Here's the thing about the "moustache" and "har har she looks like a bloke" comments favoured by Mike Graham and his army of dingbats. The hairy brown woman trope is a way of denying femininity to women of colour, to make us an acceptable target for really vicious dehumanisation.
It's stupid, it's petty, and it's really pleasing to the world's most obnoxious people because they think they're slick. They think that because they've not said a slur out loud, that they've managed to avoid setting off anyone's racism detector.
They've got all the finesse of a 10 year old giggling at "See U Next Tuesday". And I suppose they hope that by wearing away at my physical self-esteem, I'm going to stop standing up for the values that they're implacably opposed to.
Which, spoiler alert, isn't going to happen.
Which, spoiler alert, isn't going to happen.
My sense of worth isn't based on whether or not angry misogynists on the internet think I'm feminine enough. Sorry not sorry!
