OCHWM Intersectional Feminist

Everything about me in one post: http://sans-fedora.tumblr.com/post/131425088491/how-to-be-a-cis-het-white-male-intersectional    You're better off messaging me directly if you want me to respond to something specific.

[sans-fedora]

Hi, I'm Black. I was born and raised in the UK. I don't understand how you can say white people don't have culture? The UK is rich with culture and I feel I am part of it, does that mean white people that live here arnt part of their own culture? Why are you trying to create more of a divide?

le epic troll m8 XD. yeah, if you're sending this to me anonymously, I don't have to believe anything you say. No surprise that all the questions I get on this account come from anons. Weaklings who would never want to sign their faces to their words!

[sans-fedora]

Trans-Racial Adoption is a Hate Crime

Reasons why:

1. They are denying the child a culture, since white people don’t have a culture. 

2. They are looking for a living accessory.

3. They are cultivating a new recipient of white privilege that will ultimately be self-hating. In the end, the only beneficiaries of whiteness are actual white people. No matter how hard the child will try, they will never be physically white, and therefore useless to other white people.

[meley-mensch]

“white people don’t have a culture”

Yeah, there’s this pretty big continent called Europe, you might have heard of it. There’s quite a lot of White people there and quite a bit of culture too. Might wanna check it out.

[sans-fedora]

Yeah there's a pretty big problem called Western Imperialism and its constant cultural appropriation. You are right white people have a culture; they stole it from everyone else.

[sans-fedora]

You've many times said stuff like "white people dont have a culture" and stuff like that. What is the definition of culture to you. Is it cool dresses and food or what. I'm from Sweden which have a culture. We have our national dress, our own holidays and traditions and more. And in the north theres indigenous people called Sami which have a very rich culture. And now I know Sweden isn't just white people. But majority is. what I'm wondering is my culture not a culture just because I'm white?

Oh look, another white person who thinks they are important enough to be talked about in an intersectional conversation… next!

[sans-fedora]

Your Vote Should Be Public

I'm hearing a lot of arguments on why we should abandon the electoral college. Frankly, there are good arguments on both sides, so I don't think we could have stopped a Trump Presidency (I want to kill myself for writing those two words next to each other) using only popular votes. Here is my proposition of how to prevent it while still keeping the electoral college. This can also cut down on voter fraud.

We just need a public government database that lists everyone that voted and who they voted for. The problem with voting privately is that most people's racism/sexism/homophobia/etc are manifested strongest when they know they can get away with it. Bigots have largely been pushed into private circles now since there is so much backlash (rightly so) when they act out in public. The problem is that they are still a bigot, and their votes harm marginalized people.

We need drag these bigots from the shadows and into the light so they can be held accountable for their actions. If you voted correctly, you would have nothing to fear. If you voted for violent policies against already victimized people, you are scum and you need to answer for it.

[sans-fedora]

Trump’s Black Outreach

Look, it was bad enough when Trump was just sticking to his own xenophobic, misogynistic, and racist side. He pandered to scared whites who felt like they were losing their place in the world (which they are). He otherized practically any non-white, non-male demographic he could get his small orange hands on. But recently, he’s been trying something new and it’s frankly the scariest thing he’s done.

He’s been addressing black communities directly and asking them to vote for him. Let’s brush aside, for now, the fact he’s using incredibly demeaning language when describing the black experience in America. They are not all uneducated criminals as he implies. Let’s focus on the subtext of his proposals to ‘fix’ black communities. 

Trump’s biggest complaints with black communities are that they are 1) full of crime, 2) have bad schools, and 3) suffer from unemployment. Now let’s consider how a neo-fascist would approach these issues.

1) Trump will send scores more of police into black communities. That’s right, the main government-backed executioner of blacks in America, the US police force, is his answer to protect black people. Nice sick joke. Make no mistake, his efforts to police blacks more will only lead to further devastation and incarceration. It would be a spit in the face to everyone in BlackLivesMatter who worked so hard to make important changes.

2) After he’s done killing what he deems as ‘enough’ black people, he will start to re-educate the remaining few. Yes, admittedly, the school system in some black communities are not the best, but that’s only because we don’t get the funding we need. If Trump ever comes around to giving communities adequate funding for education, it will come with strings attached. I don’t really want to imagine what kind of garbage he will force black youth to learn.

3) If you have a lot of unemployment in your country and you’re a neo-fascist, the solution is easy. Make your citizens into slaves. Trump will put blacks to work: against their will and for no wages. 

[sans-fedora]

This is really hard but I know Id want someone to tell me if I was in this situation so here goes: to be completely honest, I think u should give a go at something other than comedy. I applaud ur effort and devotion to ur craft, technique, characters, but u really need to either really develop ur comedy or throw in the towel. I understand what its like to give up on a dream, I too had to after someone was honest with me. Your blog is just not as funny as you think it is. Just kinda cringey.

filed under: someone completely delusional who thinks being progressive is an unfunny joke.

