“I still want to hang out on my porch and see everyone’s cute costumes, but, no, I don’t want a bunch of kids ringing my doorbell and fishing in my bowl for candy,” [a Colorado-based mom] wrote in a Facebook post debuting her discovery. “So I’ll be decorating my yard with candy, Willy Wonka style. Kids can come by…
Who said I’m dropping slurs? I’m not. I’m just at a point where I can’t muster the energy to care that Cardi B used the r-word in a voice memo about accidentally publishing a nude photo.
This isn’t about Cardi saying “fuck” at a garden party, and in my opinion using the r-word isn’t “small stuff.” Tolerating intolerance is one of the main reasons the world is in the horrible place it’s in right now. We can’t say “maybe once we end sexism/racism/ableism, then we can go back to thinking about the…
Still (and to be clear I’m no Cardi super-fan or anything, and I’ve been plenty critical of her in the past) I think it’s just generalised fatigue from living through 2020, I can’t muster up the energy to care about people using verboten words. Maybe when the world is no longer in such a horrible place, I can go back…
I have a theory about this. Because we’ve seen Jezebel ignore Cardi’s use of the R word, a slur based on Asian features, and also language denigrating transpeople, off the top of my head and there has to be more than unexamined fandom behind this. So I’ve been thinking that someone has decided these behaviours are a…
They aren’t fearful, its a fucking shield to their racism and hate.
Nah toast and warm beer in his tighty whiteys just like his dad taught him.