Then are they really allies? If I were in a room with the sexual assault survivor, I wouldn't be able to look her in the eye and tell her their chants were for her to obtain justice because they were not. That's not an ally. I guess it's better than Winston but it's not an ally. Sexual assault is so very trivialized.…

It's not about what they said. It's about what they meant which makes this problematic. I'm all for shaming but this wasn't shaming, it was 100% bragging. They couldn't have cared less about the sexual assault victim. They cared about making an "ironic" statement about him losing a game they probably bragged he'd lose.

It's difficult for me to even wrap my mind around the audacity that it would take for a white woman to saunter her way through a culture rooted in male blackness and then constantly try to push race aside. So which is it? Stupid or evil?

This is the best lmao.

This is incredibly interesting to me. I see Minaj as that now but I think this analysis and the analyses I've seen in the comments is still thought-provoking.

I wish I never had to cycle through these small interactions and wonder: Am I overthinking? Am I just being paranoid? It's exhausting.

Especially with their obsession about sex in general.

YES! THIS!

That's where I'm at too. Her music is predominantly about sex. I'm all for women expressing sexuality, all for it. My problem occurs when it's ALL she does.

Illegal immigrants have to be one of the bravest groups in this country, hands down.

It's not. Men don't seem to listen unless another man is saying it. Works that way with most groups like race, class, gender as well.

Expecting women to sacrifice time and energy we very much need for ourselves to fix men's problems for them is toxic masculinity.

Feminism is about increasing women's social status to be more equal to men, not solving men's social problems. I believe they're connected but not completely inseparable.

In that way, feminism is about equality on the women's side of things. Women have been/ practically are oppressed in every country on this earth. I…

You may be able to start with a new perspective: While the world is an awful, uncaring place, it doesn't have to be. Yes it needs to be endured, but each of us don't need to endure it alone. And what "it" is, is the pain that comes from being in this world for men and women. The repulsion to crying is probably a…

This is the comment I've been waiting for to reinforce that other great comment you responded to. I completely agree with the icky feeling you described. I side-eyed the article for this reason.

Feminism is about equality, but equality with a focus on women. Why? Because women's rights have been denied or stepped on at some point in every country's history. Feminism's primary goal is about making women's social status more equal with men, not necessarily correcting men's social ills. And I'm okay with that,…

She wasn't mean and bitter to Alicia Keys because Alicia Keys got famous from her music that's awesome and Niki Minaj, well, let's move on to Taylor Swift. Minaj is self-explanatory. Taylor Swift can't be bothered to mature her music past highschool. Franklin's critiques are warranted. One of these women is a…

I completely get this criticism. I do. But as a black woman, I've had the bulk of my harrassment come from black men. Like 80%. I've had black men follow me in SUVs around the block when I was a teenager. SEVERAL older black men started harassing me since I was 13. One of my best friends was 12 when it started with…

I completely get this complaint. As a POC, I have to struggle with the anger I feel at the pervasive gate keeper syndrome of white women (not all, but some) in feminism, where they only care about their problems and say injecting race just causes more division or whatever nonsense. However, white women are still seen…

And you think she has as much privilege as a man. Puheaze...