“I was wondering how long it would take for the colour of my skin to come into this”. — Man on the Internet
One would be forgiven for thinking this was said by a POC, because this is something that, unfortunately, comes up regularly in conversation but no.
Our starling wordsmith above, however, was white and genuinely believed his skin color was the issue in his belittling of a woman's experience.
I was being racist, as a white woman for saying, to a white man, that his piece was “an unwanted white man’s opinion at best”.
Interjection for the white supremacists to say, white people are not oppressed, especially white men, therein it’s not “reverse racism”, “racism” or any tangent off these words.
Our poor “racially challenged” friend had written a piece about a woman who recorded men at the gym because they were “creeping on her” and it can be summarised as follows:
- He wasn’t even looking at her weird
- Her clothes were tight, she has a big Instagram following, and get this — she has an OnlyFans account — she’s not entitled to be creeped out.
- She needs to shut the f*ck up.
The language was judgemental, the undertones were, let’s call it what it is —…
