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Cultural Appropriation? Let’s fix this.

As white people, we find there are many things that we can’t do due to it being labelled as cultural appropriation. It’s only fair that other races do not appropriate our culture.


So here is a list of things that you, as a non-white person, can not do.

  1.  You can not speak English.
  2.  You can not use Western medicine.
  3.  You may not use the internet.
  4.  You may not listen to rock music.
  5.  You may not use the word ‘cracker’. It is not your word.
  6.  Do not use things invented by white people, i.e. computers, pianos, telephones, aircrafts, pencils, cameras, or the theatre.
  7.  You may not get drunk with beer.
  8.  You may not wear any clothing created by white people, as it is racist and appropriating.
  9.  You may not synthetically dye your hair.
  10.  Do not use slang created by our people.

Signed, Kie.

anyone want to hear a joke?

this post.

” Do not use slang created by our people.”

gee golly wow? shucks? scallywag?

SCREAMING BECAUSE THIS FOOL ACTUALLY BELIEVES WHITE PEOPLE INVENTED ROCK MUSIC, HAIR DYING, AND ASSUMES THAT PEOPLE WANT TO USE THEIR SLANG. 

That awkward moment when POC invented most (if not all) of what’s on this list. We’d be find without white inventions but i can’t say the same for white folks. You’d be fucked with out POC. FUCKED! 

Damn. I guess ya’ll gotta stop using

  • air conditioning unit: Frederick M. Jones
  • almanac: Benjamin Banneker
  • auto cut-off switch: Granville T. Woods
  • auto fishing devise: G. Cook
  • automatic gear shift: Richard Spikes
  • baby buggy: W.H. Richardson
  • bicycle frame: L.R. Johnson
  • biscuit cutter: A.P. Ashbourne
  • blood plasma bag: Charles Drew
  • cellular phone: Henry T. Sampson
  • chamber commode: T. Elkins
  • clothes dryer: G. T. Sampson
  • curtain rod: S. R. Scratton
  • curtain rod support: William S. Grant
  • door knob: O. Dorsey
  • door stop: O. Dorsey
  • dust pan: Lawrence P. Ray
  • egg beater: Willie Johnson
  • electric lampbulb: Lewis Latimer
  • elevator: Alexander Miles
  • eye protector: P. Johnson
  • fire escape ladder: J. W. Winters
  • fire extinguisher: T. Marshall
  • folding bed: L. C. Bailey
  • folding chair: Brody & Surgwar
  • fountain pen: W. B. Purvis
  • furniture caster: O. A. Fisher
  • gas mask: Garrett Morgan
  • golf tee: T. Grant
  • guitar: Robert F. Flemming
  • hair brush: Lydia O. Newman
  • hand stamp: Walter B. Purvis
  • horse shoe: J. Ricks
  • ice cream scooper: A. L. Cralle
  • improv. sugar making: Norbet Rillieux
  • insect-destroyer gun: A. C. Richard
  • ironing board: Sarah Boone
  • key chain: F. J. Loudin
  • lantern: Michael C. Harvey
  • lawn mower: L. A. Burr
  • lawn sprinkler: J. W. Smith
  • lemon squeezer: J. Thomas White
  • lock: W. A. Martin
  • lubricating cup: Ellijah McCoy
  • lunch pail: James Robinson
  • mail box: Paul L. Downing
  • mop: Thomas W. Stewart
  • motor: Frederick M. Jones
  • peanut butter: George Washington Carver
  • pencil sharpener: J. L. Love
  • record player arm: Joseph Hunger Dickenson
  • refrigerator: J. Standard
  • riding saddles: W. D. Davis
  • rolling pin: John W. Reed
  • shampoo headrest: C. O. Bailiff
  • spark plug: Edmond Berger
  • stethoscope: Imhotep; Ancient Egypt
  • stove: T. A. Carrington
  • straightening comb: Madam C. J. Walker
  • street sweeper: Charles B. Brooks
  • phone transmitter: Granville T. Woods
  • thermostat control: Frederick M. Jones
  • traffic light: Garrett Morgan
  • tricycle: M. A. Cherry
  • typewriter: Burridge & Marshman

(Don’t get me started on other races. I only did a few black cause the list would be too damn long)

Welp.

