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My thoughts abt this are hewed to my thoughts abt systemic racism. It's not that the system is broken, it's that the system emboldens and promotes the fallacy of "genius" men and the women they desire and jack off to in the guise of muse. rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features… via @RollingStone
There is always a racial element never discussed when it comes to these high-profile men at the center of the #MeToo movement —their desires and muses center around young white women and girls who embody a purity that black women and girls are not perceived as embodying.
I remember reading Lupita Nyong’o's Op-Ed in the NYT abt her experience w Harvey, the chosen-ness of it that was layered throughout. The entire "What could this be? How could I get this lucky? How do I navigate this terrain as a black woman?" It resonated. nytimes.com/2017/10/19/opi…
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