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Masculinity and Femininity are fictional concepts.

Let's focus on humanity.

Society teaches us how to be "masculine" how to be "feminine". But no one teaches us how to be HUMAN.

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Dear White People

Wearing all black on June 19th DOES NOT make you an ally

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Dear White People

Calling a Black woman "African queen" isn't a compliment

Unless you're talking to a Queen of Africa

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“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting the rest of our lives.”

— Lemony Snicket; The Ersatz Elevator

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Dear White People

The problem with the statement:

"I don't see color" (as in race/ethnicity)

It sounds like,

"I'm closing my eyes to the part of you that makes me uncomfortable"

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#DearWhitePeople

Asking a Black Woman about her hair doesn't make you an ally

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When men oppress their fellowmen, the oppressor ever finds, in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for his oppression

—Frederick Douglass

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Any woman who is sure of her own wits is a match at any time for a man who is not sure of his own temper

Wilkie Collins

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"women, children, and dogs are loved unconditionally"

Who loves women unconditionally?

Do men love women unconditionally?

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The confines of enslavement were producing Black people who were intellectually, psychologically, culturally, and behaviorally different,

Not inferior.

Ibram X Kendi, Stamped From the Beginning

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The [mammy] stereotype masculinized Black femininity while emphasizing the ultra-femininity of their White counterparts

Ibram X Kendi, Stamped From the Beginning

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This is so true. Could it be because friends connect the writing to you, whereas strangers connect it to themselves?

“The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.”

— Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2

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"Don't get into a fight with a pig. You both will get muddy but THE PIG LIKES IT" — Unknown

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"The Dora Milaje share similarities with the Dahomey Amazons (Agoji), the all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey,[3][4][5] which was located in West Africa in what is now the Republic of Benin."

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"the physics of light showed that Whiteness was 'the chiefest color.' Newton took it up on himself to substantiate Boyle's color law: light is white is standard." - Ibram X Kendi

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The difference between a narcissist and someone with narcissistic personality disorder is a narcissist doesn't see their behavior as a problem.