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ok lets see if that thing with glasses chicks suddenly becoming super weird feminine when they whip off their glasses works
woop
well that was anticlimatic wait
wait
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON
What that is dumb and does not happen.
Look, check it out.
See, not much diff-
Wait, what-
the fuck.
You guys are being dumbs
That does not happen in real life watch
See I told you
Wait a
who am i
you guys this is straight up bullshit
i’ll prove it to you all right now ok
you see, like i said, it’s total bull—
…oh what the hell…
the FUCK kind of GYPSY MAGIC SHIT is THIS?!?!?!?!?!
…….
hey boys~*~*~*~ wonk~*~*~*~*~
Huh. You women and your woman problems.
Good thing I’m a dude and don’t have to worry about that kinda crapola
The term “government n*gger” is mostly used by some white people in the South to refer to a Black person on welfare or getting a government check of some sort.
so anyone whohonestlybelieves Santorum said Govermentnik (which isn’t a word used by anyone ever anywhere)
you are deluded
Rick Santorum is a frothy piece of shit.
Downsides:
- I just finished my 8th hour of overtime this week
- I’m super hungry/thirsty/stuck on a bus
- The book I was reading is finished
Upsides:
- It’s the weekend and I just got paid
- I roasted a butternut squash last night, and there’s chunks waiting in my fridge.
- My boss is gonna lend me the sequel on Monday
The government of the country I live in are making less and less sense.
Not really sure what I can or should do about that, or how.
Winnie Cooper Music Blog: WC 4 Year Anniversary with... LIL B →
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Exciting news y’all.
LIL B is coming for his first Canadian appearance for Winnie Cooper’s Year anniversary party.
Swag.
3k posts, uncountable hours wasted, numerous broken relationships and 200+ shows later.
For our 1 year we had Local Natives, 2 year Diamond Rings, 3rd year we were…
My uterus is such an attention whore.
[in reference to the post below]
Let me add that it ignores the fact of what information and timing mean in a media economy. And what it means to driving action. It makes her seem ” with it” while redefining what it is by connecting something current ( that she doesn’t have any credibility, history or bluntly interest in) to something she is marketing herself as an expert as. So when time comes to talk about victim blaming and the like , her voice looks as good as any to talk about this circumstance . It’s calculated as a way of diverting attention pleasantly . And it’s protected because AS IS BEING DEMONSTRATED IF someone points out the sheer opportunism that this makes , the hegemony and power and RACISM that protects this action is ignored Cause god Black women couldn’t be smart enough to notice patterns and consequences or follow social media outlets to notice that this is NOW trending and NOW. Being discussed even though the big rallies and actions that could have used this exposure got skipped
I want to explain to folks ALL THE REASONS WHY jassikkuh falentee's tweet is horrible...
Because I think folks really need that information and the tools to be able to critique Nice White Ladiestm and see how they uphold white supremacy and antiblackness…
But I’m tired. And my brain can’t put it all together in words. So maybe folks who are able can explain bits and pieces and it can all be put into context?
The comparison of rape being blamed on a woman’s clothing to Trayvon Martin’s murder being blamed on his hoodie fails because:
A) it’s reductive to the point of being nonsensical. Trayvon was a victim of white racism; comparing the murder of Black men to patriarchal justifications of rape is absurd and not something that should be done without a damn good explanation.
B) It blithely avoids the subject of race altogether. It’s a perfect example of the shallow perversion of intersectionality for oppressive purposes; absurd comparisons are made, allowing the one who is making those comparisons to appear concerned without having to explore their own prejudices or subjects that make them uncomfortable. It’s important to note that it completely erases the experience of Black women and other WoC, whose sexual assaults are also a product of racism. It implies that the victim-blaming in cases of rape and victim-blaming in cases of racist violence are similar, but do not overlap.
C) It’s just plain stupid. Rather than address the complex history of racism in the U.S. or the stereotyping of Black men or even the most basic-ass discussion about rape culture, it focuses on making a facile and useless point about how bad things shouldn’t happen to people because of what they’re wearing. It’s cotton candy, nothing but sugar and air, but popular because it’s so easy for (white) people to consume. It makes them feel better without actually accomplishing anything. That’s extremely harmful to anyone who must live with the consequences of racism, but Jessica Valenti clearly doesn’t care, because she’s been spitting out cotton candy pseudo-progressiveness for years despite innumerable call-outs.
tl;dr it’s white sociopathy with a Good Liberal stamp on its ass.
[This would fall under the Someone Has Already Said This Way Better Than Me category.]
A bunch of people have followed me in the past few days. For those people (or whoever), here’s a heads up: I mostly post my feelings, stuff other people have already said better than me, things I think are awesome, here’s-what-I-just-did/thought/ate/saw, and combinations of some or all of those things. Now you know.
