You just know these are the same type of cretins who would tell a petty criminal - especially if they were a POC - that they should pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and accept that actions have consequences, before sentencing them to jail time.

Is it possible to say something about one trans person without it equating to saying it about all trans people?

Hmmm, I’m not sure it’s an insult though. She has very classically beautiful features, even if they’re not always played up as such.

Can we not blame Amy Schumer for the assholery of men she may have employed/known? Let’s stay focused on the true jerks who deserve our anger.

I hate when people say shit like that. It’s up there with “do something you love and you’ll never work a day in your life”.

Speaking on behalf of millions of depressives: shut the fuck up, LaToya.

Why can’t it be both? I’m sure Penn State treated them worse than they treat white athletes because they’re Black. I’m also sure they raped her. The coverage around this movie will also likely be worse than it would be for the innumerable white rapists with Oscar-worthy movies because they’re Black. I’m still sure…

From Parker’s interview with Deadline (via NYMag): “I will not relive that period of my life, every time I go under the microscope.”

Y’all keep typing what you wish Parker had said and are ignoring the fact that he still tried to rope two other dudes into raping this girl. No statement absolves that. Not even the most boneheaded understanding of consent means “okay my friends get to fuck you too”

I am a black woman, but FUCK NATE PARKER and all rapists like him. He would not expect others to overlook it if a white racist man raped him and then made a wonderful movie about Malcolm X. If he had shown one iota of compassion for this woman — ah fuck it I would still hate his guts.

I keep seeing people say they want Parker to admit what he did was wrong and, idk, try to push forward the conversation on rape...but is that really how it would go? I cannot imagine what he could have said that would change the convo we’re having now.

Nate Parker isn’t really interested in equity; he’s interested in privileging black masculinity and himself. It’s really ugly and I’m not here for it. If your pro-Blackness isn’t pro-woman, pro-queer, pro-trans, pro-disability, it is NOT pro-Blackness; you just want to oppress as you yourself were oppressed.

I can see why and how race could be a factor. I mean, I recognize there is an especially ugly history of rape accusations against African American men, especially by white women (is that even the dynamic at play here, though?). I don’t see that as particularly compelling here, though. There doesn’t seem to be any…

“I have women I love in my life” is the accused rapist’s “I have a lot of black friends.” I immediately question the motives and honesty of anyone who leads with that in the discussion of a rape case.

We measure the weight and severity of alleged rape against the damage it would do the accused’s life and achievements to acknowledge, but we never even consider what life and what achievements it robbed of the victim. Never.

To hell with that fucking pastor “after all the effort we put in” what fucking effort they put in, “anger is dangerous in an union” fuck him really, like she had something to do with the monster who cut her hands.

I almost threw something last night. The Netherlands girl finished her beam routine and started working in a notebook and the commenter was like, writing in her diary. And Nastia immediately corrected him, “she’s calculating her starting value to make sure she gets the full credit.” And then later they showed her with…

I seriously can’t believe U.S. Gymnastics fans have to put up with this horseshit. First, you guys are watching on a 9 hour delay, which is so insane for a high profile sport I can’t imagine the decision was made by anyone but an old man who hasn’t paid attention to gymnastics since Nadia.

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