I feel like this happens every few months.

White person claims nobody can use stuff arbitrarily labeled as a part of “white culture”. White person proceeds to list of bunch of stuff created by POC. White person gets shot down by POC (most of the time Black tumblr tbh. tho once there was this list of inventions by Muslims and it was glorious).

That’s a long ass fucking short list.

I mean cause on the real, if white folks had shit, they wouldn’t have gone around the world TO STEAL SHIT. 

That awkward moment when white people on Tumblr are being stupid. 

Oh, wait, that is most of the time.

COME ON, OTHER WHITE PEOPLE.

The secondhand embarrassment I feel for my entire race is sometimes too much to bear.

(Also it’s often firsthand embarrassment too lbr).

trans-terrific:

“I’ve read some blogs during this whole [rape joke controversy] that have enlightened me. This woman said how rape is something that polices women’s lives. They have a narrow corridor. They can’t go out late, they can’t go to certain neighborhoods, they can’t dress a certain way…I never…that’s part of me now that wasn’t [there] before.”

—

Louis C.K., The Daily Show, 7/16/12. (via hulksmashes)

lou i knew you were smart

woah is this for real because if so I am pleased

(via saturniinae)

But then he goes on to say how he can still appreciate a good rape joke and all discussions about this just bring gender into it too much, particularly women arguing about what they feel and men need to just tell them yeah, we listened to your feelings, now shut up. And he prefaced this by saying, “It’s also a fight between comedians and feminists, which are natural enemies. Because stereotypically speaking, feminists can’t take a joke and comedians can’t take criticism. So to one side you say if you can’t take a joke, stay out of the comedy clubs.” CK deserves no pass. 

(via supersoygrrrl)

Reblogged for commentary. I actually think this was the worst possible way he could have handled it. First, he didn’t take any responsibility for supporting Tosh in the first place, then he insinuated that the root of all of this was feminists not having a sense of humor (though he was careful to balance it out with (much milder) criticisms of comedians- that they can’t take criticism). Then, when some people in the crowd booed his comment about feminists not having a sense of humor, he pulled the “See?” card- because objecting to what he was saying is apparently the same thing as not having a sense of humor.

THEN he goes on to say “So I’ve learned all about the rape culture this week, and I didn’t know before” BUT he then says “And it still doesn’t matter, and women are just getting all over emotional, as women do, and dudes you should humor them a bit and then tell them to shut the fuck up.”

Then he finished with a joke about killing jews, to show “Hey, I’m being offensive! It’s what comedians do! What, you can’t laugh at me being offensive?”

It was really, really gross. It was also a really pathetic attempt to appease his more progressive fans while still not alienating any jerks by actually taking a position. He did not once, not once, criticize anything Daniel Tosh said or did here or act like maybe there was a legitimate reason to criticize it.


(via sexistculture)

Reblogging for additional commentary. It really did come off as, “Yeah I learned a little bit about rape culture that I didn’t know before but I don’t actually give a damn about it. Joking about rape pays our bills so shut up.” I don’t understand how someone could watch this interview and JUST take away the above quote. That just seems really disingenuous to the interview as a whole. 

(via supersoygrrrl)

Yeaaaaaaah, I actually just watched this interview. He gets zero points for that, and this selective quoting is BS.

(via yukidama)

I watched the interview earlier and spent most of it arguing with him. It was a useless gesture, but the point was that the above commentary is right on the money. “Oh I had no idea there was rape culture, but now I am aware the term exists. But hey, after I indulge you for a few seconds and listen to you (like that stupid Klondike commercial), shut up because the man is still in charge, okay? Because we really don’t want to hear it.” I was also frustrated how little Jon Stewart challenged him in the interview.

(via vanessasketch)

If this whole thing isn’t a perfect view of privileged peeps getting to choose what to be bothered by, I don’t know what is. He’s a progressive-sounding, forward-ish thinking dude being confronted with his own shitty, privileged behavior. He is smart enough to acknowledge the issue, but he can’t be assed to give a fuck because he might have to come up with funnier jokes if he did.

