To my fellow POC who be on Facebook all damn day talking shit. Y’all be making statuses like, “Dark-skinned Black women to the front! Defend black women!” Or always telling other people to check their cis and/or male and/or light-skinned privileges. Or telling each other to check yourselves about the privilege of white proximity. But a lot of y’all can’t handle being told to stay in your place, or to shut up. Y’all can’t handle having your fucking politics investigated because you know that shit is on shaky ground.
I don’t give a fuck about your politics on these statuses if that’s the only time you can think about “intersectionality”. Y’all don’t ever step back and think about how your interpersonal relationships and conversations are fucking fake as fuck and fall into the same patterns of the shit you always calling out on Facebook. Isn’t that fakeness exhausting?
Y’all keep tryna come up with new privileges and new ways to tell other people to shut up, like with pretty privilege and social clout. The majority of the time I see y’all talking about these privileges, you’re applying them to Black and Brown cis/trans women. CUZ Y’ALL STILL DON’T KNOW HOW THE FUCK TO TREAT CIS/TRANS WOMEN RIGHT. But you’re so ready to flame bitches for survival—for trying to make it.
Social clout for Black and brown women, wtf is that? Seeing men try to come at bitches for social clout is really fucking disgusting. Some of y’all are bitter, some of y’all are old, and a lot of y’all are mad. I’m sorry you didn’t make it. I’m sorry people don’t fuck with you. I’m sorry you don’t got the juice like that.
And to be honest, a lot of the loudest voices talking about clout and pretty privilege are fucked up in REAL LIFE, treat Black women like trash in REAL LIFE, and abuse and gaslight black women in REAL LIFE. But then wanna come here and complain. You haven’t earned the right sweetie. Fall all the way back with that fake shit.
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