“Girls my size always get crap for it. It’s hard work every single day to keep that pervasive attitude out of your heart. At some point, I just didn’t bother thinking about the people who couldn’t see past it, and decided to focus instead on where my body and I are limitless. Sure, I can’t squeeze into a size 2, but I can dance up a storm and I am the softest to cuddle.”
Here’s a wonderful gem from the comments section:
2 days ago “It’s hard work every single day to keep that pervasive attitude out of your heart.”Oh Puhleeze!
At least (you’re) she’s Asian. People LOVE Asians, especially white men. Women dye their hair blond to get positive notice but they can’t turn Asian, if they could, they would. An Asian woman of any size has a leg up on all women in Amerikkka.
Just thing if you weren’t one of the “prized” minorities, say Mexican-hispanic or Black, just try and keep THAT pervasive attitude out of your heart! It wouldn’t matter how you looked, how intelligent you were or how much you accomplish, you’r still a walking piece of shit in most people’s eyes. Asians would hate you too.
Try and live with that every day and then come crying to me.
YUP
and Sara’s wonderful response:
2 days ago in reply to Michael Jordan all. oppression. is. connected.you should seriously consider where the roots of these problems are (imperialism, classism, cissexism, etc.) before further perpetuating misnomers and faulty claims like “prized minorities” and fostering even more hatred by assuming that “asians would hate you too.”
furthermore, i look asian, but i am actually mixed race, so you can go right ahead and take that to the bank. this isn’t the oppression olympics, buddy. there’s absolutely no gain in trying to “out-hurt” each other, when minorities should be working together for the total upheaval of our hate-powered, apolitical, corporate hegemony.
THESE are the things that are pervasive—not whether or not you think it’s “harder” to be a “fat asian girl” than a “black or latina girl.” structurally, the odds are stacked against you if you’re black, brown, poor, handicapped, female, trans, queer, uneducated, working class, or any subcategory that we can attach fake stigma laden with true, historical pain. all oppression is connected. that is what we live with every day, and once you can see that, THEN you can “come crying to me.” wake up, man.
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Posted September 12, 2011 at 1:59pm in race and shit hear that america ive got my leg up on you
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