[sans-fedora]

In my highschool we have a maskembal and everyone should be dressed up like someone/something. I wanna go as Frida Khalo but i dont know if its okay since im white :/

filed under: stupid questions

[sans-fedora]

Assimilation is Oppression

The stuff happening in Syria breaks my heart. If it were up to me, I would be taking in all of the refugees. I’m really angry that Obama isn’t taking in more, he is dooming these people to a terrible death. However, we need to be smart about taking in refugees.

Assimilation is Oppression, and America should play no part in trying to impose its culture onto refugees. American culture is lined with patriarchy and white supremacy. If we tried to make the Syrian refugees assimilate to that, it would put them into a situation that is arguably worse than the one they were escaping from.

I want them to preserve their individuality and uniqueness. We colonized them physically once before, and it would break my heart again to watch us colonize their minds when they flee here. So please, if you ever meet a refugee, don’t push them to do anything they are uncomfortable with. It is the compassionate thing to do.

[yourownpetard]

If i was drinking anything I would have squirted it out my nose.

Did you just imply that American Culture is more patriarchal than Syrian culture?

Also, that’s not what “colonize” means and you know it.

[alaija]

“ If it were up to me, I would be taking in all of the refugees. “

Either you have no idea how many there are or you are completely nuts.

  “ Assimilation is Oppression …”

No. It is not.

Forced assimilation perhaps (see treatment of Aboriginal people in Canada and Australia), but assimilation itself is not.

“ …America should play no part in trying to impose its culture onto refugees. “

So you are against refugees in America then? Because obviously refugees in America are going to adapt to American society and become at least somewhat “assimilated”. Give it two generations and most people will have forgotten they are immigrants.

“ American culture is lined with patriarchy …”

I see you know nothing of the people you think you are defending. Hint; Arab societies are patriarchal. This article is from before the war :  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8460522.stm

“… white supremacy. “

Technically Syrians are classified as “white”. So no problems there.

“… into a situation that is arguably worse than the one they were escaping from.“

You think being in a white-christian-cisheteropatriachy is worse than living in Syria?

If that’s the case why are you advocating taking in all the refugees into such  an oppressive society? You monster!!!

“ I want them to preserve their individuality and uniqueness. “

So patriarchy is bad, smash the patriarchy!!! Except when the sweet innocent Muslims do it.  

Yeah nothing ironic about this.

“ We colonized them physically once before, and it would break my heart again to watch us colonize their minds when they flee here. “

America didn’t colonise Syria. Syria was not a European colony at all! (Unless you count Turks).

With the breakup of the Ottoman empire, of which Syria was a part, following World War One Syria was a under a French Mandate. This only lasted from 1920 to the French-Syrian treaty in 1936.

“ So please, if you ever meet a refugee, don’t push them to do anything they are uncomfortable with. “

Like live up to the same standards of behaviour as everyone else?

“ It is the compassionate thing to do. “

It’s the “soft bigotry of low expectations”.

[sans-fedora]

@alaija you literally fetishize ‘exotic’ women. I saw the blogs you follow, you’re really gross. Nothing you say matters until you stop being so gross and racist.

[sans-fedora]

Assimilation is Oppression

The stuff happening in Syria breaks my heart. If it were up to me, I would be taking in all of the refugees. I’m really angry that Obama isn’t taking in more, he is dooming these people to a terrible death. However, we need to be smart about taking in refugees.

Assimilation is Oppression, and America should play no part in trying to impose its culture onto refugees. American culture is lined with patriarchy and white supremacy. If we tried to make the Syrian refugees assimilate to that, it would put them into a situation that is arguably worse than the one they were escaping from.

I want them to preserve their individuality and uniqueness. We colonized them physically once before, and it would break my heart again to watch us colonize their minds when they flee here. So please, if you ever meet a refugee, don’t push them to do anything they are uncomfortable with. It is the compassionate thing to do.

[sans-fedora]

A Lesson in Rape Culture

I recently decided to watch Legally Blonde (2001) with a critical feminist lens. To put it lightly, it was a horror. There are a lot of problematic elements in the film and I will illuminate one of the most jarring here.

Please watch the clip first and then read this: Elle, the main character, enables rape culture in this scene. Before we get into that, thought lets just quickly look at the start of the scene. What’s going on?

Street harassment. Guys, listen up, and listen up good: you have no right to continue talking to a woman that is not interested. You are born with a sense of entitlement that is, frankly, disgusting, and the way you pursue women as prey makes them feel incredibly victimized. The scene opens with this vile display of male chauvinism.