White Silence
[HEY OTHER WHITE PEOPLE. READ THIS. ALSO REREAD THE FOLLOW-UP POST LINKED AT THE BOTTOM.]
by Mia McKenzie
I’ve noticed a trend. When I post to my Facebook page about gay cats, or my friend Sacha (a boy) trying out for the Denver Broncos cheerleaders, or bacon, my Facebook friends respond with comments and likes all across the board. That is to say, the friends who respond are all across the board—black, brown, white, queer, straight, all genders. There is no specific category of friends that responds more or less than any other, when it comes to pretty much anything I post on Facebook.
Except, as it turns out, when I post anything about race.
When I post anything about race, there’s a shift in who responds. Suddenly, my white friends are silent. Almost all of them. Every time.
And it’s starting to piss me off.
Most of the stuff I post about race is in the form of articles about things going on in the country and in the world, having to do with racism. Most recently, I’ve been posting links to news and articles about Travyon Martin (pictured above), the 17 year-old boy who was murdered last month in Florida while walking home with a bag of skittles. He was shot by a self-appointed neighborhood watch captain who thought he looked “suspicious” and followed him, accosted him, and shot him in the chest. Anyone who knows about this story, I would think, would be outraged. Scratch that. I know enough to know that there are many people who would not be outraged, many, many people who would not and do not give a shit. But I am not Facebook friends with those people. Or, at least, I didn’t think I was.
I am careful about who I friend on Facebook. I keep my friends around 150 or so, because I don’t think it’s possible to really know more people than that, and I like my bubble, I like to be surrounded by people who share most of my politics. I’m okay with that. I’m almost 36, and I have learned that I don’t really need to “appreciate everyone’s point of view.” I mean, you can have politics that are opposed to mine. Fine. But if you do, we are not going to be friends. I think that’s reasonable. So, I think my Facebook friends pretty much fall into the category of “people who share my politics,” with very few exceptions. They are also people who care about things, people who post about different causes. This includes the white folks on my friends list. My white Facebook friends are mostly liberal democrat/independent types, queer or ally, feminist people who post about those things. And yet, whenever I post about race, they are silent.
Why?
They are people I like, so I want to give them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they are silent because they don’t know what to say. Maybe they feel uncomfortable about chiming in on a subject that is so touchy. Maybe. But a simple “like” doesn’t require any comment. A simple “like” would show that you at least read the article, that you at least gave enough of a fuck to follow the link and get informed.
Or maybe they think they don’t have a right to comment because they are white and it’s not their place. That it’s for black people to discuss issues of racism, that they’d be overstepping by commenting. This answer only makes sense if they don’t see racism as their problem. If they don’t see the oppression of racialized people as part of the history and present of their own country. If they don’t know that their involvement in these discussions is necessary, even if it’s scary, even if it’s hard. Which maybe they don’t.
And I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but I am. Again, these are not random white folks. These are my “friends.” These are people I like, and who like me. Some of them I even love. I imagine that some of them love me. And yet, when yet another black person is murdered in cold blood, for the crime of being black, or locked up for “stealing” an education for their kid, they don’t seem to see that it could have been my brother or my mother. They don’t seem to know that it could have been me.
Because it is me. I have had the experience of being racially profiled a thousand times. I have had a white person characterize me as “violent” for no other reason than a look I gave them, for something they “saw in my eyes.” I live in a world where I am believed to be dangerous because a white person says I am. Case closed. I have never committed a crime, but I am terrified of the police. Because I know that if one day they decide I did something, whether I did it or not, my life could be over. Just like that. And this is not just true of me. It is true of every black person you know, regardless of gender or age or education level or artistic talents or any other factor. And yet my white “friends” don’t seem to know that. They don’t seem to understand. They don’t seem to want to.
White privilege is a hell of a thing. It makes it possible for my white “friends” to look the other way when a tragedy of as much magnitude as the Trayvon Martin killing happens. If it’s too much, they can just choose not to read it, not to think about it. But we don’t all have that option.
So, I want to say this to my white friends: I need you to care about this. And I need you to show that you do, by commenting, by sharing, by making noise about this. I need you to be OUTRAGED. Because otherwise, I can’t trust you. Otherwise, you are part of the problem. Otherwise, we are not really friends at all.
Read the follow-up to this post here.
Read more Black Girl Dangerous here.
**Mia McKenzie is the creator of Black Girl Dangerous and the Black Girl Dangerous Photography Project. She is a writer (winner of the Leeway Foundation’s Transformation Award, winner of the Astraea Foundation’s Writers Fund Award), a reader, a photographer, an activist, and a nerd.
