The Oscar voters do not really care about the performance it is popularity contest, i notice that so many people praise his role on TD but that has nothing to with his performance in DBC (and i think Chiwetel deserves it a lot more than him).

This is why I hate so much when people pretend that representation doesn't matter. It matters. When you never see reflections of yourself as worthy, you logically conclude that you are not worthy. It matters.

Because gay white men are still white men.

I followed that outburst as it was happening. He was mostly getting into it a prominent womanist that I follow. Dirtbag missed the part where he told her to "exploit his cock." He's such a piece of shit.

There seems to be a special flavor of racial deafness among white guys who happen to be gay. I think the idea starts with the fact that they've caught shit for being gay and should thus be in solidarity with people who also have caught shit for being who they are, but some people skip the step about actually learning…

Why do (usually) white queens think that's such a cute/humorous "complement" to black people. If I only had a dollar for all the times I've heard one say that shit.

When they

Am I the only one here who realizes that Gabby was MAKING A TV APPEARANCE? She DID NOT WRITE THIS; these are her spoken words. In the context of the conversation, it's very clear she's speaking for and about herself, not all women. She's also spoken in the past about how she realized she got a great deal of…

I also want to add that when I see Gabby talk I think of intersectionality. Black women are expected to be the "strong Black woman" that we are supposed to handle everything no matter what (this is wrong but many Black women are raised like this). So her wanting to be a survivor is based in being raised to be the…

I feel like I immediately went there because to me, the face of "victimhood" is a white woman. A ton of Lifetime movies and news coverage of missing white women probably doesn't help. It's pretty fucked that factually black women have a higher ratio of violent crime against them, but I don't really think of us as…

I totally agree. I didn't take her statements to mean that she was speaking for anyone but herself. She wasn't telling anyone to suck it up or that they should be like her. And in my own experience, I had a lot of support too but I also understand what a mixed bag that can be (for my own different, personal…

I can't believe that people are nitpicking over how ONE woman feels about HER experience. Suddenly, we must all handle every situation in the same manner that everyone else does?

I find your reaction to Union much MUCH more self-absorbed than anything she said, you're projecting and you're also PATHETIC for attacking her.

She is talking about herself. Get over yourself.

Oh good. Let's quibble about phrasing and tell a sexual assault survivor she's wrong about her feelings. Rad.

This is her story; not yours, not mine. I completely get where you're coming from, but belittling her recovery hurts more than helps.

I'm pretty sure she's not trying to speak for anyone else, only how she felt about her own experience. In what way is a woman talking about something that actually happened to her uninformed?

Her narrative is her narrative. It doesn't have to be most people's narrative.

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