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So my dad used to teach human evolution at the University of Minnesota, right? And his favorite thing was discussing Native American cultures and bashing misogyny. 

So he’d start off class by going “Raise your hand if you think you know why men hunted and women stayed back in the settlements” and most kids would raise their hands. He’d list off a few various reasons and kids would slowly start participating. Then he’d go “How many of you think it’s because men are stronger” and of course most of the males would raise their hands with a few girls. He’d then proceed to rip apart the patriarchal views they had all been taught. “No,” he’d say, “It’s because if five men went out and three or two came back no one would bat an eye. They’d grieve sure, but society would go on. Now if five women went out and three or two came back you know what would happen? Society would collapse.”

And it was true. For many Native American cultures the only reason women did what they did was because the men couldn’t do it. We are (usually) taught a twisted, self-aggrandizing form of history despite evidence suggesting the complete opposite of it. 

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This was present in a lot of cultures in the past before white colonization (see: imperialism and genocide)

In Australia the Aborigines believed that women were more powerful than men and closer to gods because of their ability to give birth, and men would make themselves bleed just to be like women when they came of age

In the Philippines many people held practices which celebrated a woman’s first menstruation, encouraged free sexual exploration before marriage for young men and women, and believed women to be spiritual leaders, so that the only way a “man” could be one was to become a woman (transwomen were able and even encouraged to marry, and were identified as women within the community)

Also in the Philippines economic structures defined power, so a man who was poorer than his wife would take her name, and daughters would inherit and become heads of the family if they were the eldest

Westerners love to flout how great they are at women empowerment when it comes to other cultures that treat women badly, but actively try to hide the fact that there are thousands of other cultures who treated women better centuries ago than they do even today 

And that’s a fact. 

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some thoughts on self objectification 

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Holy mother of hell

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is anyone else just going through life like “yeah i just gotta get past this last difficult week and then it’s smooth sailing from there!” but like… every week

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yes

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Pro-tip: white privilege doesn't mean white people have perfect lives.

It means that white people do not have to deal with institutionalized, systemic racism in addition to their everyday problems. It means institutionalized, systemic racism does not cause white people’s everyday problems. It means when white people go home and turn on their TVs after a long, hard day at work, they can rest assured knowing that they will not only be guaranteed to see people who look like them on the screen, but they will never have to actively search to find a positive depiction of people who look like them. It means even when white people buy their groceries with food stamps, they don’t have to worry that they’ll be followed around the supermarket for “no reason.” You think you have no white privilege because you’re poor? Think again. You think your white privilege disappears because you’re not a cisgendered heterosexual? Think again. You think your white privilege disappears because you’re disabled? Think again. It means that all problems white people face are not exclusive to white people. People of color face those same problems, too. But in addition to any problem white people face, people of color must also bear the burden of dealing with an entire social, cultural, political, economic climate that works against us each and every single day. And here’s the thing about the effect of racism on PoC’s everyday lives: it’s not like adding one more little thing. This isn’t simple math. Racism isn’t just a “minus 1” on our radar. It informs, guides, and shapes the way every other problem is handled. Think about it. When white people are pulled over by the cops, their biggest fear is jail time. When black people are pulled over by the cops, our biggest fear is that they’ll kill us and we won’t even get 30 seconds on the 5:00 news. 

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I want someone to notice me and for once in my life I want to be wanted.

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Someone noticed me only to play me like boo boo the fool and break my heart.

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My black experience in the white gay community

The first thing you’ll notice is that you’re excluded. When I was about 15 I started searching for a way to meet more gay teens to make friends because I just came to terms with my sexuality and I was out of the closet. The first site I came across was Xanga. Xanga was a blogging site but there was a feature where you can be in groups and follow people like you. I found a few groups and followed a bunch of people and noticed I wasn’t getting that many followers. I noticed they all kinda clung together and excluded and ignored me. I wasn’t just online either. I started school at churchland high where there were a few gay white boys that were there but yet again I was excluded. I couldn’t sit at their table or walk with them at gym and it made me angry. I joined the gay scene on Facebook and you would see mediocre white boys with thousands of friends and hundreds of likes and all the gays thirsting after them and ignoring hot people of color. I wanted to test my theory and made a separate xanaga account where I talked to the same white gays under a fake persona. They told me things like “Black guys aren’t attractive” and “I don’t like niggers”. Most of them did use the N word but I got outed as a catfish and deactivated the account. I tried to expose them but no one cared they talked like that and some agreed and said it was a “preference”. On twitter I found myself defending white gays that cared when someone called them a faggot bit never spoke when someone called me the N word. I found myself looking for validation a lot of times and hating myself for being black because I didn’t fit in. When you see them all thirsting after white guys and only praising and posting white guys and look at the color of your skin you realize you aren’t welcome or wanted. I wanted to bleach for a long time because black seemed unattractive. A lot of the time I would try to run away from the world of straight people and their bullying to come into the Gay world and get bullied for the color of my skin. Sometimes it was poc also saying negative things about darkskin guys too but it didn’t hurt me as much because you didn’t hear it as often but I’ve heard “black guys just aren’t attractive” so many times it kinda got stuck in my head and I hated myself. No matter what I did or where I went, white gay boys always treated me different. I couldn’t get a basic compliment without them saying something offensive, “you’re kinda cute for a black guy”. I was either discriminated against or fetishizedq.

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This is a real problem that needs to be addressed, it’s bad enough that we as a whole LGBT+ community get treated the way we do by the rest of the world but it’s even worse when we come to our own community for shelter and yet, we still get treated harshly because of our skin colour and/or ethnicity. I’ve had enough.

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