“When I remember that somewhere a white woman is suffering, the plight of my people does not seem so bad.”
Does anyone know the pain of the ivory princess, the bourgeois feminist?
THIS THE FUCKING BEST THING EVER.
omfg
This? Just fucking pisses me off.
You wanna get mad about the people who whine about their internet being slow, or the people who type out “FML” because they got a stain on their shoe? Fine.
But suffering?
No. If someone is unemployed, out on the street, dying of cancer, watching their kids get bullied at school, wondering where their next meal is coming from, dealing with a friends’ suicide, being threatened with sexual assault or coercion, or just dealing with the trials of being *human*, you don’t get to say it’s no big deal just because their skin is white, or black, or red, or whatever.
I get that this is supposed to be funny. And even that “suffering” is supposed to be sarcastic, but just the idea that the significance of somebody’s problems ties into their *race* instead of what the problem actually is… disturbs me.
Historically, yes. White women in general never had it as bad in the the course of US history as the Seminoles, the Cherokee, and their fellow tribes-people, but when you encourage people to *continue* thinking in terms of people’s skin tone being related to their significance, you’re still perpetuating the problem even if you’re just reversing the group it’s directed towards.
Normally, I try not to get into political stuff on my blog, but this one just bubbled up too many feelings for me to pass it over.
Yes, someone who agrees with me! We really need stop including race as someone’s general identity in the first place, what does it matter if they’re black or asian or white etc.?
… HAHAHAHAHA gurl please.
lol i love you so much, di.
hawberries
