Right? People who love the klan precisely because they LARP as light skinned black women sure have a lot to say on the topic of colorism.

This woman has always been beautiful. Adele has been stunning in every era and iteration of herself. The “upgrade” talk is down right insulting. The woman has never taken a bad cover photo.

This is a very long winded way of saying let’s talk about colorism except how light skinned people benefit from colorism.

Right?! It’s weird how the reaction to this article was to be proudly and loudly display just how ill informed the audience is on the issue. For people who claim they want to see Jezebel address more inclusive issues, they clearly haven’t bothered to find out how colorism has been discussed across the Black diaspora.…

It’s depressingly predictable how when a systemic problem is being addressed people are quick to derail the conversation by highlighting how it inconveniences individuals. She has to consult with publicists who she pays precisely for image management? Quelle horreur! Nowhere in this article does it imply that mixed…

Insane that people want to pretend that Jewish women’s whiteness erases the fact that they are often excluded from conventional white beauty standards. Isn’t there a thing where many Jewish teenagers get a nose job to fit in like  Asian teenagers who get eyelid surgery? These reactions are ridiculous. Both articles…

Must be fun over there in 1999. We left “all women just need to support each other” feminism behind for good reason. Flattening women’s issues into a fantasy sisterhood leaves many people out. Can anyone point out to me where Beetz was blamed? This article is about casting decisions, which you are absolutely correct,…

This is classic whataboutism. We can talk about policing people’s identities. But, raising it now just because we are talking about colorism smacks of deflection. Dark skin women are called names indicating they are “too black/dark” and receive racist treatment. White adjacentness takes the off some of the indignities…

You don’t have a coherent argument. Either colorism is not real, or it’s real and too pervasive to do anything about it (nice defeatism there by the way). Ask yourself why you feel you can confidently dismiss any merit to the conversation. Since you are policing “real women’s issues”, please provide a list of issues…

All of this. The audience here can’t understand the points raised, so they are choosing to be righteously angry they were asked to even think about it. 

Thank you DaisyLady and misterzen lady. These comments boil down to “I’m too tired of performatively keeping up with issues to understand yet another problem other people may face”. People are not a monolith. Things are complicated. No shit. 

You object to engaging with people’s issues like they are not a monolith? There are hierarchies and sub hierarchies. Of course things are complicated. 

It’s weird how defensive light skinned POC get when the issue of colorism comes up. If Scarlett Johansson gets taken to task for taking roles she shouldn’t, Zazie Beetz, Zoe Saldana etc should also rethink if they are right for these roles as well. Nowhere does this article lay the blame on Beetz. Using her picture is…

Sinema is the walking embodiment of the limit of representation in power. People get used to their new status right quick and forget that they used to walk in the average person’s shoes. This asshole thinks she earned everything that has come to her via others sweating to put her in office.

Washington isn’t the actor she first yelled at. Some poor unnamed dude who probably has the most to complain about in this story was the actor. But agreed, maybe Denzel Washington liked the actor’s decision to play up the shame. I can see why DW would be pissed that Ellen Pompeo unilaterally assumed she knew better…

Right. And can you think of a single scenario where it would be appropriate for a temporary female boss to get usurped by the old hand dude at the job, simply for not doing things the way the old hand expects things to be done?

Choice/commodity feminism is a very useful tool for women who want to profit from anti-woman choices while looking like they have challenged the system. It makes her feel better. Her minions play their part - reassure her that simply because it’s her choice and it makes her feel better, it must be empowering. The…

Giving her the benefit of the doubt that it’s “girl bossing” gone wrong with a side of hubris which made her tell the story this way. Sometimes it’s a shit day at work and everyday isn’t a feminist uprising. There is nothing anti-black in yelling back at someone who yelled at you (MFer is unprofessional and rude if…

Conveniently leaving out the “yell” part that is directly attributable to her huh? The actor knows the ad lib is not in the script. Denzel knows the ad lib is not in the script and clearly caught on that the “ad lib” was really her directing the actor to make a different choice from his soft spoken approach. They are…

Society decides who is unworthy, then works backwards. The injustice is programmed into every step of your life from then on. White Christian women vote to criminalize pregnant women, because they know they don’t fit the class and race profile. White Christian men are engineering this for patriarchy giggles, but also…