[Community member
Martha asked that the following be posted in full. She's responding to this crap -- not worksafe due to language --
here. I've added some links to back up Martha's points. Title was written by Martha.]
Martha: Vibe's
a sewer of ignorance. I saw "The Nappy Diatribe," "One man's
throat-chopping reportage" and you knew it was a man, didn't you? I
wanted to leave a comment objecting to the non-stop lies, so I
registered. I still can't leave a comment even after registering. It
shows me logged in. I considered sending them an e-mail but I figure
they'd blow it off.
So let me salute the LIARS at
Vibe for LYING and promoting HATRED OF WOMEN. This Black woman won't stand for it.
Who the hell told you that you were a journalist?
You're nothing but a LIAR who can't even do research before putting out your LIES.
Ignorance is an ugly think so you're obviously a very ugly man.
He wastes three paragraphs dissin' various rappers and showing off that his mouth is actually a gutter.
Then he gets to his big lies.
I'm
reminded of my mid-concert petulance this election season by the
deafening silence of all the feminist activists concerning the
treatment of Michelle Obama, especially considering how forcefully
vocal they were every time Hillary was the victim of sexism both real
and imagined. A few months ago you couldn't throw a rock without
hitting some scathing article by a pen-wielding woman concerning the
legitimate concerns about insensitive comments made by a few knuckle
dragging pundits, or some passionate supporter of womens rights arguing
their case on some garden variety cable news show. [. . .] I just knew
that if Obama became the Democratic Nominee that Michelle could count
on that same passion and unwavering support from those same feminist
activists who so forcefully had Hillary's back. Unfortunately, there
has been nothing but cricket sounds thus far, proverbial tumbleweeds if
you will.Let's deal with the LIES first and I'll just call the man "PIG" since he doesn't put his name to his garbage post.
Pig,
Feminist Wire Daily (of the Feminist Majority Foundation) did two items
on sexism against Hillary starting in January and ending in May.
They've done more than that on Michelle Obama this month alone. [C.I.:
Such as
here,
here, and
here.] Why don't you try reading, you stupid idiot? NOW has called out the sexism. [C.I.: Such as
here and
here.]
The Women's Media Center has called it out.
If
you're hearing "cricket sounds," it's because you're a SEXIST PIG who
doesn't pay any attention to women to begin with. You're a disgusting
piece of trash, posting lies to protect Barack Obama. I've seen this
game play out and you are played out, PIG. No one's buying it anymore.
Everyone's caught on that Barack got to where he is by using sexism. So
you can LIE and claim that Michelle got no support. You're a LIAR.
You're an IDIOT.
You're a FOOL.
And you're played out.
As
a Black woman who is a feminist, let me further add that Michelle Obama
doesn't deserve s**t from the feminist movement and I think they should
let her deal with whatever comes down all on her own. Gender doesn't
make someone a feminist.
Hillary Clinton is a feminist.
Feminists should have defended her. The reality was most were silent.
And the reason was because of THUGS like you. Slapping 'em down,
trashing 'em. Making them afraid to call your s**t out.
Get it, Two Cents, I ain't scared of your lying, thug ass.
I'll be damned if you're going to attack feminsim and think your hate's going to sell.
I'm
reminded yet again that one of my biggest problems as a Black woman is
the small but vocal segment of Black men who work overtime to hold a
sista down.
As usual, Black women are just supposed to shut up
and take this abuse. We're supposed to pretend that we're not women.
I'm not playing that game and I'm not selling out my gender for some
bi-racial man that's not even Black. I've had it with Hop on the
Bandwagon for Barack.
I've had it with women being disrespected
and dissed and trashed and slimed. I've had it with that coming from
some Black men. Kiss my ass,
Vibe, I've had it with you.
This is PIG oink-oinking some more:
Their
telling silence when it comes to defending Michelle is deafening, and
it is going to make it hard for me to reward them with my undivided
attention the next time they are addressing substantive issues on my
television screen. I'll be tempted to give them a spirited "Hell NO!"
as if I was asked a pretty pedestrian question during a lackluster
performance, and proceed to waive my middle finger in the air like I
just don't care.There hasn't been silence. There
should be. Michelle Obama is not a feminist. The feminist movement
needs to focus their energies on feminist issues. Barack got the
nomination by using sexism.
The feminist movement is not all
White but a number of the leaders are. I want to make it real clear to
them that they are not helping this Black woman by wasting energies to
defend Michelle so that Barack can get into the White House.
Not after he used sexism, not after he put those homophobes onstage in South Carolina.
The
feminist movement cannot educate or reach men like PIG. They won't
admit but they are sexists and they are brothas that will sleep with
White women and still be the first to trash White women. Which is why
PIG's trashing feminists now. To him, it must be a White plot by White
women. He really is that sick.
The feminist movement has let
feminists down. Continuing to defend Michelle lets feminism down. She's
not a feminist. She never defended Hillary. She added to it. I don't
give a damn whether she's becomes First Lady or not.
Glad you
got a job, PIG. Hope you don't have a wife and/or kids. If you do,
you'll no doubt be fired at some point when you tell a LIE about
something someone cares about and, let's face it, PIGS like you and
your employer go out of your way not to give a damn about the Black
women who get stuck holding the communities together. For that we get
called names. For that we get attacked. As
Betty so wisely put it
back in May, "When Bud Johnson writes or quotes a slam on Black women,
when he questions our Blackness, you better believe Black women have
every right to scream, 'Enough!' And we should. We're the ones holding
the Black community together. And the thanks we get for that is cheap
little smears. Our mothers, our grandmothers, our great-grandmothers
and on and on got the same thing as well. We haven't had the luxury of
'dropping out' of the larger culture to avoid discrimination. We've
faced discrimination in our communities, faced abuse in our own
families. We've overcome very real odds and still have a long, long way
to go. But we don't get thanked for that. Instead we get questioned.
It's tired, it's old (centuries old) and it needs to stop."
We're
all supposed to be Michelle -- the little woman behind the man. If we
did that, a lot of Black children would be starving because, let's get
honest, it's the Black mothers putting the food on the table in most
households. I'm real sorry that PIG's ego is so tiny because he's worth
so little but this Black woman isn't going to inflate his ego and make
him feel good.
He's a LIAR. He's an IDIOT. And I'm sick of
having to deal with this in my community. The feminist movement would
help me out by realizing that Michelle is not one, does not claim to be
one and needs to be left on her own. We're not electing a First Lady,
we're electing a president. She can live her life however she wants but
there's no need for the feminist movement to equate her with Hillary
who is a feminist and who was running for president.
That's
something PIG doesn't grasp. He thinks, "Oh, they're both women!" One's
a feminist, one's not. One was running for president. It's a whole
other level and until the feminist movement grasps that, I get stuck
having to live with this crap. The two women are not the same.
To
PIG, it's all the same because he reduces us to nothing but vaginas
though I doubt he'd use that term. Feminists know better. It's time
they demonstrated it.
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