#something something literal actual sisterhood and solidarity between women

[herrmit]

not to start shit but. tell me you didn't understand princess jellyfish without telling me you didn't understand princess jellyfish

[official-latvia-blog]

An anon’s 2/2 ask from my inbox: “I do not want to sound rude. I am in America the past year or so, and I make a few friends in high school then college. I have to say but Latvians are very judgmental this is true but Americans seem very are judgmental. These kids say white people don't use spices and kill everyone and are colonialists and are evil. I say nothing wrong with how we cook and it is racist to say all white people are bad which is what they say. Then they yell at me and say I should say prejudice not racist. I do not see why this is okay. The word means the same things and even not you still prejudice are why is that better? Why argue that you are? Americans seem very judgmental and are rude. Why all have to be about skin color? And why it okay to say all white people something something but not all black people something something? Please forgive English, trying to write it more so I become good.” I don’t think it’s okay either, like, okay, flame me for this, but I, personally, as a white person (if we’re talking about skin color, about which I frankly don’t give a fuck about) don’t understand what the >privilege thing is about. What privilege? Currently living in Norway, I can’t express my opinion about neither any issues where black skin-colored people are victimizing themselves, nor about any issues where they’re actually being racist towards others, simply because I’m white. I was told, yesterday, by my own mother, that my thoughts are invalid because the white people have hurt blacks so much in the past. Slavery is a thing of the past. The Baltic and Balkan peoples were subjected to inhumane conditions more recently, several decades after slavery was abolished in the United States. The problem with America is that racism is imbedded into the nation’s white canvas like a red stroke of paint, ruining possibilities for the artist, it’s people. The mindset is passed on generation through generation, and it’s not stopping even though people are fighting against it, trying to clean that streak of paint off, trying to make the smudge less visible by paint thinner. I remember in English a few weeks ago we had a discussion about the Ted talk “why gender equality is good for everyone - men included” (https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_kimmel_why_gender_equality_is_good_for_everyone_men_included/transcript?language=en). I am still unable to understand why people victimize themselves. “And during one of our conversations, I witnessed an interaction that changed my life forever. It was a conversation between two women. One of the women was white, and one was black. And the white woman said -- this is going to sound very anachronistic now -- the white woman said, "All women face the same oppression as women. All women are similarly situated in patriarchy, and therefore all women have a kind of intuitive solidarity or sisterhood." And the black woman said, "I'm not so sure. Let me ask you a question." So the black woman says to the white woman, "When you wake up in the morning and you look in the mirror, what do you see?" And the white woman said, "I see a woman." And the black woman said, "You see, that's the problem for me. Because when I wake up in the morning and I look in the mirror," she said, "I see a black woman. To me, race is visible. But to you, race is invisible. You don't see it." And then she said something really startling. She said, "That's how privilege works. Privilege is invisible to those who have it." It is a luxury, I will say to the white people sitting in this room, not to have to think about race every split second of our lives. Privilege is invisible to those who have it.“ Explain to me, what is privilege? I do not feel like I have been privileged ever in my life. Is this all about skin color? Racism? I don’t fucking get it. Alright, some people are still very surprised when they see a black person in Riga, but that’s simply because we’re not used to seeing them as almost everyone in LV is white. I have no problem with black people, I literally don’t give a shit about your skin color, I have black people in my goddamn class. All I ask of you, is be yourself and realize the possibilities you have. You’re not your ancestors, you’re you, in the 21st century, trying to make a good life for yourself. Fucking behave like a decent human being and you will be respected by all the decent human beings around you.

[herrmit]

#idk idk something about the lines we draw to divide women being ultimately useless as they degrade both sides#something something bridging gaps between people with different interests#something something literal actual sisterhood and solidarity between women#i'm never one to defend tiktok i'm not even on there and it surprises me that princess jellyfish is being brought up#but like. what is this supposed to mean. to 'tiktokify' something#girlboss narrative what hello? what? you're throwing words at me and i don't know what they mean#but it's hilarious that this post comes off as something the sisterhood would have posted before all their character development#because this is a story about empowerment not through appearance- but that inner change is what beauty is made of#the development tsumiki and the other members of the sisterhood get is not that now they dress well#but that their often self-imposed isolation is not an antidote to os being ostracized in high school and having social anxiety#and that they've dehumanized other women in the process of defending themselves#and it's not that they have to change who they are of their interests but that they full accept themselves and can therefore#be comfort with who they are#and better navigate the world. and form friendships . and human connection and FUCK#like what are you talking about#sorry i know no one here follows me for princess jellyfish takes but that's what we're gonna get today#i think when you have a fandom / readership as small as pj (in the west at least) every bad take hits that much harder lmao#anyway. kuranosuke princess rights. we are all princesses. etc etc #“girl's girls are toxic” “not like other girls are toxic” what if we were all princesses idk. what if we loved each other

adding my tags here in case it wasn't loud enough.

the real takeaway here though is WATCH/ READ/EXPERIENCE PRINCESS JELLYFISH

not to start shit but. tell me you didn't understand princess jellyfish without telling me you didn't understand princess jellyfish