Oh I replied to you in solidarity against the dude asking you to provide numbers and studies to back up your experience. Girl I know you're a girl! I read a lot of your comments. I replied to him too, but since Jez won't let us tag people in comments anymore, I just wanted to add my solidarity to ya :)

LOL white dudes always be asking women and Black people to back up their findings with studies. Can't you just believe a woman or a Black person has a valid life experience that isn't the same as yours? Is a study the only way to make something valid?

LOL white dudes always be asking women and Black people to back up their findings with studies. We get it - y'all run education too and nobody cares about studying anyone that isn't a white dude. byeeeeeeeeeee

DAMN! Nailed it.

Our arguments are based on our experience and perspective, which are always dictated by our experience with race.

It changes the context because the context around the way that Black and white women are perceived in the media, in history, and in current culture in the US are different. They are not comparable situations. Even if they were, only one is the reality, so I'm not sure what service this hypothetical situation is to.

Yeah, but they still do it on purpose! It's such ignorant tone policing I just can't: "Wow, maybe if you were more demure and quieter like women are supposed to be, you would be taken seriously."

So, you're white.

There's no need to amplify the voices, just to have the other voices out there to be quiet sometimes. You can only listen when you're not talking. If you're talking and someone is speaking louder or yelling, you still don't really hear what they say. My advice to "amplify" Black women's voice is to take a break on the…

START UP!

I don't know anything about photography but those composite photos (limbs/locations) are bizarre looking. They look so fake, but in an otherworldly fashion that I think some might find aesthetically pleasing but which I HATE.

Is your argument is more about the meaning of the word than the act? Like, you think the act of taking random elements of a culture and commodifying them with no regard for respecting their experience is wrong, but you think there should be a different word for it?

Why racist?

That was a rhetorical question; you're quite clearly white.

So, you're white too?

Are you suggesting Chanel's choices to have models wearing what look like caricatures of traditional Native American dress is merely a coincidence and that none of the designers at Chanel thought about using "inspiration" from these cultures for their clothes?

So, you're white?

Read the article.

Did you read anything except the headline? I'll give you a minute.

Systems of racism that are based in colonialism from the British, French, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese began at home? How about in the halls of their legislatures, in response to their sense of cultural supremacy over all others and the economic needs of the biggest industries at the time colonialism? It wasn't like…