You then wrote a thoughtful response, which you wrapped up with "I'm special. I, and others like me, are an exception to this "rule" because I am smart enough to know when it can be broken." Read more
LOL!!! Stealing. Read more
A slippery slope to what? You not being able to have all the fun you want on demand? Read more
What's with this abyssmally lazy habit of just substituting the word "Black" and thinking you've made a point? How about making an actual argument for why you think there's a relevant equivalency and what that means?
It's the accent mostly I think. Read more
Mmmmm...yeah, it's hard to disagree with any of this. But then again, shorthand is used for a reason. It's a useful convenient way to boil down concepts that are in reality nuanced to the point of being unwieldy into into compact, easily digestible categories. Read more
And yet I'm still waiting on my taser alarm clock... Read more
My mom will do this for you for free. Read more
GROSS. Read more
I know who does it better...#grannyftw Read more
Thank you for this! Read more
Listen, I'm not sure what it is you're fighting. I don't see anybody stopping Black women from crassly exploiting their bodies for (mostly other people's) profit. I don't see anybody burdening Black women the expectation that we be demure porcelain dolls. No no, that's not for us. We're the video vixens. We're the big… Read more
I think it's very different from the "Beyonce is married so it's ok" argument (which wasn't ever really the argument I was making in the first place). Read more
But you don't get to decide what is or is not empowering for others, whether you share gender with them, race with them, or both. Read more
No matter how modest and chaste women and women of color make themselves, sexist men and racist whites still treat us badly and view us as less than. Disrimination, oppressive legislation, sexual harassment, and violence have never stopped in the name of 'sexual modesty' and never will. Read more
Yes, I'm critical of any woman who thinks merely taking her clothes and sticking her butt in the air is an act of unique personal expression or deep political importance. But White women's bodies have not been hypersexualized or commodified to anywhere near the same degree as Black women's bodies in Western/American… Read more
Well for starters Miley Cyrus is the one person you mentioned who doesn't actually have an ass. And for another thing she's a decade younger. Read more
I'm over all people applauding women for "owning [their] body and sexuality" every time they pull their ass and titties out in public. There is nothing new or per se empowering about that. Especially not for Black women. Read more
Laurence Fishburne is an asshole and I hope everything he touches fails. Read more