taylor slutshaming white supremacist special snowflake swift
Now I knew that I didn’t like this bitch. First the slut-shamed filled lyrical content of her shit songs - her use of homophobic lyrical content… and now this. Fuck her.
this pic is super super old but still my favorite thing esp because i remember her publicist said when this happened that taylor didn’t know what the symbol was god it’s just so beautiful i want to frame it and hang it on my wall
i just want to take a moment to point out that even though this pic is mad old, she STILL has a career. she STILL has won grammys and music awards. she’s STILL america’s sweetheart. now if any person of colour fucked up on this scale…consider yourself over faster than you started.
I never liked her and I’m glad I knew who not to like from day one…
“I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho, and that it was a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.”
Edmonia Lewis was a neoclassical Black and Native American sculptor. Her work often had Biblical themes or themes of freedom or of famous Americans including many abolitionists. She often depicted African, African-American, and Native American peoples in her work.
She described her father as “a full-blooded African” and gentleman’s servant and her mother as full-blooded Chippewa (Ojibwa). After years of much criticism concerning her work, she left America, stating,
“Instead of fooling here, with our people aping the prejudices of whites, I am going back to Italy, to do something for the race—something that will excite the admiration of the other races of the earth.”
Hip-hop was a problem because an underclass that had been left to die didn’t, and instead created a music decrying their conditions that was vivid, troubling and beautiful, a declaration of existence in the face of those who’d condemned them to oblivion. It screwed up the narrative, and thus was born an anti-rap racism in which symptom became cause, laments of violence and deprivation becoming justifications for violence and deprivation. Anti-rap racists hear rap music as proof that black men pose a uniquely violent danger to the American status quo, even as the entire trajectory of that status quo suggests it’s the other way around. As theories of history go it’s both aggressively incorrect and depressingly unoriginal.
Disliking hip-hop doesn’t make you a racist any more than liking hip-hop makes you not a racist, and I’m sure there are plenty of Stormfront enthusiasts with Rick Ross in their iTunes. If you don’t like Jay-Z because you just don’t like the way he sounds, or you’re sick of his cloying ubiquity, or you wish he’d talk about something other than where he’s from for five seconds—hey, I’m not mad, I don’t like Bruce Springsteen for the same reasons. But if you don’t like rap music—a genre that contains multitudes—because of a self-satisfied moralism, or because you’re scared of it, or because you wish those people would stop talking about their problems and get out of your television and radio and kids’ bedrooms: well.
Surprisingly nuanced commentary on Muslim women that moves past the “Muslim women are helpless victims of bestial Muslim men, to be rescued by Westerners!” trope. On BoingBoing, too. How uncharacteristic.
I think it’s an interesting question too, considering how local Malaysian artistes like Yuna — who made it to Conan O’Brien’s show — still emphasize a slim conventionally pretty look.
And yes, you can still be harmful as hell when your models and products imply that what is wrong with you is that you are not slender and Caucasian enough.
And geez. Those shoes are STILL as impractical as hell.
1. Dan Savage hates trans people and uses transphobic slurs.
“Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives. Perhaps I’m a transphobic bigot, but I honestly think waiting a measly 36 months to cut your dick is a sacrifice any father…
Why are material goods and wealth such a bad thing for marginalized people that their wanting and coveting (the trappings of) material wealth is seen as counter-productive, bad, demoralizing?
What’s wrong with wanting physical, tangible, purchaseable nice things? (I mean other…
