So... The worst SB half-time show ever?

Black women/girls matter less than Black men/boys in the Black community.

What popped into my head was that when I learned about Sally Hemmings, she was described as Thomas Jefferson’s “mistress,” when in actuality she was 13/14 and his slave. There’s no justification for using a word that implies consent where it doesn’t exist. She was a child and a slave and that makes it rape. While not…

Gaga suddenly speaking up five years later? Smells to high heaven as part of a de rigueur reputation cleanse mid- Oscar campaign, but it’s just bad timing. She could’ve said something two years ago; now she’s highlighting a bad choice from her past, probably designed to be edgey at the time, but now throws it right bac…

It’s also because people see it as an issue for the black and indigenous communities to handle on their own (whereas violence against white women is everyone’s issue, I guess?) I’ve literally had white women tell me they feel uncomfortable criticizing R. Kelly because it’s “black women’s job to call out their own…

Knowing how to shoot guns will do nothing to protect her from men/boys she is close with. She’s statistically much more likely to be harmed by men she knows than by some stranger in an alley she needs to use a gun on.

There was a gang rape case of a tween in the south a bit ago where they excused it in the same way. The girl looked older, hung out with older boys and she was “fast” so it somehow wasn’t as big of a deal. 

Because black girls and black women are both the most marginalized gender and most marginalized race separately...so when you put them together...it is a perfect storm.

“I don’t know how to empower her enough when dealing with men,”

It’s ok to talk about slavery and Jim Crow when talking about what Black men suffered through. Black women on the other hand...

When the tape of him peeing on a girl came out, I heard many people (both men and women) try to justify saying that she didn’t look like a child and she was probably fast. And my response was always, you wouldn’t make that excuse if she was your daughter.

A big reason no one looks into sexual assaults of black women is because it might reflect badly on black men, and we can’t have that. Up in Canada we have the same issue; the government spent millions looking into the causes of murdered indigenous women, but no one likes the answers (indigenous men) so it just stays…

Whipping his dick out was bad enough, but he also actively tried to ruin the careers of those women and anyone who tried to report on it as well. People don’t talk about that enough. Like so much fucking hand-wringing over a guy’s “ruined reputation” and literally nothing about the reps of all the women he crushed…

As she so often does, I think Roxane Gay has a really great take. Hopefully Garofalo will take some time to take the criticism on, reflect, and learn.

Look, I get standing up for a friend. But compare this to what Marc Maron said about C.K., also longtime friends. He had asked C.K. privately about the (at the time) rumors and Louis said they weren’t true. When C.K. admitted to the behavior, Maron said on the podcast that Louis had straight up lied to him and fuck…

“I think Louis C.K., leave Louis C.K. alone,”

“And, if you’re wondering, yes, Kevin Hart can act.”

No, this has been done many times before. Sometimes the outcome is good; sometimes awful, however, the black character is always an ex con or recovering addict or just plain down on their luck while the white character is handicapped, ill or just old. To flip it would make the white character the ex con or recovering…

Cut him a break; he was young, this is not who he is, not all writers, he was hacked and um ambien.

Nah backlash. That asshole didn’t have any fucks to give recording and performing w his rapist ass everywhere then played lip service to #MeToo! Now that enough (white) people are getting angry and questioning her she’s removing it. Better late than never, I guess.