[GET OUT SPOILERS BELOW]
“…As the plot unravels, it seems that Rose is willing to take Chris’s suspicions seriously and, as the title indicates, get out.
And I believed her. I believed her even after Chris discovered a box in her room filled with pictures of the other black men and women she’d seduced for her family before getting to him. My brain jumped to the next “logical" conclusion. Clearly Rose’s mother had hypnotized her daughter into being part of their scheme, making Rose forget each time she’d lured a black person home for them.”
“I held onto that theory until the final possible moment, when Rose turns to Chris as they’re supposedly attempting to escape together and says, “You know I can’t give you these keys.” It was a familiar sensation, one usually played out over a longer period of time. But here, condensed into one 10-minute span, I recognized the sinking feeling of being betrayed by a white woman you’ve stanned for, loved, liked, or even simply been mildly okay with. It’s that feeling when you find out that, after enjoying her in Easy A and finding her bubbly personality lovable, Emma Stone was fine with playing an Asian woman in Aloha. Maybe you went through it with Scarlett Johansson when you found out that she’d accepted the lead role in Ghost in the Shell, an adaptation of a Japanese anime series. It’s the betrayal you feel the first time you realize that women who are labeled pop-culture feminist icons, like Tina Fey, are perfectly fine with gunning for blackface laughs at your expense, or blaming your idols for white girls’ lack of self-esteem. (Beyoncé is many things, but she is not the reason you hate your body.)”
“For some, it’s the 53 percent of white women who voted for Trump, or finding out that the leader of your local NAACP chapter is literally a white woman in disguise. For others it’s finding out that Taylor Swift’s been coasting on America’s fear of black men for years. I feel it every time I realize there’s a white women on my Twitter timeline who will tweet in earnest for Planned Parenthood while sparing only a perfunctory tweet for Black Lives Matter or the Standing Rock Sioux.”
“…White women have always played, and continue to play, a large part in upholding the supremacy. They have not held the best interests of people of color. Putting full trust in them has often been to our detriment. Rose’s willingness to put herself and, essentially, the survival of white bodies above the well-being of black people was as unsurprising as it was terrifying. In Get Out, whiteness trumps all, and the true horror is leaving the theater knowing that, in this case? It’s not just a movie.”
Someone actually wrote a good (scratch that, great) article at Cosmo. Hell has officially frozen over.
this was an excellent article wow..
Cosmo might be on the path of actually being worth something.
Well…
“Get Out” Perfectly Captures the Terrifying Truth About White Women
The Doctor Is Out 