Rainbow Rage

If you have Common's album play the song They Say as you read this

Because I am many things about it. Furious, Homicidal,Sad. Scared, ad infinitum .

Not shocked. Not in the least.

Ladies and gentlemen it only gets worse from here.


For every single Duke horror show , Harvard,Yale, Pton have at least four no one speaks on.


Why I can only tell you what I know :Colors of a rainbow

Duke Blue

Red Burqua

Money Green

Black and White


Black and White.

I went out with a coworker to Trader Joe's . We started talking about men and dating. As two sistas we tried to figure out why we struggled so much with dating and mating. Both college educated my girl has a few years on me but still the same thing. We worried about being Bougie about not being down because we had both been told that we wanted " educated men " and that asking for more eliminated lots " of good brothers. Or the males at frat parties who talk about they like Asian women because their better girlfriends. Or the hot Latina's who make awesome flings because their so "spicy". Poor Easy White Trash wannabes The angry dykes. the good girls

Lookit all of us in our places nice all in a row. What we are allowed to have what we are supposed to expect. A woman is like a car or a wine or something the sayings go. She can be bought in many different flavors but if she is not good she can only be good for what shes good for. She is not supposed to expect anything until she is a good girl and then she'll do what is expected. Regardless of your politics ,religion, there is a " good girl/woman" one that follows the script anyone who doesnt is either project ( to become the ideal) or refuse .

How we'll look,walk,talk be gets quickly reduced ( often by OURSELVES) and slotted . Hell to pay to the girl who doesn't remember her slot


Money Green

If that sista had enough money to pay her bills,take care of her kids, and handle her life desires and responsibilities she would not have been in that house.

Period.

She needed to pay for her kids her life style and her college while hopefully making enough money to maybe not stick said kids in care every moment of their young lives. In her mind she had to make that money.

Stripping, for a woman with no degree and not a lot of free time to throw around is a nice way to make money. We have shit options that don't involve flipping burgers for peopel without degrees. Which is hilarious as degrees get more expensive to get and payback less and less. But athletic scholarship having fools had money money to burn money to give. Money to make charges go away money money money. If she needs it to live why should she have to be afraid for her life when making it. oh wait that's not the way good girls make money.

So now a woman without a degree and viable options becomes not agoodgirl. She's dismissable.

Red Burqa

Sistren BFP has about three or four posts on both the Burqa and the dialogue flow in response but only one thing truly struck me when I saw the ad that is being discussed

US vs. THEM.

Mobilize so that we're not turned into them.

Women of color, women of poverty, women of sexualities varied, women of size, immigrant women, are the stick to the carrot.

While Bfp made a wonderful response to a post from Samhita after I had a small fuck this and I'm done moment . I would like to respond now to Both that post and a response by Smackdog.

MY( me myself and I) problem with this entire thing is the use of other women's experience's to scare other women into political action. WITHOUT.ANY.CONTEXT.

Burqa=Islam=Taliban= subjugation=removal of abortion options

some Islamic women may justify the burqa as their own symbol of feminist resistance from within Islam is their right and perogative, and all progressives should respect their position and give them the respect they deserve...but how does that relate to opposing restrictive laws here in the United States??

Exactly couldn't agree with you more,so why do American women get to appropriate it for THEIR political protest? The most striking tactic they can come up with is the announcement that the religious garb of others is teh ultimate opression that could be acheived? SO the fact that more than a few people are incensed that once again the bodies of brown women are used as a scare tactic while the voices of brown women are ignored is what ?

To label these women who do resist such a restrictive code as "imperialist Western elitists" is no less overgeneralizing and scapegoating than labeling all Islamic people (or all Arabs) as "terrorists" or "Islamic fundamentalists"...and, coming from people whom I assume would oppose restrictions on women's freedoms, simply smacks of the same elitism that they throw like so much cowchips at the TennGW group.

But calling any woman who sees this use as imperialist ( the right to use and move custom and tradition within their own critique) Western ( mind you the focus of the shirt isn't that that the burqa is bad but the enforcement of it on WESTERN women is the problem , yes it's only a tshirt yes it can only say so much but thats the choice they made), Elitism ( time and time again anyone who had an issue with it is derided as sensitive or throwing cowchips).

It is NOT directed towards women in Iraq or Afghanistan or even Arab or Muslim women; it is directed towards women IN AMERICA who are indeed being threatened with the loss of basic American freedoms by the dominant ruling fundamentalist Right....

