lovewitch2016:

officialmitski:

shikax:

officialmitski:

just a reminder tht wanting woc you admire to “choke you” or “stomp on you” etc is racist so stop it. i will block you.

can you please explain why?

this post was specifically about how white pple talk about woc, tht was its context.

@lovewitch2016 has a really good post on this tht i think explains it perfectly, here’s a screenshot of it as well as a link to it

https://officialmitski.tumblr.com/post/177968170986/stop-associating-women-of-color-butch

Hey, thanks for recommending my post! I wanted to expand on it. 

Associating women of color with violence & aggression is specifically the result of colonial, gendered violence – the construction of white womanhood as “fragile / pure / in need of being protected” relied especially on the dehumanization and rape of enslaved Black women, of indigenous women, and of various colonized women from Asian/African/South American countries. This tactic of coercively masculinizing women of color (especially Black women, and dark-skinned women of color) maintains the white supremacist, patriarchal project, because it ensures that white women can get away with benefiting from their whiteness, and can hide their participation in white violence, while it keeps women of color subjugated and erases the horror and brutality of sexual violence that women of color continually face from various sources (not just from men within their own cultural/racial/ethnic groups). The more you fetishize women of color in this manner, the more you contribute to various disparities they face (such as in health care – the notion that Black women don’t experience pain, for instance, is probably one of the biggest reasons they don’t get the help they need with reproductive or gynecological care, contributing to the high rates of maternal deaths that Black women face; or as another example, indigenous Hawaiian women have incredibly high rates of breast cancer, that cannot be divorced from the American colonization of Hawaii), the more you erase their struggles with mental illness and psychosocial violence (most people don’t know, for instance, that elderly Asian-American women have incredibly high rates of suicide) – and you also maintain a culture in which people do not believe that women of color are actually impacted by sexual violence, such that when it does happen, people don’t pay attention and don’t care. 

Some further reading: 

• Consent: It’s Not Sexy – written by a panel of writers who survived sexual violence; pay particular attention to the Black women and the people of color who speak about which survivors are given a platform and which ones aren’t 
• How white women use strategic tears to silence women of color  – Ruby Hamad
• Ain’t I A Woman? – Sojourner Truth 
• The Coloniality of Gender – Maria Lugones 

(I also think it’s common sense not to continually project violence upon anyone but I forget that it’s casual to dehumanize and objectify women of color at this point.)