And if you refer to yourself as an “influencer,” you ARE the money (wo)men.

Or, he’s flopping around like a Chilean Sea Bass. Am I right? Ha!

So you want to talk about black women while excluding all other women of color. And then you want to talk about all the ways in which white women are oppressing black women, without even touching upon the myriad ways that we are all working TOGETHER to combat racial and gender injustices?

What in the fuck are you going on about?

The modern progressive sentiment that all art has to be everything for everyone got draining a while ago. The most recent example was the small strain of criticism for Black Panther not including a storyline highlighting LGBT issues through the Dora Milaje.

But to cast a film or a piece of art as specifically pertinent to #MeToo speaks to a long sexist tradition: the idea that women’s art is valuable insomuch as it’s about tidy realizations of women’s trauma.

Would love to hear some perspective from the commenters at The Root on this one, but apparently a lot of the regulars over there are banned on Jez.