OMG everyone I know the ACTUAL story behind the gif this time!
Yes, it’s in Australia– that’s a big angry goanna that wandered into a popular restaurant. All the Australians in the vicinity went OH FUCK NO and cleared off, because goannas are mean.
The waitress you see there is a French exchange student, who was quoted as saying something to the effect of “I thought it was a weird ugly dog” and had no idea it was a reptile that wanted to rip her arms off. She’s been hailed as a hero who saved diners.
While flocks of women are reliving and telling tales of their disturbing experiences with alleged Hollywood predator Harvey Weinstein, one of Buzzfeed’s woke black writers has other things on her mind; the lack of diversity of his victims.
In an article for Buzzfeed titled “There’s an elephant in Harvey Weinstein’s hotel room”, Feminist Bim Adewunmi laments the fact that all of Harvey’s victims are white, and argues that the reason black women do not get leading roles in movies is because they are often seen as “not fuckable” by producers.
She argues that while the sexual assault allegations against Harvey are mainly being an issue about sexual harassment, they are also an issue about race:
The elephant in the room in discussions about the alleged crimes and misdemeanors of Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein looks eerily similar to an elephant of the past. It is the Race elephant. And among the allegations, the question of race is one that we are not really looking to engage with, because it is knotty and gnarly.
But it bears talking about, because there are black women in Hollywood, and not talking about it does us all a disservice.In Hollywood, where both racism and sexism are rampant, what can look like a sort of mitigated blessing ends up highlighting another insidious problem in (the societal microcosm that is) Hollywood: Black women do not often come up for the kind of prestigious high-profile and award-winning roles that a producer with Weinstein’s power could offer.……..
If we are to discern a general message about black women (and other women of color) from the product churned out by Hollywood, it is that they are not seen as leading role material, and that is intertwined with the idea that they are not desirable “trophies.”
I would think not being considered a desirable trophy by a sexual predator is a good thing… but that’s just me.
She continues:
…….the narrative coming out of Hollywood right now is about the victims who have come forward with allegations specifically against Harvey Weinstein, and that list is largely made up of white women. This is worth remarking upon, not because it is odd, but because it is decidedly quotidian, considering who is permitted to be in the room at even the lowest levels of the industry.…….
In an industry as white as Hollywood, the racially problematic “attraction question” is part of what reduces the shelf life of black actresses as a matter of course, causing many of them to get half as far in twice the time it takes their white counterparts.
To be deemed “fuckable” is not the honor a certain kind of man (and woman) believes it to be, but the ideas of fuckability are entrenched, and they serve to exclude black women very early on in the conversation — while dooming the women who do go on to get the roles to gross sexual harassment or assault
Now this is where things start getting weird.
She lists the different movies that have been produced by Weinstein’s production company, and notes that very few of them have starred black women. Her conclusion: Harvey Weinstein doesn’t want to sexually abused black women (As if that is a bad thing):
A cursory glance of both companies’ slates suggests fewer than 10 films starring black women or other women of color, Jackie Brown (1997), Frida (2002), Bride and Prejudice (2004), and Southside With You (2016) being the most recognizable. Black women weren’t even making it into Weinstein’s predatory thought process except, probably, to be expressly excluded.
I guess we should be alarmed that a serial sexual harasser didn’t incorporate diversity into his harassment escapades.
i want to fucking die i was at the dollar store and i carefully picked up an orange gatorade and went “sexy boy….” because i thought no one else was around but it turns out i was WRONG
i know because i heard a quiet “what the fuck bro” from the next aisle over
I wanna preface this by saying that I think that free medical care is important and I fully support it - I’m not American and I’m not right wing. However, this tweet is a bit of a strawman. They think that everybody has the right to medical care in the exact same way that they think that everybody has the right to guns - they think that everybody should have the right to go out and pay for those things. They don’t support free medical care, but they also don’t advocate for the government to give everybody free guns.
the point is that due to someone else having access to a gun the survivors now face expensive medical bills, that they will have no ability to recover by legal means, or help from the government. When they didn’t do anything (like buying the gun that hurt them) to earn the medical bill.
That’s not the point though. The tweet, and lots of people on here, are claiming that there’s a hypocrisy in the opinions of the GOP people because they support certain rights but do not support free healthcare, when that hypocrisy doesn’t exist because the rights that they support aren’t rights to get free versions of that thing. If the person in the tweet wanted to make the argument you said - which I think is a good argument to make - they should’ve made that argument, not repeated the same old strawman soundbite.
The comparison appeared in a passage of Clinton's new book contemplating the role sexism played in her failed presidential bid.
In her new book “What Happened,” Hillary Clinton compared the vitriol she faced on the campaign trail to Cersei Lannister’s walk of ATONEMENT in the hit TV series Game of Thrones.
i’M SORRY WHAT THE FUCK HAVE SHE EVER ATONE FOR?
In a passage contemplating the role sexism played in her failed presidential bid, Clinton wrote, “Crowds at Trump rallies called for my imprisonment more times than I can count.”
“They shouted, ‘Guilty! Guilty!’ like the religious zealots in Game of Thrones chanting, ‘Shame! Shame!’ while Cersei Lannister walked back to the Red Keep,” Clinton wrote.
In Season 5, Cersei was stripped naked and marched through the streets of King’s Landing as citizens jeered and threw garbage at her.
Actress Lena Headey told Entertainment Weekly there was a part of her that was “f—ing terrified” getting in the character’s mindset to film the emotional public shaming scene.
“I can’t even imagine people wanting your blood. Cersei has done wrong, but she doesn’t really deserve this,” Headey said.
In her memoir, Clinton said she was taken aback by the “flood of hatred” she faced in the run-up to election day, saying she was “one of the most admired public servants in America” after her tenure as Secretary of State.She wrote, “Now people seemed to think I was evil…Was this all because I’m a woman? No. But I believe it was motivation for some of those chanters and some of that bile.”
IN OTHER NEWS: They’re making a movie based on her book and they already have a poster!
To be fair if a Muslim bombed and killed the same amount of people, a lot of the ones getting angry about this would immediately bring up ways to stop it.
And that's not a bad thing. Thinking we should put the issue on ice and wait out of respect doesn't help. I think actively finding ways to minimise these attacks is the best way to respect the ones who were affected by this tragedy.
Gravity is a construct made by the patriarchal society we live in.
Don’t you see how women often aren’t capable of lifting objects that men usually can lift?? Gravity is a theory, and theories are made by people. In this case, a scientist named Peter Maller created it. It just goes to show how all men are actively seeking ways for them to oppress women.
Gravity is a construct made by the patriarchal society we live in.
Don’t you see how women often aren’t capable of lifting objects that men usually can lift?? Gravity is a theory, and theories are made by people. In this case, a scientist named Peter Maller created it. It just goes to show how all men are actively seeking ways for them to oppress women.