You're right again and women IN AMERICA are offended, not only by the fact it's used but by the fact that expressing an opinion is being seen as trying to define someone else's feminism . Because our concerns are simple and not at all nuanced? Because actually you know engaging our concerns is being pulled into a " cyber cat fight". Because exchaging ideas with us is automatically beneath discourse and into a catfight?Because engaging American women involves the frightenng prospect of making them look like an exotified automatically oppressed other. Also no one in my reading seems to present Islam feminism as truer or better . What we have is a problem is with cultural appropriation sterotypes and fear mongering being used as a tactic once agin on borown backs and then being dismissed out of hand as over sensitivity?YEah you have your own rights to take care of ( or defend) but stop acting like it means you can't be called on the carpet for it

This isn’t about clothing.

Damn Right

It’s about global patriarchal oppression in all its nefarious manifestations. We’re not the enemy, sister; get that straight.

Don't tell us or anyone else who and what the enemy is. I and ( to some extent we ) expressed a problem with your tactics and belittling our opinions is different from patriarchy how?

Red State America isn’t quite Afghanistan yet, and we’re using the time-honored strategies of dress and whatever other readily recognizable visual cues we can to make sure that doesn’t happen.

So you used the easy recognizeable cue and it was offensive and it may help ( your admittedly worthy cause) and women of various cultures got offended . Fine. But stop telling us it's in our heads or were being anti sex or some other thing because we don't like it. I've listened I've heard and I think you're wrong . Engage me dialogue with me but if you don't want to that's your choice and someone calling you out is their choice.

Personally one of the best examples of budding young feminism I saw came from a young philly girl defending her decison to wear Hijaab and her headscarf. Someone kept pulling on it and disrespecting her . She damn near killed him. My kind of girl


I have said time and time again in this blog shit in one damn post that no one get's to define your feminism ( or your feminity or what you say) . Feminism isn't a one stream thing . Liking sex isn't a one stream thing. It's also not a damn competition. Instead of solidarity among ourselves it becomes about sticking it to the patriarchy? Because men should really be the focus . Every moment that lines get deeper and women stop cross looking or asking themselves about their biases ( myself included) and the focus switches from making EVERY WOMAN AVAILABLE AND ABLE TO MAKE HER OWN FUCKING CHOICE to sticking it

The man

we make so many potholes for women to fall through the cracks .


But I'm being overly sesi... Nope nope I'm not

Duke Blue

I am young. Like still have milk on my breath young. I truly truly don't understand the obsession with people my age and the college experience. I especially don't get the obsession with elite experience in teh media. Why are folks shocked. When the only expectation given these people is " DON'T EMBARASS US" because rich privileged girls and boys are the future of America? Except they're not , They're the connections of America working for teh connected. The real stellar work is being done by the classmates they make fun off, or who don't have all the time to be drinking at keggers.

Fuck "Work Hard . Play Hard "

What about work hard do well?

I've been in the " Ivy League" since ten:

A few rapes

A porn scandal

Got told I should be raped ( and took it as a compliment hello mind warping isolationism)

A few niggers tossed casually around

And the swearing up and down I was an AA admit to my college

Because entrance into privilege in their minds is connected with entitlement not work. They're entitled so they got out entitled not out worked.

These are the ones we coddle and carry and mew and aaah over. Here's my question when was the last time a really influential social change started from the privileged?

No all the privileged aren't evil but why do w e enjoy or seem shocked that peopel who think having any job is working have no sense of life. The fact that they sucked at teh one thing that is constantly asked of them is the only reason we are shocked.

When they were young slave masters ,or emissaries, or an historical power holders it was expected. What has really been done to break that code?

I'm a six foot black woman with almond eyes a redheaded mama and a Scotch Irish landed name,scuse me as I am completely unshocked

White men rape black women?!?! No !

And certain student responses show it out. Surrounding residences who complain about noise are asked why they live near a college ? Because you ignorant fuckheads colleges especially all the top fives EXCEPT Princeton were placed in poor areas ( often black) for cheap land so they have very few other places to go! Because it shouldn't be expected that you kee p your irresponsible drinking and asswholishness to your own property , because you can't be embarassing if you do it to the poor folk around the college. Cause they should suffer for being in your presence.

So pressure shows the true colors of the thing no?


Shes a stripper a bad girl .

She's poor

She's off the radar ( and kept off it) before this in many a discussion cause she fit's nobody's feminist profile

She's lacking privilege.

See had the nerve to forget her slot.She had the nerve to want better and use whatever she could to do so

Furious yes. Shocked no

When even progressive movements demand you fit in or suffer who the fuck is shocked . When children are not taught at all that other people should matter. Not because of some shiny happy people bullshit but because we share the earth with them and they deserve respect. Not because it makes you look a like a good person because you SHOULD WANT TO BE A GOOD PERSON.

When competition is everything and actual acheivement is nothing. When a woman has to choose between her safety and her abillity to eat and get's called stupid. Cause she has no right to expect anything and her ALLEGED attackers feel entitled to everything

Phil Collins sang about this

I see your true colors...................


and because nobody has been arrested even NOW

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