Considering how bad she is at dealing with the issues of women of color, I would say that Miley Cyrus is already pretty good at feminism.
Considering how bad she is at dealing with the issues of women of color, I would say that Miley Cyrus is already pretty good at feminism.
Excellent question! And no problem, I would answer questions about this all day! First off, as I always tell my students, there is no Olympics of suffering, so we can't truly compare the experience of an enslaved ancient Roman to that of a person in bondage in the Congo, or a slave in Georgia or in the Pueblo…
Sorry to completely derail the conversation, but it's not every day that I get to speak to a historian (well, no, I do, but my friend's concentration is different than yours), and I'd like to pick your brain about something.
There is no need to compare the horribleness of slavery to the horribleness of forced pregnancy. Both are horrible and in different ways. To a WOC, these comparisons seem callous, invalidating, and overly-simplistic. To someone who's gone through a forced pregnancy, these comments sound dismissing, as though their…
WOC who object to this kind of thing, or have a different point of view about racism that doesn't neatly fit into the approved point of view, are routinely dismissed, belittled, and/or ignored on Jezebel.
Slavery is more than "labor without remuneration." What, would you call an intern for Vogue a slave? What is common to all forms of slavery across the globe was what scholars have called "social death," the denial of all family ties and personal agency. So explain to me again how the two are equivalent?
This will be a productive conversation that ends well.
That's why I love Bubblegum. Pink princess, math genius. Boom.
My friend, a female chef, is an executive chef at a top Austin restaurant (and only 26 years old) and won Chopped this summer. She hosts and organizes events to feature female chefs when she can and advocates against this kind of stupidity all the time. I admire her so much- screw old boys' clubs.
Because they just pretend to be lesbians because that's the cool thing to do. In reality, they're all just big sluts who seduce college athletes and other defenseless dudes and then cry rape. Plus, most women who get abortions aren't even pregnant. They just go in once or twice a month to get their uterus cleaned out…
You mean Mrs. Kim owns Forever 21?
I'm a little upset that it's not mentioned that Jezebel also messed up in how this was addressed.
And close on the heels of Amanda Bynes, we have Miley Cyrus.
I couldn't stand it. I was sitting at work during a slow work day and saw so many people were reading the Drew Magary article so I clicked on it myself.
Women seem so much more forgiving.