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Title: Black Men-Stop Contributing To The Transphobic Disrespecting Of Black Women
Post by: Butterfly on May 27, 2010, 05:04:51 PM
Black Men-Stop Contributing To The Transphobic Disrespecting Of Black Women
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
27 May, 2010


http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/black-men-stop-contributing-to.html (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/black-men-stop-contributing-to.html)


One of the things that really pisses me off in terms of the disrespect leveled at African-American women is how quickly Black men pile on.

It doesn't matter whether the Black woman in question is 5'2" or 6"2", if she isn't 'feminine enough' in the beholder's eyes, the transphobic comments freely flow from their mouths.

Ask Ciara, the Williams Sisters, writer Kola Boof, Wendy Williams and a distressingly long list of African-American ciswomen how fast the 'that's a man' shade gets deployed against them.