The issue isn’t that she identifies as being black while physically white
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BECAUSE SHE IS LYING ABOUT HER OBJECTIVELY VERIFIABLE ANCESTRY. And profiting from the lies at the expense of others.
Teaching is not cultural appropriation.
A full ride scholarship? Ok, see this is when I stop laughing. If that scholarship was meant for the typically underprivileged, opportunity deprived, education seeking black student and she 1)accepted it
I’d argue the difference is that race is a social construct where as gender is a actual thing. There have been brain scans that suggest that trans people’s brains actually work in the same manner as their true gender.
I’m 95% sure this is just Daniel Day Lewis Prepping for a role.
The problem is not that she’s a white person leading an NAACP chapter. The problem is that she’s a white person who seemingly lied about being black and then headed an NAACP chapter.
I know that ‘ham planet’ is an awful term used to be shitty towards fat people but now I am mostly just thinking about how wonderful and delicious a planet full of ham would be. Sort that shit out, NASA.
Harassing someone in response to accusations of harassment is sort of like threatening violence against women game developers in response to accusations of threatening violence against women in games. If nothing else, they are consistent.
Yo, kids! FUCK YOU!
Are we supposed to shed tears for you because you sometimes have racist thoughts about men of color? While men AND women of color are being harassed, assaulted, and KILLED by the police force? Nah.
I’m a size 18. Am I fat enough to call her kinda racist?
Maggie Gyllenhaal may not have the kind of beauty that bad, unimaginative Hollywood casting directors are looking for, but she’s incredibly compelling to look at, and oh man is she sexy. Like really deeply, dirtily sexy. I’m three episodes into The Honourable Woman, and there are a couple of scenes with Gyllenhaal and…
Anecdotally, I have met (and was married to one) African American men who were very critical of large sized women, and one of the reasons they were dating non-Black women was, as they themselves stated, that they disliked the sometimes larger size of some African American women. Internalized racism at its worst.…
Can we reframe this?
I don’t speak for all trans people but for me before I transitioned and the immediate period after I was focused mostly upon appearance. I thought, yes, I have permission now to wear this pretty outfit or makeup.