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[references to policing, violence]
Your professor will not be happy with you if he says the Stanford Prison Experiment shows human nature and you say it shows the nature of white middle class college-aged boys.
Like he will not be happy at all.
Holy paradigm shift, Batman!
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Hot For Myself: girljanitor: cyberfawn: I’m all for women’s rights and stuff but like... →
I’m all for women’s rights and stuff but like some people take it too far idk like obviously there are things that we need to work on as a society and there’s a whole lot wrong with societies views of women and the way we are expected to act but like a 12…
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Feminism has NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE WHY ARE YOU MAKING IT ABOUT RACE
- white feminists: HOW IS FEMINISM A RACE THING
- Indigenous Women: Because what you call feminism you stole from us, like everything else we owned. We'd like that back by the way.
- Black Women: We were doing it and doing it better before you white girls too.
- “Third-World” Women of Color: Because you justify bombing us in the name of Women’s liberation.
- Men of Color: Because you depict us as being inherently sexual predators and criticize us more and more intensely than white men for the same shit.
- Trans* Women of Color: Because you depict us as rapist men out to steal the female form and exclude us from spaces we desperately need to feel safe because people kill us and no one cares.
- Women of Color in general: Because you refuse to acknowledge how your white privilege has been used to oppress people of color for centuries and the intersectional experiences that women of color face. How white supremacy, colonialism and imperialism imposed your shitty Western gender binary upon us with your shitty gender roles and your shitty patriarchy on top of the racism we face, makes us and our bodies seen as inherently rapeable, killable and less than subhuman. Acknowledge race you white fuckers.
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Whiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and American culture - the latter, as Albert Murray pointed out, a mixture of the Yankee, the Indian, and the Negro (with a pinch of ethnic salt); there is youth culture and drug culture and queer culture; but there is no such thing as white culture. Whiteness has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with social position. It is nothing but a reflection of privilege, and exists for no reason other than to defend it. Without the privileges attached to it, the white race would not exist, and the white skin would have no more social significance than big feet.
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so i’ve been thinking a lot about misandry
other folks (bad-dominicana is one example) have been posting a lot about it too- about the privilege white misandrists hold and ignore
like, obviously it’s a privilege to be able to talk about cutting people up, or like that one girl, hit some random person in the street for saying a rape joke- as others pointed out, it’s a bit rich to have the queer/feminist ~community~ celebrate that when you consider what cece mcdonald is going through. womyn and non-binary people of color do not have the same space to like plot the violent demise of men. it’s dangerous to even type that shit on your blog for so many people.
and then there’s the fact that they don’t specify that it’s white men who are really to blame for all of the sexism men of color perpetuate because of how whiteness informs the ways they are allowed to be men/allowed to be valid humans. isn’t it the definition of privilege to not even think about all of the men of color when white feminists talk about hating men and wishing them dead. clearly, white people have been pretty successful in killing men of color (or otherwise control their bodies- prisons, military, etc). and that’s just in the states, i’m not getting into colonialism and global domination of people of color. also like in this white feminist utopia where men no longer exist… there’d still be white supremacy. the white womyn would be done with that whole “liberation” thing (cough white gay men) and leave poc in the dust. i seriously doubt patriarchy would be able to withstand the downfall of white supremacy for long. idk i’m just regurgitating the ideas of others wiser and more articulate than i, but i have always been wary of the way that white people get to be so vocal and open about hating men. it’s totally real for privileged people to take on a more “inflammatory” role or whatever, as long as they constantly center the conversation back on those who they hold power over. as long as white people acknowledge their privilege in even being able to say this shit, let alone act on it. that’s what allyship looks like, and it’s clearly not happening.
tl;dr- who are white misandrists helping but other white people?
ugh god my friends are flooding my dash with brilliant things today that make me uncomfortable in the best of ways. thanks for writing this lex.
jokes tags getting real yo. Another instalment of: people on tumblr say really really fucking important and eye-opening shit.
Not disagreeing ‘cause like, I know what limpwristpointedfist said is true and powerful, but are we not supposed to celebrate womyn who punch misogynist men making rape jokes? Because I think it is entirely okay and possible to applaud a womyn for doing that and be considerate of what Cece is going through and be active in that as well.
I can see the privilege it is to be a misandrist but I still don’t really get the “White people created sexism/transphobia/homophobia” Like, I don’t see how that’s supported and if POC violate womyn are we supposed to say “damn those white people ruining everything”? Idk, this is something intricate and complicated and I don’t know how to sort it out. I’m still a misandrist, still a huge hater of white men not identifying their privilege and still routinely insulted and disrespected by black men as often as white men so idk.
white women who eat, sleep, live and breathe around white men more regularly because they are white and spend more time with white men in general never get disrespected and treated as sexist by Black men as they are by white men. it’s fucking impossible. check yourself bitch.
