Recently there's been this thing going on in the debate community about how using "you guys" is gendered and how we shouldn't use it because it reduces everything to the masculine self-same bla bla bla.
Or things like "dude" or someone defaulting to "man" as the term, such as in "man-down" and then some annoying fucking liberal pipes, "Why not woman?"
Because "woman-down" is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard?
Because why don't you shove your armchair activism down your throat?
Like, I get the whole "this sort of rhetoric is the kind of social violence we perform on everyday level" behind this whole shenanigan, but it's this whole policing thing and who's doing the policing that really pisses me off. Whether or not someone says "you guys" does nothing for things like gender economic inequality or those crazies in the government who want to fucking take away women's constitutional right to abortion. It's fucking easy for a white girl born into an affluent family going to a rich white private college to say that and believe she's making a real change in the world because she told five of her friends to not say "you guys".
It's like suddenly everyone cares so much about minorities and oppression, and preaching their values about including more minorities in debate and acting all high and mighty because they are now supporting a good cause, like they're God's gift to these minorities...and then they go back to their comfortable lives doing jackshit for the groups they care so much about.
I just sit back and laugh, man. I laugh at the world and the irony of it all. At our inability to come to terms with our own privilege other than paying lip service to social movements and our narcissistic thinking what we say in our lives matters so damn much to other people. It is all just so laughable. I shatter your fucking fantasy with my laugh.
When you start policing people, you become the police. When you start preaching, you become the hegemon.
Sometimes, people just need to stop saying dumb things. Stop throwing around big words when you don't relate to them in any way. Stop trying to impose meaning on people when your own life is sapped of meaning because you are unable to see beyond material existence, your trite values and your TV screen.
Meanwhile, I'm just going to sit back and enjoy watching you live out your white guilt without ever coming to terms with it. It is pretty amusing.
Or things like "dude" or someone defaulting to "man" as the term, such as in "man-down" and then some annoying fucking liberal pipes, "Why not woman?"
Because "woman-down" is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard?
Because why don't you shove your armchair activism down your throat?
Like, I get the whole "this sort of rhetoric is the kind of social violence we perform on everyday level" behind this whole shenanigan, but it's this whole policing thing and who's doing the policing that really pisses me off. Whether or not someone says "you guys" does nothing for things like gender economic inequality or those crazies in the government who want to fucking take away women's constitutional right to abortion. It's fucking easy for a white girl born into an affluent family going to a rich white private college to say that and believe she's making a real change in the world because she told five of her friends to not say "you guys".
It's like suddenly everyone cares so much about minorities and oppression, and preaching their values about including more minorities in debate and acting all high and mighty because they are now supporting a good cause, like they're God's gift to these minorities...and then they go back to their comfortable lives doing jackshit for the groups they care so much about.
I just sit back and laugh, man. I laugh at the world and the irony of it all. At our inability to come to terms with our own privilege other than paying lip service to social movements and our narcissistic thinking what we say in our lives matters so damn much to other people. It is all just so laughable. I shatter your fucking fantasy with my laugh.
When you start policing people, you become the police. When you start preaching, you become the hegemon.
Sometimes, people just need to stop saying dumb things. Stop throwing around big words when you don't relate to them in any way. Stop trying to impose meaning on people when your own life is sapped of meaning because you are unable to see beyond material existence, your trite values and your TV screen.
Meanwhile, I'm just going to sit back and enjoy watching you live out your white guilt without ever coming to terms with it. It is pretty amusing.
2 comments:
I know what you mean, esp in regards to those who try to stand up for minorities by using racial natural language but in reality have little to do with them
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