As my grandfather used to say "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"*. I kind of think that fits the point Hillary is trying to make - you either see Beyonce as shaking her ass because it's her ass to shake (and it's fine) or you see it as she's shaking her ass to please the patriarchy. Not much in…

I'm one of the people who disagreed with her use of the word terrorist but I'm over it at this point (although I think we should talk about her problematic comparison to Dylan Farrows abuse. I'm sure that was hyperbole and sensationalism too but a line had to be drawn). I have a few questions: where do we draw the…

That was an incredibly unfunny skit.

This doesn't hold water for me. Mainly because Janet's father attempted to control her and keep her from being sexual while the manifestation of Beyonce's father's control was to purposely sexualize her in her teens in hopes of getting a record deal.

From Slate:

Actually...we haven't come a long way. I see people calling the President of the United States a monkey, terrorist and all sorts of horrible things. Things that would never be said to a sitting President if he were white. Actually, Barack Obama is probably the most disrespected President in US history purely…

I can't even. Just, no. That woman was murdered, pure and simple.

When I wore jeans and an oversized sweatshirt into a completely empty Chanel store, looking for a lipstick, I was treated like a criminal. As soon as I decided on a color, the woman who hadn't left my side the whole time took me by the arm to the cash register to make me pay immediately. I actually wanted some…

Any and all "fraud prevention" needs to be done BEFORE the person completes the transaction and leaves the store.

Sales people can be ridiculous. My mom used to have to call the manager on salesgirls who felt comfortable saying that the item she was asking for was too expensive for her. "Do you have X?" "Yes, but it is really expensive." B/c you know, we are black, and we are all poor.

What gets me about this is the total unwillingness to acknowledge that an innocent teenage boy is dead because George Zimmerman was a complete fuck up of a human being.

No. No I cannot.

I'm done. If this was a black guy in the EXACT same circumstances they'd...wait. he'd already be in jail on murder charges. Stand Your Ground given the racialized nature of Florida's politics and police is basically for whites only. Can you imagine any scenario in which a black man could stalk, harass, and shoot in…

Hey, fellow white ladies of Jezebel: Let's remember that a black kid is still dead, and his killer is still free. It's not about our feelings tonight, or about what black people say about us. It's about the fact that black lives do not, according to the state of Florida, and in American society at large, matter.

For me, this was going to come down to whether white women saw themselves as white first or women first. I've gotten my answer.