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We hear it said that there is no “race problem,” but only a “class problem.” The Negro sharecropper is destitute not because of his color but because of his class position—and it is pointed out that there are white people who are equally poor. From a practical point of view there is a point to this reasoning. But from a theoretical angle it contains escapism in a new form. It also draws too heavily on the idealistic Marxian doctrine of “class struggle.” And it tends to conceal the whole system of deprivations visited upon the Negro only because he is not white.
Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma. 1944.
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1944, and already folks had to be told things weren’t post-racial.
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For the boring, white, leftists that seem to think that class is the only thing that matters.
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One white woman raised her hand and protested, “Why are we reading about Black people? I thought this was a women’s studies class.” The professor lost her temper and told her that in case she didn’t know, it was a Black woman teaching the class and that Black people can also be women. The white woman started crying and angrily left the class. I was amazed at this white woman’s sense of entitlement and privilege, of being able to protest and cry in the classroom.
Siobhan Brooks, ”Black Feminism in Everyday Life”
The failure to grasp intersectionality that I think a lot of white feminists (and really people of every type of movement) seem to miss
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I’m trying to figure out the tears though, because I see this often as a tool used to deflect from discussions of racism in feminism & it works on someone somewhere but it never fails to piss off & alienate WOC. So, if you’re repping for solidarity & you can’t talk about race, class, or sexuality then why are you here?
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On Creating Black Characters
I’ve noticed that lot of people run into trouble when trying to diversify their work simply because they don’t know any black people. They don’t know how a black person would think or act, and they can’t write what they don’t know. So I thought I would write up a quick list of pointers for anyone having this problem.
This is true. The only differences between white people and anyone that isn’t white is…uhhhh….ummmm…
Yeah, I got nothin’.
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As many as 15 percent of freshmen at America’s top schools are white students who failed to meet their university’s minimum standards for admission, according to Peter Schmidt, deputy editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education. These kids are “people with a long-standing relationship with the university,” or in other words, the children of faculty, wealthy alumni and politicians.
According to Schmidt, these unqualified but privileged kids are nearly twice as common on top campuses as Black and Latino students who had benefited from affirmative action.
Source: sociolab
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that thing where a white queer person uses like 6 things to self-identify and totally leaves out the fact that they are white
“queer working class fat poly femme”
“trans queer middle class vegan punk”
“kinky, poor, young, dyke”YOU’RE ALL WHITE
WHY DO YOU THINK IT’S NOT OKAY TO IDENTIFY YOUR WHITENESS?
Being kinky or vegan is not what people see when they decide whether or not to, say, follow you around the store where they work, but being white is. I can’t get into people giving me a laundry list of ways they’re oppressed where 1. half are phony, e.g. vegan, and 2. no one wants to talk about race (anarchists, I’m looking at y’all).
and i’m real in my feelings right now about those same white folks then using their marginalized identities to uphold white supremacy.
yes.
every time that we sit around and talk about queerness and white queers do not talk about race and expect me to bond with them over instances of a queer experience, you are erasing so many parts of my experience as a person of color under some guise of “sameness”
every time a white queer or trans person talks about their interactions being harassed/afraid/whatever in public and attribute it only to being queer and/or trans, they are ignoring the ways white supremacy interacted with the situation
every time i am identified as “a queer” by queer white people and they think that is something i should celebrate and identify with on its own, they are erasing my brownness and ignoring their whiteness and effectively perpetuating white supremacyevery time a space is labeled a “queer space” and is full of white people who talk so much about queerness and never whiteness, that is a white supremacist space
every time a space is labeled a “queer space” and is full of white people who talk so much about queerness and never whiteness, that is a white supremacist space
every time a space is labeled a “queer space” and is full of white people who talk so much about queerness and never whiteness, that is a white supremacist space
every time a space is labeled a “queer space” and is full of white people who talk so much about queerness and never whiteness, that is a white supremacist space
every time a space is labeled a “queer space” and is full of white people who talk so much about queerness and never whiteness, that is a white supremacist space
every time a space is labeled a “queer space” and is full of white people who talk so much about queerness and never whiteness, that is a white supremacist space
reblogging again, since like… 2/3 of my white followers do this. I SEE YOU. FIX YOUR SHIT.
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