I’ve been seeing headass headlines this for the past few days, and I simply ignored it bc the media does shit like this for money and clickbait. But I realized this is more than the media tryna get their coins, this is a blatant attack on black women and other woc. So @ white women? I think it’s time we have a little chat.
1. Beyonce has gone through a miscarriage, and thousands of other women have been through it as well. It is a terrible experience that no one deserves to go through. But Beyonce is a FAMOUS PERSON, and she has one of the largest fanbases in the world. So when she delivers news such as being pregnant with TWINS, of course the beyhive is gonna to go above and beyond when it comes to the reaction. Ya’ll dragged her through the mud w/ her first pregnancy trying to say it was faked. Now that she’s pregnant for a second time, she’s doing all these photo shoots to further prove the accuracy of it. And now ya’ll are criticizing her for it????? Tryna cover your asses for how you treated her 5 years ago??????? Get the fuck over it, because ya’ll didn’t say shit when these women did THIS w/ their pregnancy announcements:
2. Serena Williams has been demonized and ridiculed for her body type since FOREVER. People say that her body is “too masculine” and how she’s “built like a man”. It’s fucking gross because Serena is one of the most hard working athletes in the WORLD, and her body type shouldn’t be affiliated with the blood, sweat, and tears that goes into her career. White women, you can’t say that you’re an advocate for equality when you criticize a black woman’s photo shoot, deeming it “soft porn”, and yet you praise THESE photoshoots:
When a white woman, or hell even a non-black woman does shit like this, ya’ll are so quick to write article about how “empowering” they’re being. But when a black woman does it ya’ll all of the sudden wanna further sexualize and make it about “soft porn”??? Get over yourselves and let a black women love herself after receiving massive amounts of slander for her body type.
3. The role in Ghost in the Shell is definitely about race. If her character’s mom is Asian, then why tf couldn’t they just get an Asian person to play the character in the damn first place????
She should’ve just said “a woc deserves the role more than me, but unfortunately I can’t control who they cast” and then moved on. But nope, she had to make it about herself and disregard the fact woc are hardly ever represented in movies, especially Asian women.
4. You can’t criticize a movie you don’t even relate to on a cultural level. Moonlight takes the components of black struggles, black culture, black life, and puts it into a true cinematic experience. You don’t have to like the movie, but the movie itself is more about whether you “like it” or not. It’s whether you relate to it, whether you feel with it, and whether your experiences correlate with the character’s experiences. A “better plot” wouldn’t do shit Becky, you either get it or not. Not to mention Camilla Long was kissing La La Land’s ass:
So the point of this post isn’t to slander all white women and shame them. The point of this post to to show how frustrated black women are with white feminism. White women can be just as racist as white men, and they sure as hell benefit off that privilege. This is why a lot of black women these days kinda go side eyed when a white women says she’s a feminist. Are you a feminist for all women? Or are you a feminist for WHITE women. Please don’t call yourself a “advocate” for women if you’re gonna spend all this time bashing black women and other woc. Just say you hate black women and go.
FUCK WHITE FEMINISM 2KFOREVER
The double standard is infuriating! Please do better WW. I mean please…🙄
Our feminism doesn’t count for fuck if it doesn’t include black women, women of colour, queer, trans women of all stripes – everyone.
White feminism only upholds white supremacy if it excludes all the above.
She shouldn’t have been allowed to speak anyways considering she supports Israel, victim blamed Dylan Farrow after she publicly denounced Woody Allen and those celebrities who still support him, and has taken roles from women of color. It’s especially gross she was given this platform when the majority of the organizers are women of color and one of the organizers of the Women’s March is literally a Muslim Palestinian woman.
Johansson said, literally out of her own mouth, that she would support Trump if he supported women and would give her [Johansson’s] daughter the same reproductive health care “privileges” as Ivanka Trump had in her youth. This is after she made statements like “don’t let the helplessness make you complacent”, as if standing in the middle of a crowd of thousands of women marching for their rights is the appropriate venue to talk about people’s complacency.
I won’t force myself to go through the full seven minute drivel she poured out on that stage before being cut off, but those two statements alone show the gigantic gap in understanding the struggle’s of being a woman in America when you come from the most privileged groups of women in the country, if not the world.
Reproductive health care is never a privilege and the fact that it is ever viewed as such is an affront to women’s humanity. This isn’t the “March for Women’s Privileges and Special Treatment”, this is a march for the rights which women, by nature of being humans, are entitled to have recognized by the government and those in office.
For Scarlett Johansson to make her speech about her as an individual and to even think to speak the words “I will support [Trump]” is abhorrent. It flies in the face of the entire purpose of the March. This isn’t about bargaining rights for patriotism, it’s about demanding rights and promising resistance if they’re not acknowledged. To stand in front of a crowd of so many women from so many backgrounds and say “I, a White cis woman, will support your oppression of others so long as I’m looked out for” is the epitome of White supremacism through the feminist lens.
White women don’t belong in leadership positions in movements for women’s rights, and honestly they don’t belong in leadership positions of any movement seeking to recognize and protect human rights. They don’t get it and they can never get it. They shouldn’t be given a platform to prove that time and time again at the expense of the women of color, trans women, disabled women, and etc. who they carelessly speak over.
I’m only doubling-down on this after seeing how many people are coming home from protests and talking about how many White cis women were at these demonstrations, nationwide, with nothing but trans-exclusionary, one-dimensional slogans on their signs. White women, and White cis women especially, only care about themselves. They don’t deserve platform or credit in movements intended to benefit all women, They don’t understand that concept of “all”.
I know other white feminists are going to get all sensitive about being told that we can’t be leaders in these posts. My sisters, LET DOUBT SINK INTO YOU. Don’t panic it out. If you’re a feminist, and all your feminist icons, heroes, and teachers are white women, you have a SERIOUS PROBLEM that will undermine your feminist practice and theory until you address it. You don’t even know yet how much you need women of color IN THE LEAD. Go and read even a handful of their books, and you will know what I mean. Start with bell hooks if you want my personal suggestion, her love trilogy, All About Love. Google these women. Follow them online. Eventually, you will recognize who our real leaders are. And they won’t look so much like you.
Sharing this because it seems like some people do not know their history.
The most powerful voices I have ever heard, voices that ring with an agony of a truth so hard-won, are the voices of black women, women of colour – and that includes trans women as well.
White, cis women, even if you’re queer – push your pride down. Understand what intersectionality means and recognise your privilege. Gender politics and racial politics intersect. That doesn’t mean we need to divide over it.
Whatever suffering might be ahead, it’s always worse for them. Respect their strength, their vision, their wisdom – and their voice. If anyone can lead us to something better, it’s women who, for generations, have carried the weight of our worst.
The Doctor Is Out 