#hoteppery

[sitta-pusilla]

[yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666]

found it! make sense of this: dude says it proves that the olmecs were black.

[yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666]

Strangely a lot of the hoteppery is mixed with respectability politics without even the faintest hint of irony.

[yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666]

the creator of this image is trying to say black people were the original inhabitants of hawai'i.

i guess hair bleach was around back then. *shrugs*

[yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666]

I'm getting a PhD., in hotepology.

i know dude probably means goat's milk is better for people with a lot of melanin in their skin but this info-graphic implies that there's another color of cow's milk.

[yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666]

"actual women"

"you're not as well read as I am" that sure is a funny way of saying "you don't read the same cracker jack box panels that I do"

[charis-libra]

scarab beetles have been my favorite since i was 8 years old...

damn hoteps better not be using it in their artwork and symbolism.

[sitta-pusilla]

This week in hotep nonsense

So the latest trend seems to be insisting that menstruation is “unnatural” (actually not a new thing for hoteps, but one with a big following recently made a video preaching about how “your ancestors didn’t run around bleeding” so here we are)

And because they are hoteps, they mean specifically that menstruating is unnatural for Black women. The fact that hundreds of millions of Black women menstruate is merely due to the corrupting influence of the White man. I am not exaggerating. They say this shit verbatim. If you engage, you get a spiel about holistic African diets that we all should be eating, and that cauliflower is evil because it contains carbon (whaaat?). But that’s further down the rabbit hole than I care to go.

Anyway, Black twitter is having a field day with this new bit of hoteppery, and it is glorious. An argument popped off on my TL about whether or not animals menstruate, and I figured I could provide some clarity because I’m an insufferable know-it-all biologist.

That was a mistake.

The vast majority of mammals do not menstruate (which is what I said), and the hoteps seized on that. My mentions were in shambles. I said (a few times!) that just because menstruation is unique doesn’t mean it’s unnatural. Most mammals don’t fly, but that doesn’t mean bats are unnatural. Then I had people asking me if humans were mammals (wut?), and insisting that their pet dog got her period every month, same time as she did (wtf?!), and saying that they went vegan and their period changed from 6 days to 2, so how can menstruating be normal (omg!). It ended up with me having to explain the difference between the estrous cycle and the menstrual cycle and fucking starvation in a big-ass thread https://twitter.com/Sitta_pusilla/status/711675583273558016

Here’s the punchline: during the course of all this (a little over an hour?) I get my period, almost 2 weeks early, and I swear it was the stress of dealing with these goofy-ass questions that brought it on.