I just recently watched a few episodes of Louie. I’m done though. You don’t get my money if you support rape culture. I still haven’t seen a movie with Johnny Depp in it since the Polanski petition bullshit. Rape apologists don’t get my money. Period.

(via elizabitchez)

Reblogged for commentary. Brilliant commentary.

I am trying to remember the last Depp movie I saw, and let me tell you how much it still pains me to support Natalie Portman via my love of Thor for the same reasons.

(via ouyangdan)

So Rebecca pointed me at this last night and I took a look at it today and… yeah, this commentary is basically how I feel.

I also just break out in hives when men are given cookies for acknowledging even the slightest effect of rape culture or sexism, or acknowledge that feminism is important. Like, no shit? 

(via shorm)

chibean: “Feminism is itself a challenge. Feminism is a challenge to the way things are in the world. It is by definition an oppositional movement, because it’s trying to accomplish something. I’ve never felt like feminism was a consciousness raising effort in isolation. Everything about feminism is about getting something in the world to get better for women, and to get the world to be less stupid on gender bifurcation terms. I think that feminism over time gets better, or it gets better and worse and better and worse at achieving the goals that it’s trying to achieve, but the overall mission stays the same. I guess I don’t think of it as feminism versus anti-feminism; I sort of think of it as feminism versus the world. I don’t think of it as a competition; there’s no winning. In feminism, you’re always trying to make stuff better. It’s opposition to which you cannot attribute a tally.” ― Rachel Maddow

chibean:

“Feminism is itself a challenge. Feminism is a challenge to the way things are in the world. It is by definition an oppositional movement, because it’s trying to accomplish something. I’ve never felt like feminism was a consciousness raising effort in isolation. Everything about feminism is about getting something in the world to get better for women, and to get the world to be less stupid on gender bifurcation terms. I think that feminism over time gets better, or it gets better and worse and better and worse at achieving the goals that it’s trying to achieve, but the overall mission stays the same. I guess I don’t think of it as feminism versus anti-feminism; I sort of think of it as feminism versus the world. I don’t think of it as a competition; there’s no winning. In feminism, you’re always trying to make stuff better. It’s opposition to which you cannot attribute a tally.”
― Rachel Maddow

(via loveintheshadowsistheonlykind)

jessicavalenti:

Watch Nicki Minaj Casually Dismantle Sexism While Applying Her Eyeliner, via Upworthy 

GOD I love me some Nicki Minaj (and look, something I curated on Upworthy caught Jessica Valenti’s eye, someone fetch me my smelling salts or I shall swoon).

Also it probably doesn’t need to be said but girl, you are ANYTHING but stupid.

Sidenote: When this first went up, our FB page flipped shit because black people and tried to hide their racism by saying it was because she was being hypocritical because her song lyrics are often very anti-other women/turn women into sex objects etc., which actually can be a valid discussion point — until they started calling her a “ghetto bitch” and a “stupid hoe.” I’d screencap the threads, but I banned those douchebags so hard and so fast I’m pretty sure I made their computers spontaneously bluescreen.

I did screencap this, though:

[Comment reads: A lot of the comments in here are one of the many reasons why women of color feel alienated and excluded from the feminist movement. You’re invalidating Nicki’s opinion because how she chooses to express herself doesn’t match up to how you express yourself. She’s a part of the hip hop community and asking her to act different because you want her to is precisely going against her excellent point and adding to the problem.]

Like, exactly. Exactly, exactly, exactly.

And mind you, there was a lot of support - especially after moderation kicked in and people were reminded they’ll be banned if they weren’t civil (funny how that works). But still. Sometimes it’s comments like this that restore my faith in humanity (and Facebook).

Beauty Whitewashed: How White Ideals Exclude Women of Color»

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These are pretty striking.

internal-acceptance-movement:

While we talk a lot about harmful media beauty ideals like extreme thinness, appearance-focused “fitness,” sex appeal, and photoshopping phoniness, one of the most oppressive ideals excludes anyone who isn’t … white. We call it the whitewashing of beauty.

