odinsblog:

therealstarfire:

Fuck Miley Cyrus’ tone policing racist ass.

Like, do whitefeminists™ not get their merit badge until they try to shit on famous black women?  Because a lot of the time it sure seems as though nothing raises their profile or guarantees them stature among their white peers faster than picking on black women and black children

• Annie Lennox: “I would call Beyonce feminist-lite…twerking isn’t feminism”
  
• Emma Watson: “I’m very conflicted about Beyonce’s brand of feminism”  
  
• Patricia Arquette: “It’s time for all the gay people and all of the people of color that we’ve (white women) all fought for to all fight for US now” (Um…I’m sorry, but I thought Lgbtq / black women were also women?…who were fighting for equality long before Arquette was born?)
  
• Amy Poehler: *makes a disgusting ‘joke’ that sexualizes Beyonce’s 3yr old daughter, Blue Ivy*  
  
• Michelle Cottle: “Michelle Obama is a feminist nightmare”
• Miley Cyrus: “I don’t respect your (Nicki Minaj) statement because of the anger that came with it”    
  

White “feminists” really need to stop trying to be the self-appointed gatekeepers who get to decide what is and what is not ~*acceptable*~ feminism. Unsurprisingly, it’s often black women who don’t end up making the cut into their Euro-centric, narrow brand of white-respectability-feminism 

And just to be super clear: Nicki Minaj’s tweet (shown »here) actually was nice. Not one mean or “angry” word in it

A favorite tool of white supremacy is to frame black people (black women in particular) as unreasonable and angry - please note that this is the track Miley Cyrus decided to use (which, ironically, is little different from the sexist trope of “overly emotional” women - Miley may as well have told Nicki to smile more #stwts) and white women do this a lot; set up the black woman as needlessly “angry” then retreat to a place of “I’m the victim here” which is a very safe place to retreat to for white women because of embedded racial tropes protecting white purity & by extension, white women

Please get all the fucking way over the idea that anger from an oppressed group somehow delegitimizes a valid concern. The “be nice” meme is another dismissive, silencing tool of white supremacy. How did “being nice” work out for MLKjr? White culture demands black people to be forever “nice” but white culture is rarely “nice” to black people 

Black people have every right to be angry about racism and that anger should not be dismissed as trite or invalidating

10 collected posts on problems with whitefeminism™ that you should probably read when you have a chance: »One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten