Christian J., the blogger behind What Men Are Saying About Women and the inventor of the infamous MRA two-dot ellipsis, has always been an open racist as well as a misogynist, letting drop horrific comments from time to time on why he thinks black women are the worst kind of women in the world.
But today he’s sort of outdone himself with a post titled Why Black Women are More Repulsive than any Other..
Christian lays out his thesis statement in his first sentence:
I have made no effort to hide my disgust about black females as they do really deserve every criticism they get.
What follows is a largely incoherent stream-of consciousness rant unencumbered by logic or the correct use of language.
Christian starts off by attacking “black “Lesbian” females” and “Oprah “Find the Victim” Winfrey,” whom he describes as a
selfish, self-serving, anti-male bigot and organiser of female only schools in Africa. A true racist bigot in every sense of the word.
Yes, the author of “Why Black Women are More Repulsive than any Other..” did just call Oprah a racist bigot.
Apparently immune to irony, Christian J continues:
The facts about black women is even more horrendous than one could even assume. They developed themselves as being so arrogant and self-serving, that even black men avoid them like the plague. …
The fact that they have constantly hit out against black men as being either gays or hoods or in jail, leaving them pregnant (that’s a favourite with women, always blame someone else for one’s own stupidity) and refusing to man up when required. They vilified black men at every opportunity. …
The black man’s response was huge. They enjoyed handing their oversized asses back to them in popular songs like rap and other genres.
You will no doubt have noticed by now that Christian J. does not seem to understand what words mean or how language works, exactly.
They reduced the black female down to the levels they could understand and they also stated in no uncertain terms, what black females could do with themselves while they went off and picked females from other races to replace those high and mighty, self-elevated edifices and phoenixes.
Edifices? Phoenixes? Is he just pulling random words out of the dictionary now?
Poetic justice and it was the appropriate feedback they required to put them back in the box where they originally came from and hopefully teach them some level of humility.
The … box … they came from? What the fuck is he even talking about here?
That did not work of course as their ego now had grown even bigger that they themselves could no longer control. …
So what is the problem with these black females ?
They’re surrounded by assholes like you?
I now have this vision of a clear river washing over a bed of shining, many-coloured eyes.
Anathema, Dvärghundspossen – on the subject of kick-ass black lesbians in movies:
First off, heaven knows we’re not exactly experiencing a glut of those. Heck, I can’t even think of a single Hollywood movie featuring a black lesbian except Whoopie Goldberg in Boys On The Side, and that was in 1995.
But I’m going to take this as an opportunity to plug the 2011 movie “Pariah”. Far from a Big Hollywood production, and indeed criminally ignored by most awards committees. But really a great movie, and I hope more people get to watch it.
It was really poignant watching it with my sweetie. As we were watching it, she started quietly making comments along the lines of “yup, hate it when that happens” and “ugh, I know how that feels”, and it struck me that this was one of the very few movies in which she really saw a lot of her own experience reflected. So many gay & lesbian movies still focus on middle-to-upper-class white characters and their concerns, which are just kinda far from the world and the worries she grew up with. And the vast majority still feature femmy lesbians only, or at least a Hollywood notion of a “butch” lesbian (who tends to still wear more makeup than even I do) – unless, of course, they feature a caricature of a butch lesbian as a target of ridicule. To have a movie featuring a realistic young black butch struggling, among other things, with her gender identity and presentation… it was clearly a huge deal for her.
There has been a Tumblr text post going around drawing a lovely poetic parallel between how vampires cannot see themselves in mirrors, and how not being able to see yourself reflected in the culture and its media, how to be ignored and made invisible and made to feel like your experience isn’t real or valid, will eventually make you feel like an outcast or a monster. Watching Pariah, it finally hit home to me how many movies I have that reflect my background and experience (white, affluent upper-middle-class, traditional on-campus college education, cis and presenting mostly conforming to gender norms, bi but usually read as straight), and how incredibly few she has (black, working-class, military career, gender-queer-ish butch dyke).
It’ll be like when people throw coins in a fountain and make a wish, except it’s eyeballs and what everyone is wishing is that the verbal wanking would stop.
Is Saintnick wildly overreacting? What the hell?
