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drinkyourjuice:

Oh jesus christ, because they’re humans, not because they’re women of color. Did I mention race at all? At any point in those sentences did I use any lens other than the “sexuality” lens to look at that video? I was talking about how reductive twerking is re: sex, especially re: women. So I had myself in the bucket with those women in that comparison. I’m a baboon too in that comparison.
I’ve modified the sentence, so hopefully I’ve clarified myself and prevented further misinterpretation, but ugh. Just ugh with this.
And, to be fair, there are a couple Latina chicks in the video too. Everyone can twerk. Twerking knows no race.

If you think it’s “Ugh,” then you really don’t get the point. You’re particularly missing the mark when you have the nerve to follow up a comparison of women of color to primates (which is what you did) with some rant about gender politics.
I’ve followed you for a long time, and you’re generally pretty funny and I enjoyed your posts. For me as a Black person, this was intolerable.
Somebody told me you made some edits, which I read. Your edits still make you come off as ignorant, and I’ll explain why.
You, as I’m sure you’ve noticed, are a white woman. That video is filled with women of color. There have been centuries of heavy, ugly, demeaning racist depictions of my people as apes, babboons, monkies and they were created by a society seeking to deprive us of our humanness. They are fueled by fear, prejudice and the pursuit of making an entire people feel collectively less than one person.
It’s kind of like you called my momma a cunt, to her face, and she didn’t do anything to you.
Your intention is quite irrelevant in this situation. It is the placement of your language and context of your race. It will never be appropriate for you to compare Black people to primates. You will never prove that you’re intellectual by compare people of color to primates. The only thing it proves is that you are ignorant.
I found your response to be incredibly immature.
Read this article, and think about what you’ve written and the gravity of your Whitness.

Oh jesus christ, because they’re humans, not because they’re women of color. Did I mention race at all? At any point in those sentences did I use any lens other than the “sexuality” lens to look at that video? I was talking about how reductive twerking is re: sex, especially re: women. So I had myself in the bucket with those women in that comparison. I’m a baboon too in that comparison.

I’ve modified the sentence, so hopefully I’ve clarified myself and prevented further misinterpretation, but ugh. Just ugh with this.

And, to be fair, there are a couple Latina chicks in the video too. Everyone can twerk. Twerking knows no race.

If you think it’s “Ugh,” then you really don’t get the point. You’re particularly missing the mark when you have the nerve to follow up a comparison of women of color to primates (which is what you did) with some rant about gender politics.

I’ve followed you for a long time, and you’re generally pretty funny and I enjoyed your posts. For me as a Black person, this was intolerable.

Somebody told me you made some edits, which I read. Your edits still make you come off as ignorant, and I’ll explain why.

You, as I’m sure you’ve noticed, are a white woman. That video is filled with women of color. There have been centuries of heavy, ugly, demeaning racist depictions of my people as apes, babboons, monkies and they were created by a society seeking to deprive us of our humanness. They are fueled by fear, prejudice and the pursuit of making an entire people feel collectively less than one person.

It’s kind of like you called my momma a cunt, to her face, and she didn’t do anything to you.

Your intention is quite irrelevant in this situation. It is the placement of your language and context of your race. It will never be appropriate for you to compare Black people to primates. You will never prove that you’re intellectual by compare people of color to primates. The only thing it proves is that you are ignorant.

I found your response to be incredibly immature.

Read this article, and think about what you’ve written and the gravity of your Whitness.