If Elle was a true feminist, she would have walked up to him and lectured him about his privilege. I guess 2001 was just a darker time for women in general, and I’m so proud of how much traction intersectional feminism has gained since then. 

On to the main problem: rape culture. Elle begins to lie infront of the two women about the man’s status. She inflates his already swelling ego, and ends up misleading the two girls into thinking he is some kind of sex god studmuffin. As a result, their judgement is impaired and any consent they give him is based on faulty evidence and can be retracted when the truth comes out. So if they ever do find out the truth that he is just an average dumb white boy, they can rightfully claim Rape by Deception. 

Elle knowingly allows this violence to happen, and it’s actually frightening.

[sans-fedora]

Wait, so Fathers day IS a hate crime, but Mother's day ISN'T? Sounds like sexism from you, not me. Please elaborate as to how I'm sexist. Feminism is about equality, is it not?

People have to stop saying this about feminism. Feminism isn’t about equality, it’s about the complete destruction of the white cis-hetero-normative capitalist patriarchy. Until we accomplish that, any day celebrating oppressors needs to be abolished. After that, we can talk.

[sans-fedora]

This is the Racist America we live in

source: http://heatst.com/culture-wars/more-misery-at-mizzou-as-enrollment-plummets/

If you remember Oct/Nov last year, Mizzou was the site of a #BlackLivesMatter hunger strike. The school was not properly responding to racist incidents so Johnathan Butler starved himself until something was done. It ended with the resignation of the university President.

However, a lot of investments are not leaving the college and enrollments are at an all time low. This just shows how White America reacts to Black Struggle. It ignores it.

[sans-fedora]

Celebrating ‘Father’s Day’ is a Hate Crime

1. Stop normalizing hetero-normative relationships, and gay male homo-normative relationships to some extent.

2. Stop giving men medals for nothing.

3. Acknowledge that even though there is no father, lesbian relationships are valid and beautiful.

[sans-fedora]

Is the Age of Consent an Oppressive Patriarchal Construct?

[sans-fedora]

Can Abortions be Ableist?

My girlfriend recently got pregnant with one of her poly-amorous lovers. I am of course thrilled beyond description at the prospect of having the privilege to help her raise it. However, that thrill was recently dampened after she got some news from her doctor.

Her doctor told her there is a high probability that the baby will be born with a brain disorder. The severity of the brain disorder will most likely only be moderate (and thus, ‘manageable’ according to the doctor). Upon hearing this, my girlfriend started having serious second thoughts. Up to this point she was fine with the baby but now that she knows about its possible mental state, she wants to have it aborted. While I’m very much pro-choice (I believe in abortions on demand with no apologies), I can’t help but feel there are some ableist views that she holds.

I understand that, ultimately, it is her choice. I will stand with her no matter what she does. However, are there larger Marxist Feminist implications for her actions since they are ableist to an extent?

[sans-fedora]

Age is a Social Construct

I was thinking about uncommon binary systems and I think I’ve come across one: The old oppress the young. 

Here is some proof:

     1) The right to vote

     2) Age of consent laws

     3) Child labor laws

You can see how these are forms of oppression grounded in patriarchal enforced norms. Old white men dictate what they think is good for society at the cost of freedoms for the young.

And keep in mind that with more intersections comes progressively worse oppression. Such as:

     1) Trans youth being denied their gender identity by parents

     2) Black youth murdered by crooked old cops

     3) Young women taken advantage by male adult pedophiles

Here’s the kicker though: if gender and race are social constructs, then why wouldn’t age be one as well? We know that younger people are fully capable of making informed and mature decision (like going along with their transition into their true gender). What if all the norms we associate with age are just socially constructed ideas set up by the patriarchy to discourage the spread of Marxist ideas? 

     1) If youth could vote, the Republican establishment would have been shattered into a fine dust. Just look at the voter turnout for Bernie Sanders among younger voters. The next generation knows what it wants.

     2) So much of Marxism is tied to economic freedom, and yet, youth are held back by labor laws and forced to go to school instead of cultivating a healthy love of labor unions. The revolution will only occur when everyone is on the side of the unions of all kinds, so the sooner people are introduced to them, the better.

Although I used the terms ‘youth’ and ‘young’ I think we need to do away with them if we want to have our Marxist utopia. We are all creatures with our own experiences and labels that imply age are only hindrances. 

[sans-fedora]

Stop Supporting White Cis Comedians

They aren’t funny. How long can we have white cis comedians make the same jokes, often at the expense of marginalized groups? White viners are a cancer on Vine, just as popular white comedians are a boring drag on society. Oh look... another joke about gangster grandmas... another joke about starbucks... another joke about lame-ass kids or pets. These people are as bland as their skin color. 

Boycott white cis comedians. Follow women of color, trans comedians, and other marginalized groups. Their voices are so much more important, and honestly, they are much funnier.