“Black women wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see Black women. White women wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see women. White men wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see human beings.”— Michelle Haimoff, on privilege (via jatigi)
(Source: homoarigato)
“If you are asking ever, why is this necessary to talk about power and privilege? I want to you believe me, believe every person who nods when I say this that whether you believe in power and privilege, whether you think that systems of oppression they still affect you. Whether you are a person who lives at the intersections of oppression or someone who has no idea what targets you hold, just know that as I stand up here systems of oppression and the agents (you and us) are working in line to keep this machine going. We are being used as weapons of systems that exclude, abuse and exploit people with limited power and target statuses. If you think that you understand all forms of oppression because you too are marginalized I want you to rethink that. We are taught from childhood to use our position in power, no matter how little power we have to put others down for not having the same power as us. We are taught to deny our experiences and to deny others theirs. We are taught to not believe in each other, to want quick answers, this is our internalized capitalism, to punish ourselves and others and put them through a jury of our oppressive messages (internalized prison industrial system.) We are taught that this is normal. Alejandro Jodorowsky says “Birds born in a cage think fly is an illness” so think about how these systems have caused you to believe that liberation work is impossible that it is pointless simply because you have never been given another way.”— Fabian Romero [excerpt from the keynote speech at Southeast Regional Unity Conference April 13, 2013 at UNC Chapel Hill] (via fabianromero)
“Free speech as a legal concept only guarantees you the right to speak. It doesn’t guarantee you the right to be heard, it doesn’t guarantee you the right to be agreed with, it certainly doesn’t guarantee you the right for your speech to not be challenged by someone else’s speech, and most importantly of all, it doesn’t mean you can’t suffer consequences if and when your free speech is used to cause harm to someone. Which is exactly what sexual harassment, racial slurs, and verbal bigotry are. That’s not censorship. That’s fairness.”—
“Not Okay”: MovieBob on Sexism and Harassment in Nerd Culture. (via jerrymuffinbutt)
always relevant
(via lettherebecramp)
Daily reminder that the reality of a situation is not contingent upon your comprehension.
If you don’t understand why something is problematic, it doesn’t cease to be problematic.
“Men’s misery does deserve sympathy, but not if it means we ignore how men contribute to that misery, where it comes from, and what men get in exchange for it. It’s all too easy to go from sympathy for men to forgetting that patriarchy and male privilege even exist. Part of what makes it so easy is misunderstanding what privilege is, where it comes from, and how it is distributed. Many men argue, for example, that men are privileged only to the degree that they feel privileged. A key aspect of privilege, however, is to be unaware of it as privilege. In addition, even though men as a group are privileged in society, factors such as race, class, sexual orientation, and disability status affect how much privilege each man gets to enjoy and how he experiences it. Privilege can take many forms, and its distribution among people in a society is a complicated process. Privilege can be something as simple as being heard and taken seriously when we say something, of being served promptly and courteously in a store or restaurant, or of being free to move around or express an opinion. It can take the form of wealth or power or having other people clean up after us and take care of our needs. In every case, what makes something privilege is the unequal way in which it is distributed and the effect it has of elevating some people over others.”— Allan G. Johnson, The Gender Knot (via wretchedoftheearth)
In terms of viewership, people care mostly about you. It’s not “what are we doing to alienate women, especially WOC? What are we doing to alienate LGBTQ-identifying people?” It’s “how can we sort of slip in some of this trendy okay-with-gay my-best-friend-is-black stuff without alienating our bread-and-butter cis straight white male viewers, who we hand everything to on a silver platter balanced on a cushion?”
I don’t like movies. Once I was made embarrassingly aware of whitewashing, I liked them even less. I want movies to regularly come out, a few every season, with the three main characters including hero, best friend, love interest, being POCs and LGBTQ people. I don’t like this pissy little cowardly sticking-to-the-mold thing that’s going on that whitewashed 21 and wanted to whitewash/completely screw up the script for a live action Akira. I’ll describe Hollywood for you in a few words: rich, straight cis white males making mistakes for a living.
ps.
Those bullshit stereotypes don’t count.
(Straight, White, Cis) Male Privilege #62
The scene in Made in Dagenham when Eddie’s all like ‘I’m alright, I don’t get drunk, I don’t hit you or the kids’ and Rita goes off sarcastically about what a privilege that is and what a saint he is and she gets REALLY angry and is all like ‘rights are not privileges, it’s as simple as that’ and ‘that’s how it should be.’
That is one of my favourite scenes ever and one of my favourite movies and I just really love it, the acting, the story, the history, it’s SO GOOD.
I realize I don’t know you, but can I just say omfgyes!!??
“You can’t take a joke” is usually just code for “I’m an asshole, stop bringing attention to the fact that I’m a shitty person”
(Source: agender-unicorn)
Upsetting someone is their fault and apologizing is “optional”. You decide if something you said or did was offensive or not. The people who found it offensive are just being too sensitive.
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