Liquor&Spice: I need everyone to flame the everloving shit out of @JessicaValenti →
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I am not kidding. Callout-culture that pendeja to tears.
Ayo white feminist allies, come get your peoples ^
I think Valenti has a Tumblr, too? Not sure.
Ask…
I apologize if I came off in an “oh, let me just lay some truth down here” kind of way.It’s not what I meant to do, and I obviously don’t have any of the experience or knowledge that you do on the subject. I really wasn’t trying to say that—ultimately, I just don’t understand why the original tweet is problematic, nor did I see any real explanation in the thread surrounding your original request for a Valenti flambe.
I guess I haven’t really figured out a way to question the way a POC would feel about something without either sounding like a pedantic, oblivious ass or acting like I was somehow entitled to say “hello, real live Person of Colour, it is your job to educate the clueless White lady, because I can’t be held responsible for being ignorant!”.
So again, I’m sorry. I do sound like a dick in my post, and I’m tempted to go back and erase it, but I should probably continue on with that on my conscience.
My first reaction to your original question would be that it is less that the words Valenti said are untrue, certainly there’s victim blaming in both cases, but more that she is shifting the focus/co-opting this issue. Yeah, sure the media are blaming Martin for his own death, but focusing on the various ways they are dragging his name through the mud is shifting away from/watering down what should be the central focus, which is race. Zimmerman wasn’t thinking, Hmm, I wonder if this kid has ever smoked pot. That’s not why he shot him. And debating the various tangents the media is spinning off into, or making analogies to other situations, or whatever, while all that stuff may be valid it just creates noise which distracts from the uncomfortable truth that racism and racial profiling are alive and well today, and that a relatively “normal” white guy (not some complete raving lunatic, I don’t believe that) can shoot a unarmed black teen and THE AUTHORITIES WILL DO FUCK-ALL ABOUT IT. WHAT THE EVER-LOVING FUCK.
[I am also an over-privileged, snot-nosed white girl. I benefit every day from white supremacy, and don’t do nearly enough to undermine it. But I feel like part of being in solidarity with POC is leaving space, not being an ass, admitting when I’m wrong, listening, and not trying to make discussions of racism about me. So maybe I should have taken some more of that and THIS excellent advice to heart, and mostly shut up. But also, part of not-actively-supporting-white supremacy is calling out and talking to other white people about it, I think, and Katie you are my friend, and so yeah. I wanted to talk about this, and about why we and other white people, especially privileged ones should care about Valenti’s tweet. Original poster: If I just came off spewing a ton of shit, then I apologize profusely. Not your job to tell me where I’m wrong, I’ll just trust you if you say I am and try to better educate myself on issues before posting about them again.]
I bought it.*
*The dress. Also some bath bombs. I’m going to soak off work stress in the tub and drink and read a fantasy novel, ASAP.
the perils of meeting friends and lovers online
The Internet is an interesting place. There are a lot of things floating about out here, many of them fascinating and most of them dull or infuriating or horrifying.
One of the things you can find on and through this here internet is people. Other people you can watch and be watched by and interact with in any number of ways. And again, many of those people are dull/infuriating/horrifying. But there are also all kinds of amazing wonderful fantastic people. Some of whom you might one day have met without aid of the web, but many of whom you surely would not.
And that is excellent. And it is also often alienating and heartbreaking.
I have met some really amazing people online, and I am so glad to have (had) them in my life. People who are super interesting and compatible with me in a variety of ways, and who also challenge me in numerous ways. I’ve met friends and lovers and friends who became lovers and lovers who became friends.
But something I’ve noticed, which I used to hope was an occasional occurrence but now seems near-universal in my experience, is that relationships with people I’ve met online don’t seem to stick.
Sometimes it’s an issue of distance. The amazing thing about the web is you can make incredible connections with people who live far away. This is also one of the most heartbreaking things at times.
Distance exacerbates the other big thing I’m noticing, which happens even with people who only live a few blocks away: online you often meet people you might not otherwise run into, but this can also make it harder to fit those relationships into the rest of your life.
It took til the 171st note for someone to look at my body in clothes and comment on my unhealthy lifestyle! I feel like this is progress, maybe? My failure to completely adhere to the rules of feminine gender presentation was actually brought up first. I could respond to both things more directly, but why bother! I’m just gonna try to have a good day even though work sucks, and fantasize about it being the weekend/spring again.
(ETA: It’s not that I don’t think challenging body/gender policing isn’t important, because it is very important. It’s more that people have overwhelmingly been very nice, and I’m not used to strangers commenting on my body in this format, and so it’s been a lot of Oh, Gee Guys, Really? Shucks! and blushing.)
New Black Panthers offer $10,000 bounty for capture of George Zimmerman →
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SANFORD — Members of the New Black Panther Party are offering a $10,000 reward for the “capture” of George Zimmerman, the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin.
