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).

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