As vile as that word is, it's always frustrating to see white bourgeoisie feminism co-opt actual feminist talking points and ideas to protect abuses against marginalized poorer women. While y'all are debating the offensiveness of the word, hundreds of non-white women are held by the ICE, and hundreds of families are torn apart, while Ivanka Trump, hiding under the guise of benevolent motherhood, participates and enforces the system which perpetuates injustice against poor and non-white women. So yeah, Ivanka is a
****.
Here is a short opinion piece written by an immigrant woman of color:
Listen Up, ****.
“****” can be a vile slur, but context is everything. It is understandable why some may have heard Bee’s comments as in line with those meanings. Ivanka is a powerful woman, and Sex And The City assures us that there hordes of powerful white women whose ascension from the 10% to the 1% was hindered by the terrible sexism evident in words like “****.” But Bee’s comments weren’t about Ivanka’s competence or ability to exist in a “man’s world” politics and careerism— Bee began with the assumption that Ivanka wielded every bit the power and responsibility as the men around her.
Moreover, her critique of Trump wasn’t because she broke traditional gender roles; it was quite the opposite. Bee criticizes Ivanka for the way that she hides within traditional gender roles (here, motherhood), carefully cultivating an innocent image that makes her more difficult to critique than her father. Ivanka’s innocence is being leveraged in this very conversation, as she escapes into a linguistic history of women’s persecution while the most vulnerable women in our nation die at the hands of our government. #Feminism.
Bee flipped the script. She blasts Ivanka for actions carried out from a place of power, but never suggests she is out of place. Indeed, Ivanka is perfectly in her place as a champion of the systems of whiteness and wealth that created her. Here, “****” doesn’t mean “a woman with too much power in an otherwise good system.” It means, “a woman with too much power in a system that privileges the powerful; a woman who uses power to destroy others.”
And this is how free speech loses ground... The left gets outraged about a joke and the right counters with outrage about a joke - both are outraged based on partisan politics. Just looks like hypocrisy to me.
I like Bee, I dont like Barr... Both should keep their shows.
The left isn't outraged about Bee and doesn't particularly care about Roseanne, but the right has already made Roseanne a martyr and a hero, and is using Bee to distract from things like this:
Leaked photo reveals 'mass trial' of immigrants in Texas.
The only adult person in Trump's "family" who I would somewhat sympathize with is Melania. I feel like she married Donald for money, and then he decided to run for president, and now she has do to all this bullcrap that first ladies have to do. Every time I watch her, her face has the expression "I DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS SOMEONE HELP ME GET OUT".
I also wonder how she, an immigrant woman from a poor Eastern European country, feels when her hubby talks about people from "********" coming to America. Or that locker room talk... or the Stormy case.
Like I legit feel bad for Melania sometimes.
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