Nikkole is my power animal.
if it’s tl;dr - Some guys are like ‘people are being a racist/sexist against us white males. WE don’t benefit from racism, why can’t WE have a white/male/straight parade? POOR POOR US WHITE STRAIGHT GUYS.’ And then Nikkole is all BAM! FEMINIST HULK SMASH! You must read the last two comments, I would be doing a disservice if I tried to shorten them.
My friend views Japanese men and gay men as her entertainment. When we go out in public she squeals loudly and points if there is a gay couple walking by. More than once she has tried to drag me with her to stalk them. I’ve told her how I feel about this. Her excuse: “But it’s so cute!” Like we…
Fucking hell, talk about objectification. Disgusting.
Yep, it is. It might seem counter-intuitive, but think about it. The argument for promoting and valuing diversity in workplaces, teams, schools, etc, is that it creates a more effective team in a global marketplace. Bullshit. Race doesn’t matter. I’m not saying we’re really in a postracial world, but race itself is only an issue insofar as people use it to discriminate. Say, by promoting diversity. In doing so, these people are saying that we’re different, based on our race/gender alone, and that a mixture of differences is necessary. But that’s shit. I can concede that maybe having a guy from India on my team would yield some crazy “Back in my hometown of Karnuji” anecdote that inspires a great idea, but the same could happen with a guy from Arkansas.
What you want is a diverse set of skills, not a set of diverse people.
This post was inspired by Purdue’s Fundamentals of Engineering course.
Fuck you, diversity. Your time as a buzzword needs to end.
Actually, slaxxor, what we want is people of color and women to have equal opportunity. Otherwise, it’s just white men getting the jobs - that’s what happens when you don’t have rules about this stuff. How do we know? Because of history.
White male engineer trying to defend why we don’t need diversity in the workplace, surprise surprise. When I still have to work twice as hard as my peers just to be taken seriously as an engineer, just because I’m a one of the only person in my firm who’s a) under 25, b) Asian, and c) a girl, the workplace is NOT equal. So…
STFU, Racist.
It really is amazing the crap people come up with to defend racism.
(Source: mastercellophane)
Look, fair warning in advance, this is most likely gonna sound blunt.
But hey, that’s cool if you like learning about other cultures. That doesn’t mean that you need to appropriate and or take on another culture. You need to realize that taking on and off different…
Oh heylo!
You may not know me, but let me remind you of a few of the manymany things you like about what comes under ‘my’ culture — Goddess Kali, the exotic old wise men, mehendi and add any exotic looking garment here — I’m sure now you get what I’m talking about. Oh I forgot to add conveniently sultry looking brown men to lust after — wattodo in the middle of icky racism, I forget how many ways you can dehumanise and objectify a culture.
If you think I’m getting so “touchy” and “sensitive” about tufts of ‘my’ culture that you pick and choose and then assemble with whiteness to make it seem *good*, then you’re wrong. I don’t fucking care if you dress in sarees all day, name your pets after Hindu deities or whatever new pantsless thing you can think of.
My problem with *you* specifically is that what are just ‘garments’ or ‘just a name’ have obvious and many times overt cultural significance for many people, especially the culture you just objectified. With that, you willfully ignore that *we* have are breathing entities and you cannot walk all over us. The reason this is racist is you’ve reduced an entire culture to what seems appealing to *you* to what will look good on YOUR nice imperial skin, once again invalidating our daily lived realities.
My biggest problem with you is that you’re feminists and still don’t see what is so terrible about cultural appropriation. You can be outraged when it comes to rape culture or abortions and then turn around and do something outrageously racist and expect us to not retort back.
Which essentially comes down to — your feminism is a-okay till it fits the white, western, cisgendered, able-bodied and preferably middle class standards and whoever don’t fit can just “draw back” from the movement, no? Sorry, I’m not about to give up something I love because you are so dedicated to showing off just how big an arsehole you are. If you go around saying you’re feminist, now add a few words to it — Privilege Denying Feminist.
So no, telling us to “not ID as feminist if you have so many problems with everything” is NOT an option. What you can do is, stop fucking up.
No love as always,
J.
Jaded, killing it as always.
If you’re not Native American, you have zero right to wear them, basically! The native people of the Americas were mass murdered, evicted from their lands and the ones that survived are still treated like shit and dehumanised. Their culture has been MASSIVELY ripped off by hipsters and ignorant people who don’t care to learn about the history behind it. Headdresses and the like have huge cultural significance and should be respected, not used as a fashion accessory.
There is a country where the leading cause of death of pregnant women is murder by a partner. In this same country, more than a million women were raped in 2008 and women are much more likely to live in poverty than men. Local laws don’t protect their right to bodily freedom and integrity; some rape laws even state that once a woman initially consents to sex, she doesn’t have the right to change her mind.
You may have caught on by now — yes, I’m talking about the United States.
Jessica Valenti, in “Equality begins at home: U.S. lags pathetically behind other nations in some basic rights for women.” (via thedailyfeed)
Oh, but by all means let’s continue to exploit the international issues of “those brown people over there” to gain sympathy for feminism, guys. /sarcasm
But seriously, it’s shocking how many mainstream feminists are eager to tell everyone about how the burka is really oppressive and FGM is the foremost women’s issue that requires absolutely no nuance in “our” dealings with it (because, um, western feminists are apparently qualified to solve any and all cultural problems with absolutely no regard for the efforts of women within those motherfucking communities already).
And the people who are inevitably attracted to those kinds of culturally-imperialist, often racist, often islamophobic, campaigns are not the fucking people we want in y/our movement. They are gross, and they will eventually tell you to “move to Saudi Arabia, where women have real problems.”
(via somewhatofsomethingother)
Yeah I’ve heard that “move to Saudi” line, fucking disgusting.
Now I’m all for racial equality, but until we get Asian actors who can A) act, and B) speak clear engrish, then let them cast Fassbender, McAvoy and Hedlund all they want.
#loses followers
Now I’m all for people saying what they want
But when they start spewing racist, uneducated shit (seriously, bro? What the fuck are you on?)
Then please let me start calling them out on their bullshit
#loses faith in humanity
Wow.
The following are 10 conversations that I would be happy never to have with white peepul ever, ever, ever again. While there are countless others, these are at least 10 that I’m forced to endure far too often.
this is EXCELLENT and hilarious
OMG NUMBER 8. Seriously, bringing up race should not immediately radicalize me.
NUMBER 4.
““Ho hum Neo, that’s just the way So&So is. And they’re not going to change, so you’re just going to have to accept how they treat you, even if it is demeaning. And you know, do it with a smile.”
“Well Neo, that’s just the way things are, yes we live in the land of freedom and democracy and equality but you’re going to be discriminated against. You just have to accept it. And you know, do it with a smile.”
Ummm…….fuck you? *smiles*”
Damn. Fantastic rant.
