Elle Driver
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Can we not? Pls
"Black Features Are Beautiful. Black Women Are Not" - Amandla Stenberg
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Can we not? Pls
Oceanicpuppy
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Black women have to deal with putting race or gender first.
Black men get mad ( and you've seen it many times on this board) when Black women but their gender first even when there is a justified reason to. Same thing with other women getting mad when you put your race first. It's definitely a balancing act for Black women.
White women are free to co-op features and styles seen on black women because number one they are the default and number 2 they are stigmatized a "pure" "chaste" and "innocent". A big booty on a white woman is not sexualized in same manner as it is on a black woman. I see the undertone even on this board with black men and this PAWG movement. Just look at how the members comment on black women with ass and then white women with ass. Much more harsh comments and men liking black females to beast and animals.
Black men get mad ( and you've seen it many times on this board) when Black women but their gender first even when there is a justified reason to. Same thing with other women getting mad when you put your race first. It's definitely a balancing act for Black women.
White women are free to co-op features and styles seen on black women because number one they are the default and number 2 they are stigmatized a "pure" "chaste" and "innocent". A big booty on a white woman is not sexualized in same manner as it is on a black woman. I see the undertone even on this board with black men and this PAWG movement. Just look at how the members comment on black women with ass and then white women with ass. Much more harsh comments and men liking black females to beast and animals.
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It's not that you guys are being forgotten,
It's the fact that black men are in worse shape.
Oceanicpuppy
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Coming from a mix breed with a white father?
She is a young woman of color with a Black mother. She comes from a place of more authenticity when speaking about race and gender then say a Black Man.
So please, hush.
Elle Driver
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Oceanicpuppy
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Are you a female of color? Because I'm not understanding why you feel entitled to speak over females of color when you have NEVER lived your life as one. Your experiences are not going to be the same point blank period! This isn't even up for debate
This system she has a grievance with was put in place by men who look like her white father. The seed of a cac has zero room to talk.
Um. Ghouls
All Star
Thoughts?
Opinion pieces like this seem to serve naught but to attempt to persuade a certain race to acquiesce to black beauty standards. They shouldn't, and frankly I am long past caring about what the average twitter cac thinks. There are better ways to fix this (self esteem issues) that are, thankfully, picking up steam. Black girls rock was nice, and so is Tumblrs 'blackout', Michael may be labeled creepy, but perhaps that 'beauty of everyday black women' thread raised someones self esteem.
I am in the interest of freeing my black brothers from their poisonous mindsets, an affect of imperialism, so that they can appreciate black beauty.
Am I wrong in not thinking fondly of a black woman in antebellum (I believe, if not that than some other whitewashed bullshyt) fashion, yelling out to -something- about eurocentric standards of beauty, and their effects on black women?
Stop begging cacs to find you pretty.
Opinion pieces like this seem to serve naught but to attempt to persuade a certain race to acquiesce to black beauty standards. They shouldn't, and frankly I am long past caring about what the average twitter cac thinks. There are better ways to fix this (self esteem issues) that are, thankfully, picking up steam. Black girls rock was nice, and so is Tumblrs 'blackout', Michael may be labeled creepy, but perhaps that 'beauty of everyday black women' thread raised someones self esteem.
I am in the interest of freeing my black brothers from their poisonous mindsets, an affect of imperialism, so that they can appreciate black beauty.
Am I wrong in not thinking fondly of a black woman in antebellum (I believe, if not that than some other whitewashed bullshyt) fashion, yelling out to -something- about eurocentric standards of beauty, and their effects on black women?
Stop begging cacs to find you pretty.
Are you a female of color? Because I'm not understanding why you feel entitled to speak over females of color when you have NEVER lived your life as one. Your experiences are not going to be the same point blank period! This isn't even up for debate
I'm not trying to take away from the issues black women face.
But the fact is you guys are doing better than we are.
Elle Driver
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Nobody asking anybody to find us pretty, but to dehumanize us and then praise themselves for having our features is ridiculous.
If she's challenging it then I don't see the problem.
Um. Ghouls
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Stop trying to reason with cacs. It is functional begging, and a waste of time.
That's what it boils down to.