When I was young (14-16), I'd witnessed straight male classmates make jokes to their bi and gay friends about how they better not hit on them. Since then, I'd seen other straight women do this too. The cruelty with which this "acceptance" was laced was so obvious to me. How is not immediate to someone …
Category: privilege
How do I make this the biography in every book I publish?
Me: There are white converts on this thread who think we will prioritize them over black Muslims. This girl: I busted out laughing at this so hard because that's exactly the image I project online yet I'm somehow surprised when that's what people gather. My mother worked in an assembly line and raised us alone. …
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Expect children to assert themselves.
I quite enjoy children who talk back to me. Presenting a line of reasoning to a child or, as with my 15-year-old disciple, Misha (who will tell you she is an adult) considering her arguments about what I’ve written is an invaluable experience. I can't for the life of me imagine why anyone would want …
Men cannot properly use the term “white feminism.”
I never let a white man pass when he's accusing a white woman of white feminism because I recognize immediately that he's using that term because he thinks he's exempt. The term in this usage adopts a sexist dynamic that targets BIWoC and ww and non-binary people. After all, why would a white man choose …
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Enough.
In response to descriptions of Ansari’s sexual misconduct, Caitlin Flanagan wrote a horrendous article which I will not link (but you have undoubtedly seen) with many memorable quotes, including this one: “I thought it would take a little longer for the hit squad of privileged young white women to open fire on brown-skinned men. I …
4.1-3
For those of you who'd actually like to be able to read this, clicking the image to enlarge will render it crispier. Alternatively, you can access the clear PDF version. And no, whenever I present one of these here, it isn't complete. There's a lot of exegesis in the blank portions unreleased in this capacity.
The Oath Possesses Your Right Hand
Shortly after reading my article regarding polygamy, a beloved friend of mine (shoutout) maintained that “the responsibility possessing your right hand” should remain “the responsibility your right hand possesses” (translated across all other versions as “what your right hands possess”) because it is grammatically the right hand that is doing the possessing. I could see …
the fatal feminist 