It is known.
It is known.
Good lord, the last line sums it up perfectly. Apparently even when fairly obvious subject matter for women of color is thrown at their feet, these people still fuck it up. And if anyone wants to bring up all the white people in South Africa, I'm gonna need a goddamn sedative.
Ahh, the grim irony of "loss of privileges".
I'll admit it, I laughed loudly when I saw the tweet.
You say it's easy — do tell us, when was the last time you tried to become a non-mainstream porn actor/actress? No, it's not just picking up a camera - it's having a way to distribute it to a larger audience, the budget to cast the right people both on-screen and off, to produce, to cut the film together when you're…
This is a seriously ridiculous argument. Nobody is trying to make the point that what she's doing isn't fucking on camera for money. It's like saying that nothing can ever be feminist because at the end of the day, all we're doing is trying to maintain bodily homeostasis through things like aspiration. Seriously…
They can go talk to my partner, who has a degree in mathematics and has been unemployed for about two years. And then they can promptly go walk into a raging fire.
THERE IS NO GOD.
I don't think Rashida in particular is a good example of "passing" black women - she did an interview where she talked about not getting cast in the lead role of some romantic comedies because she didn't look white enough.
Are you confusing "critique" for "attack"? I criticized the title because it's misleading. According to their own charts, models are NOT getting more white - there has been a downward trend over the very few years they've been recording this and this year it happened to trend slightly upward. That's not indicative of…