New Black Panther leader Mikhail Muhammad announced the reward during a protest in Sanford Saturday. And when asked whether he was inciting violence, Muhammad replied defiantly: “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”
The bounty announcement came moments after members of the group called for the mobilization of 10,000 black men to capture Zimmerman, who shot Trayvon in a gated Sanford community on Feb. 26.
Muhammad said members of his group would search for Zimmerman themselves in Maitland — where the 28-year old worked before the shooting, employees there told the Orlando Sentinel. He declined to say when the group would begin their search.
Muhammad said the group’s national chairman, Dr. Malik Zulu Shabaz of Washington, D.C. is receiving donations from black entertainers and athletes. They hope to collect $1 million by next week, Muhammad said.
The party said they would not release the names of donors nor would they provide documentation to support the existence of donations.
The New Black Panthers announced the reward at a protest in Sanford Saturday, the activist group’s third protest in the past two weeks over the fatal shooting of the Miami Gardens teen.
The group called for Zimmerman’s arrest and threatened to find and detain him if police were not willing to do so. But group members didn’t call for the mobilization of thousands until Saturday.
Muhammed led the group in chanting “Justice for Trayvon!” and “Black Power!”
“If the government won’t do the job, we’ll do it,” Muhammad said, leading his group of eight party members in chants like “freedom or death” and “justice for Trayvon” while making the iconic gesture of raising their fists into the air.
City officials issued a statement, they said was approved by Sanford Police Captain Robert O’Connor, condemning the group’s appeal and asking citizens to leave all arrests to them.
“The City is requesting calm heads and no vigilante justice,” the statement said. “Attempts by civilians to take any person into custody may result in criminal charges or unnecessary violence.”
The party members said they are tired of the inaction of government officials — from Sanford city officials up to the Governor, accusing them of lying and delaying justice.
They accused newly-appointed special prosecutor Angela Corley of being an enemy of the black community.
“She has a track record of sending innocent young black men and women to prison,” he said.
Sanford police arrived toward the end of the demonstration Saturday asking onlookers and media to avoid walking into the street in front of The Retreat at Twin Lakes where Trayvon was killed.
As the officer walked back to his cruiser, Muhammad berated and pointed angrily at him saying “If you’d had shown this much concern, Trayvon may still be alive today.”
The fiery rhetoric and often profanity-laden diatribes made some visitors to the impromptu memorial uncomfortable.
Pastor Moses Brown of Tampa said he was disappointed with the Panthers’ approach.
“We believe in a message of justice, not hate,” said Brown, who was in town to pray at the memorial and attend the Monday event at Sanford’s Civic Center. “We believe justice will come through the court system.”
Copyright © 2012, Orlando Sentinel
“Attempts by civilians to take any person into custody may result in criminal charges or unnecessary violence.”
“Attempts by civilians to take any person into custody may result in criminal charges or unnecessary violence.”
“Attempts by civilians to take any person into custody may result in criminal charges or unnecessary violence.”
YOU MEAN LIKE THE UNNECESSARY VIOLENCE THAT KILLED TRAYVON THAT HAS SO FAR NOT RESULTED IN CRIMINAL CHARGES, YOU FUCKERS?
SO NON-BLACK FOLK CAN CLAIM SELF-DEFENSE AND “STAND THEIR GROUND”, BUT WHEN BLACK FOLK DO IT, IT’S DECRIED AS “UNNECESSARY VIOLENCE”?
FUCK YOU, SANFORD POLICE. FUCK. YOU.
how is this real life?
how?
This is infuriating.
(Reblogged from phone, so may be truncated. Please click through.)
In Other News:
- I spent most of today walking around in the gorgeous spring weather, feeling like a total babe.
- I’ve finally started that book my boss lent me. The last time he lent me a book it was American Gods, and it took me 8 or 10 months to actually start reading it, and it was fucking amazing, and I devoured it in a week or so, and it reawakened my love of reading. So hopefully this one will be good. As of a few pages in it seems promising.
- I have contacts again for the first time in months, just in time for weather that justifies sunglasses.
- People are talking about (clothes on) my body on the internet. Commentary has pushed me over into definitely buying the black/red dress. It’s gonna happen.
- Ordering from Hon’s last night was a good life choice, as I got dinner, brunch, dinner, and tomorrow’s dinner (plus brunch for my roomie) out of it. And minimal dishes!
- I finally bought a replacement frame for one of my Katie West portraits, since I broke the original one right after I hung it.
- Making flirty eye contact with strangers you pass on the sidewalk is way easier in East Van.
- I cleaned shit. Finally.
TL;DR: Spring makes everything better.