RE: Neurite
Yeah, that’s really fucking rough. Obviously not the same, but I kinda got to experience that in motion, as we slowly fell off the Hollywood axis. First came the multi/trans/queer… then came the mental illness… then the poverty… then the homelessness… and now representation is a lot more scarce on the ground. At least I’ve still experienced it before, when we were little, so we can keep tabs on it.
Could we turn this into a discussion of eye colour? That’d be more fun and a change from the usual bras/makeup tactic.
Mine are grey-green with the odd hazel fleck in them. Louis’s are a cool, slightly greenish brown.
Next!
Also a riverbed or fountain full of eyes is TERRIFYING and thank you for taking me back to that soup scene in Temple of Doom.
Meh. Vessel’s are blue. Mine are hazel with blue, green, and yellowish gray kludged together. (Blame my predecessors.) Hubby’s are brown.
A discussion of eye color? Feh! I demand eye selfies! Bookmark that for any time you want to see my baleful stare.
(Can I just say that it is surprisingly hard to take a good selfie of your own eye?)
Hand-drawn eye selfies are also acceptable. I just kinda want to turn this thread into a collection of disembodied eyeballs now.
Selfies! 😀
That pic reminds me of a Life mag cover from the 60s – a closeup of a woman’s eye. Scared the bejezus out of me as a little kid. It was the Big Eye and I wouldn’t walk past the mag if I could see it.
eye selfie!
MOAR EYEBALLS. Speaking of balls, check out this misandry! Maybe this belongs on the food thread, but I’m here dammit.
cloudiah, did you see the magazine cover I linked here?
Total misandry, with mustelids.
This just made me realize that we could troll MRAs by talking about fish balls (the food item) and not telling them that they’re not, like, actual fish balls.
Plus, fish balls would be one step away from talking about kitties.
Mustelid misandry is the best misandry.
I am totally doing this.
“The cherry blossom festival was so awesome, especially the fish balls. You see, what they do is they get the fish balls and they skewer them on a stick, and then you walk around with them while you take in the sights. Don’t forget to buy your kids some fish balls! No festival is complete without them!”
I remember when some dude from my film class walked up to me and said “You have nice eyes – no homo!” And I just said “ok thanks I guess”
I hate hearing people say shit like “no homo” >_>
Anyway, here’s my eye selfie: http://i.imgur.com/az9BT0l.jpg
You can’t really see the olive green there, but in shows in better kinds of lighting.
Nice! 🙂
And yeah, “no homo” – eurgh.
When I joined Tumblr, I was deeply saddened that the name “nohetero” was already taken.
My comment was in regards to a conversation on the previous page where Myeyestheyburn’s housemate complained about a feminist campaign that didn’t acknowledge men, and the housemate’s comment that it “felt like they didn’t care about men”. My point was that it’s ridiculous judge a group established primarily to help women based on how much it’s doing to help men, and yet I see this complaint regularly directed at feminists.
That said, having re-read this part of my post:
I can see how that implies that I’m saying other progressive social movements don’t also get hit with ridiculous criticisms and expectations by people who want to silence them, which they obviously do. That part should have been worded better. Also should have clarified that I can only speak based on personal experience as someone who is politically progressive and hears/reads a lot of criticism of progressive movements. I see the “You need to prove you don’t hate us by solving our problems FOR us!” directed at feminists frequently in discussions even compared to other progressive groups*.
* The stuff directed at other groups is more often of the “X-thing-that-helps-struggling-people is just SOCIALISM!” or “Next people will be marrying their dogs!” or “Raising the minimum wage slightly will put everyone out of business!” or “POC are always looking to play the race/victim card!”, etc. variety.
Possibly the 2013 Jackass Award winner for the category of “Feminism needs to solve men’s problems for them” was the guy who posted in a thread here and said that if feminists don’t like PUA crap, then they (feminists) need to come up with a way to help guys get laid.
I think that was Obsidian Files (excuse me, “O”).
Yeah, that was ObsidianFiles. And then he got whiny with, “We DID come up with our things, it’s not OUR fault that you women find it so creepy and rapey! Come up with something better, then!”
It reminded me of small children who need to be carefully taught exactly how to do everything. Only these were adult men.
[Content note: victim-blaming, rape apologia]
And then came “I’m opposed to rape because it’s not necessary” and that fucking awful victim-blaming against female rape victims who don’t report their rapes to the police. Good riddance.