.P. Grondine

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Re: Twinkie Test
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2011, 05:29:12 pm »
 :D :D :D :D :D

My home computer is down so excuse my brevity.

Speaking about Tecumseh, his village site in Greenville Ohio is still not owned by the NPS.

Please call your representatives' offices and ask that some of the stimulus money be used for this
important task.

Re: Twinkie Test
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2011, 06:09:04 pm »
I've only heard "twinkie" in reference to gay people, but it doesn't take but a moment to
understand the term for fake wannabe and new age peoples when reading the list, or
even in reading posts where the term is used.
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Re: Twinkie Test
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2011, 11:53:20 pm »
Oh wow -- I never heard of a Twinkie being anything other than a wannabe NDN... guess I'm a bit sheltered.   :P :)

Offline Defend the Sacred

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Re: Twinkie Test
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2011, 12:06:30 am »
I've heard all of the above. I've always found it easy to understand which meaning is intended based on context.

Offline amorYcohetes

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Re: Terminology
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2011, 05:35:37 pm »
Okay, so it looks like maybe I'm the only one who inwardly cringes while picturing Alec Mapa* when when this term is used  ;).

Anyway, just wanted to let people here know about the baggage that newcomers to the forum, not raised in US/Canadian Indian communities, may have when encountering the word "twinkie" in this context.  I'm glad to finally get that off my chest!

*much love, btw

Offline Saga

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Re: Twinkie Test
« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2011, 06:52:33 pm »
I have heard the word in pagan forums referred to someone who reads one book and thinks (s)he knows all. :) (ie wannabe as well)
« Last Edit: February 04, 2011, 09:32:33 am by Saga »

Offline oomachew

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Re: Twinkie Test
« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2011, 07:37:16 pm »
I posted this not to offend anyone but the word Twinkie to me also means wannabe or as we call them in our neck o' the woods wh-indians, I do have gay friends and I would never call them by this word, these are friends I grew up with and have our own special friendship and we do call each other things but that is between us and people have come up to us thinking we are bashing each other but it is just "our" way, sorry if this offended as it was not intended for that reason. I by no means am not judgemental to peoples preferences (sexuality)  but do take offense when people who have no right to be using traditional ways for their own gain or fame.

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Offline E.P. Grondine

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Re: Twinkie Test
« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2011, 10:19:42 pm »
IMO, This belongs under the comedy heading.

Offline matt e

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Re: Twinkie Test
« Reply #11 on: February 17, 2011, 09:43:12 pm »
i have many gay friends, and i would like to pointout to them "twink" or "twinkie" is not a derogatory term, it refers to young men 18-25.

  i think that anyone reading the forum would be able to understand the meaning as used here.

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