In a country where a full one-third of the population is black, Native American, Asian, Pacific Islander, Hispanic or Latina, the serious underrepresentation of women of color in media is really disturbing. Further, when you only account for the women of color shown in positive roles or depictions – especially those depicted as beautiful or desirable – the number is almost negligible.

The mainstream beauty ideal is almost exclusively white, making it all the more unattainable for women of color. Though beautiful women of color like Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez, Queen Latifah, Rihanna, Jennifer Hudson, Halle Berry and others have achieved renown in U.S. culture, media representations of these women have become increasingly “anglicized” or “whitewashed” over time, with lighter-colored, straighter hair, lighter makeup, colored contacts and often shrinking figures.

Even when the women are being recognized for something other than their beauty, like, say, an Oscar nomination for incredibly talented actress Gabourey Sidibe of “Precious,” magazines like Elle still feel the need to whitewash her in order to feature her image on the cover. 

While representation of women of color in media has increased slightly over the past decade, finding positive depictions of women with dark skin tones or natural hair is still nearly impossible in mainstream media.Further, when we do see women of color represented as beauty icons in media, they almost always already fit white ideals –meaning they already have light skin tones, light-colored, straight hair, ideally “white” facial features, thin figures, etc. 

Essentially, WOC are viewing a distorted reality and holding themselves to the unattainable standard set by the non-reality of popular media – and most often, those standards are based on oppressive, power-laden ideals of whiteness. 

Recognizing the ridiculous lack of diversity in representation of media, and particularly when it comes to portrayals of beauty, is absolutely crucial for people of all races.

Recognizing is the first step toward rejecting those messages and the negative feelings they inspire about our bodies. After we reject them, we can continuously redefine beauty for ourselves – on our own terms – with the help of the beautiful people in our lives who recognize other forms of beauty as well. 

By Lindsay Kite, 2011. “Beauty Whitewashed: How White Ideals Exclude Women of Color.” Published at www.beautyredefined.net/beauty-whitewashed-how-white-ideals-exclude-women-of-color.

I can’t believe we still have to explain this…but here ya go…

(via onceuponanotsolongtimeago)

Due to a popular white cis feminist sex educator leaving tumblr

fatbodypolitics:

fat-brown-owl:

I have decided to give sex education and sex tips every Tuesday evening. My language will be casual and I use a lot of AAVE, but I will make sure to use scientific terms. The “advice” (more like discussion) will be queer and trans* friendly. I want to make sure that I center WOC and Fat WOC in my discussions, because a lot of issues regarding us gets left out or we’re invisible. I’m curious though, what do you guise want to discuss? I’ll try to be research on things I’m not an expert on (trans* issues and point folks to the proper sources). Anyhow, what do you want to see from this? 

YAY! This sounds awesome!

PSYCHED.

Fat privilege

thisisthinprivilege:

(oh, another troll submission! The hills are aliiiive with the sound of trolls…. As usual, my responses are in bold)

Fat privilege is blaming your weight on genetics.

Hate is ignoring whatever facts you need to so you can keep on stewing and spewing and basking in unearned social superiority.

Genetics controls where your muscle insertions are, and how easily you put on fat/muscle. Even with the worst genetics, you can get in shape.

Muscle insertions? Are those like the insertions I put in my bra sometimes? No, wait, forget I said that!

So I’m confused…are you say weight is or is not influenced by genetics? (it is, of course)

As long as calories in > calories out, you WILL lose weight. You WILL feel better. You WILL only need one airline ticket.

Except that the body as a Bunsen burner model (which is the calories in / calories out equation you cite) violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In other words: PHYSICS PWN!

As for airline tickets, if they keep getting smaller and the pitch keeps decreasing fewer and fewer people will fit into plane seats. The airlines control the seat size and whether or not someone can fit into the seat, not the person purchasing the seat. Duh.

Stop thinking that you can be fat and healthy. You can’t.

W R O N G.

Stop making excuses for the way you are. You’re fat because you eat shit and don’t exercise.

Assumptions make an ass out of you and…actually, just you.

(original troll post submitted by spessmerhenn)

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