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A quasi-academic look at Feminism, politics & race relations through the lens of a 20-something year old Nigerian American who was born & raised up in the (still) segregated south but has relocated to the "liberal" yet historic & traditional north.
This blog is my space for an interdisciplinary examination of race, gender, class, sexuality - all things intersectional & multi-dimensional.
Feminism the way I see it...



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Posts tagged "gendered racism"

More on the exotification & hypersexualization of black men. Imagine being a black man who has to deal with the fact that most women they encounter are going to impose these ideals on to them and expect nothing more than them to be this hyper-aggressive, sexual object. When you cross cultural lines, gender power structures can definitely work the other way…

andreaisace:

Asian woman was at the counter. Boss was talking her up, probably thought she was cute (he flirts with a lot of young lady customers. Or just lady customers, really). Later he said she had the personality of a mule (because she didn’t flirt back, probably. She wasn’t joking around. To me she just seemed like she wanted her stew and garlic bread) and then said “she’s probably off to her job at the massage parlor”

Be careful ladies - everyone knows that you’re required to flirt back with anyone who intends on bothering you during your brief lunch break or you’re AUTOMATICALLY a terrible person.

ugh - racist sexism asshole!

What a stereotype is at base, is something that is deeply dehumanising. One minute you are walking down the street, with full of awareness of how you are a human being with thoughts and feelings and dreams and a family and a life. The next minute, all someone has to say is something like “Asian women are well known throughout the world for their exotic beauty and sensitive nature” or “Black women are kinky freaks” and suddenly, you stop existing as a human. You only exist as part of someone else’s two-dimensional vision of you; a vision that really has nothing to do with who you are, or how you are human.