i’m not being funny at all when i say i truly do not love men as a whole, nothing close, there are men that i care for in my life but on a general scale i’m indifferent and skeptical when it comes to men.
you can not teach girls to constantly be prepared and wary of rape, abuse and murder from men, blame them for their own abuse when they’re not, and then turn around and expect them to simultaneously love them, what kind of joke.
A lot of Black people feel this way about White people, especially my parents’ generation and older. White people, you can’t just kill, injure, overpolice, and over-incarcerate a bunch of us, blame us for those things and their consequences, and simultaneously expect us to love you.
these two are what happens when parents slam their children’s heads against a brick wall repeatedly
Damn shit like that could happen to anyone. Women abuse and rape men all the time. Black people abuse and rape non-black people all the time. The world isn’t as black and white as ya’ll make it out to be.
no one said that women don’t abuse and rape men and no one said that black people don’t abuse and rape non-black people (that isn’t anywhere close to the issues that @kdyree talked about but I mean like.. alright)
what was said is that the idea of raising us to be constantly aware and ready for the potential harm and abuse that oppressing groups may inflict on us, purely in order to avoid the inconvenience of those oppressing groups being self-aware and critical of themselves and each other, and THEN turning around and expecting us to simultaneously love them, is ridiculous.
no one says that women don’t abuse and rape men, but no men grow up being hyper aware of how they’re dressing, how they’re talking, what their body language may be misinterpreted as, No men are warned by their fathers not to go to certain places alone or not to stay out too late, all because a woman may rape them, men aren’t raised to constantly alter their own behaviour and freedom in order to avoid the potential violence of women, and then simultaneously expected to love them.
I’m not going to write a paragraph about the experiences of black people because I’m white and I can’t even begin to imagine what it’s like having to grow up and have to constantly and quietly protect themselves because it might make me and other white people uncomfortable to acknowledge racism. but I can however recognize that the idea of black people being expected to unquestionably love white people in a culture where they’re also constantly being discriminated and punished by them is ridiculous, so why the fuck can’t you?
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