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saneoldsameold:

I’m not going to address the ‘white girls get it too omg’ bullshit because they do, but it’s always different. I’m writing this as a woman of color who’s experienced street harassment more times than I can count.

First off, I think people need to realize that this isn’t just basic misogyny when it comes to women of color. It’s misogyny and whiteness showing both their ugly faces simultaneously. Because misogyny treats white women completely differently.

But whiteness tells US (WOC) some whole other shit, mainly two things:
1. Black and brown women are sexually undesirable (unless of course, they’re light)
2. Black and brown are always sexually available

and that combination of ideas is what’s really so dangerous about street harassment. Because if you believe both, then you believe that Black and brown women SHOULD BE HAPPY when you harass them on the street. You’re not even desirable, you should be fucking flattered. Men who perpetrate street harassment are under the impression that I owe them my time and that their harassment should be taken as a complement because I have brown skin. And that is what makes street harassment genuinely dangerous- the sense of entitlement to ME.

I had a guy tell me once when he scared the shit out of me by following me into a corner store (I was 15) because I freaked and didn’t give him my name, ‘Man I ain’t finna take this shit from no bitch.’

What he meant was, you’re brown. Be happy I just harassed you. Street harassment isn’t just misogyny at work- it’s whiteness telling men how to treat Black and brown women.

All of this. The sense of entitlement that men have while they are cat calling me scares the shit out of me. One night, I was walking with my best friend to the train station when 3 young men (probably younger than me and I’m 20) began to street harass us and follow us. Even though they were younger than us I still felt scared simply for the fact that they thought I owed them something. It’s a scary feeling knowing that someone who can threaten you with violence believes you owe them something and they have nothing to lose by taking it from you.

kingjaffejoffer:

This is a 15 minute North Korea film about American propaganda, and how the powers that be keep Americans docile by encouraging us to sit in front of the TV, and worship celebrities and shopping. 

Of course, we know that this is the biggest instance of the pot calling the kettle black ever because North Korea is the biggest propaganda machine on Earth and they treat their people like animals. 

But with that said, a lot of this stuff about America is true. 

Truth hurts man…

washingtonpoststyle:

Eartha Kitt on men, and compromise.

via Ben Carver

(via thecoolintellectual)

Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”. “Friendzone” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “no”.

—(via buildingmosaicsoutoflife)

(Source: angels-and-angles, via kenyan4life)