Some Thoughts On Self Objectification

some thoughts on self objectification 

probably the worst take on this website is the “ugh those privileged cis gays” mentality, as if gay men aren’t one of the most persecuted groups in the world? and like, it absolutely comes from this mogai mentality that the more obscure your labels are, the more oppressed you are (and therefore the better/less problematic/more ‘pure’ you are as a person), and that’s why we end up with 14-year-old lgbt kids struggling to come up with super specific labels for every single facet of their identity in order to prove they’re worth something to older people who they look up to on here, and y’all need to stop

“The antidote to a gender-specific racial oppression that advances controlling images of deviant Black sexuality does not lie in embracing conservative politics of respectability that mimics the beliefs of those responsible for the sexually repressive culture in the first place.”

— from Black Sexual Politics by Patricia Hill Collins

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“Black bodies, the economic pivot of slave-plantation economy, were sexualized. Black women’s bodies evidenced an unruly sexuality, untamed and wild. Black male sexuality was to be feared as the hypersexualized stalker. These dominant constructions worked to erase indigenous (Lucayan, Carib and Arawark) sexualities. Indentured Indian femininity (in Trinidad and Tobago) was formulated as dread and desire, mysteriously wanton, inviting death and destruction, although it could also be domesticated.”

— M. Jacqui Alexander

“So much ritual sexualized torture of the black body indicates the intensity of both white hatred of black bodies and their longing to consume those bodies in a symbolic sexualized cannibalism.”

— from We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity by bell hooks