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Found a video of the poem I was talking about! Will repost tomorrow to force as many followers as possible to watch this.
Jamila Woods, Etymology of a Beauty Shop
Mar
27
“Black women’s bodies have been used and abused throughout history. The way we talk about black women still connects to themes from slavery and Jim crow. It’s actually really disheartening to see the lengths we have internalized and reproduced the mistreatment and exploitation of black women.”
NewWaveFeminism
Sep
19
“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
Roald Dahl
May
3
I am a conventionally attractive female
I am sick of being conventionally attractive. I am 19 years old, white, skinny, and 5’9”. I have reddish brown hair, and gray eyes. I have an hourglass figure, and a small frame. I have the body of a model. Most people would say that I am lucky. I have it all: I’m smart and pretty. Lucky? I don’t know about that.
Yes, sexist standards of appearance are bad for everyone, but your privilege? Is showing like WHOA. In a way that completely destroys any points you were trying to make about objectification and sexism and beauty standards for women in patriarchal society.
Also, this: www.worldstiniestviolin.com
Wow. I couldn’t even muster up the least bit of sympathy. It’s not that I don’t think this woman’s plight is not legitimate, it very well could be. However, there’s something so…odd about her writing. It comes off as a bit backhanded and indeed very privileged. I was surprised that there were so many sympathetic comments for her. It wasn’t until the 3rd to last and the very last comment that we really had anyone criticizing the blogpost. I loved the last comment:
Wow, your entitlement is showing. Way to complain about being a young, white, able bodied, conventionally attractive person. You have it so hard. How about critiquing patriarchy and male entitlement, the real culprit that oppresses us all, and not just complaining about how people don’t take you seriously cause you’re just too darn ~pretty~! Do you think they take people that don’t fall into as many of those categories more seriously? Well, you’re wrong, because they just treat those people like their existence doesn’t deserve to be acknowledged. I’m disappointed that this got posted without any constructive criticism from any editors.
Mar
31
“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
Roald Dahl
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