“White gay men are the dominant demographic within the LGBT community,” the U.K.’s National Union of Students (NUS) determined at a meeting earlier this week, “and they benefit from both white privilege and male privilege.”
“White gay men often assert that they are ‘strong black women’ or have an ‘inner black woman,'” NUS continued, calling such behavior “unacceptable” and saying it “must be addressed.”
Therefore, it was officially decided, gay white men may no longer act like black women.
According to its website, NUS is a group dedicated to making “a real difference to the lives of students.” The organization consists of 600 student union group across the U.K., representing the interests of more than seven million students.
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NUS passed a motion forbidding gay men from emulating “the mannerisms, language (particularly AAVE- African American Vernacular English) and phrases that can be attributed to black women.”
A second motion passed was the banning gay men from dressing in drag as it could be offensive to trans women. (Queer students who want to cross-dress in their everyday lives as a mode of self-expression, however, are exempt from this rule, NUS said.)
Lastly, the group announced on Twitter this week: “Some delegates are requesting that we move to jazz hands rather than clapping as it’s triggering anxiety. Please be mindful!”
That’s right, clapping is also forbidden by the group.
A NUS spokeswoman told Gay Star News, “We’re a democratic society, and if members voted for it, these are our policies.”
Any white gay man caught breaking these rules will be sentenced to death before a firing squad.
Just kidding.
It’s not clear what the penalties will be or even how they will be enforced. That seems to be beside the point anyway. NUS said its primary goal in instituting these new totalitarian rules is to “raise awareness.” To itself, no doubt.
Derf Smith
WhatEV!!!!
Cam
Typical, it isn’t very different over here. When a right wing governor in Kansas gets rid of a state rule protecting gay employees, Trans activists started attacking gays and lesbians saying that if they hadn’t pushed for that rule then this wouldn’t have happened.
Yes, it’s not the right wing bigots fault, it’s the lesbians and gays fault for wanting workplace protections.
Or when New york State legalized same sex marriage, Trans activists used it as an excuse to attack LGB’s for fighting for marriage, not even sitting back for one day fro their attacks against them on a celebratory day.
Same here, these students aren’t interested in fighting ACTUAL enemies, it’s far more easy to attack a marginalized group then to actually worry about things like anti-LGBT violence, bigotry, or how LGBT’s are targeted in neighborhoods with anti-gay religious groups.
Tommy O'Brien
Idiots
Raúl Hernández
Brace yourselves for all the upcoming bitching about this article.
Yors Truly
Giovanni de Lesseps
Shaun Ehlers
Bye Felicia!
DarSco
You know what people, we are all people, humans. Black, white, gay, straight, smart and stoopid. we are all people. Look at the stereotypes over the years – Irish people are very religious, like to drink, dance, and are VERY good boxers! Black people do the same shyt! same stereotype!
President Obama has something in common with all other Presidents, Their mothers were white! Gabourey Sidibe (precious) has Blond hair so does Paris Hilton. Every other dude has their azz hanging out their pants,you can see it in South Central LA and in Oslo Norway lol.
Jay J Villeneuve
Ugh….. lame…like gag me with a plate.
Now I have to back to my valley girl routine.
No one owns that….right?
Israel Ramon
Fvk847
or latino…(see 22 jump street)
lolwut
Just to be clear this was the NUS Women Conference that passed this. It’s a gathering of feminist students to pass resolutions on any perceived threat to women they can come up with.
The NUS is a pretty useless body. It’s resolutions mean nothing and are not binding on any of their members. Most Unis join the NUS only to get access to the NUS Discount Card, which gets some pretty nice deals at UK retailers. No one really cares about anything else they do, which is why they get away with things like this.
Mario Martinez
I will do as I please.
NJjoe
Gay men assert themselves as strong black women? Seriously? Funny, the strong black women I know don’t behave in the manner of snapping and finger swaying. Ohhhhkaaay!
Scott Hummel
1 seems like a stereotype. 2 what she knows is probably from the in living color skits. 3. they are urban actions, not belonging to race. 4. why gay men may benefit from “male privilege” we also lose because many “males” do not view us as “men.” 4. So what if, no pun intended, “Dark Lady” by Cher comes on at happy hour? we should sit on our hands and not clap? that is preposterous.
John M. Bentley II
It may just be me, but all their mannerisms were stolen from effeminate gay men. So, who’s stealing from whom?
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Tumblrfication
Ralph Vendegna
NUS Go stick it where the Sun Don’t Shine. You have no authority to tell Gay Men how to act or what to wear. If a Gay Man wants to walk and talk like an African American Woman that is his choice NOT yours.
Daniel Bujes
Yes, being fired and evicted and refused medical treatment and in some countries killed is totally white male privilege
Nyroy Dixon
I don’t think she has any right to say this and also John m, it is just you! Nobody stole anything like that from gay men at all!
Ron Parsons
I think it was them that stole it from the 1950-60 queens! ð???
Steven Carter
Bitch please, I’m a strong independent black woman & ain’t nobody tellin me how to act!
Roy B Hernandez
Black women need to stop acting like me…
Adrian Michael Ornelas
I don’t even fucking believe in the concept of privilege, coming from a gay latino which I guess is supposed to make me “oppressed” somehow by the white straight men of the world lmao…
Allie Pocket
#gurlbye
ingyaom
Was this a joke? No one’s going to take it seriously, anyway.
Judith Wind
Hshaha
Carlisle Hallsted
This is absolutely absurd!!
Antony Nguyen
Trippin lol
Creig Stearne
You just can’t fix stupid
Taylor Bosnick
All of you are idiots. If you don’t understand privilege it’s because you REFUSE to understand it. Stop acting like black women who are killed, raped and harmed every day. Boo fucking who, you can’t be an asshole anymore. You are the problem with white gay America
Edison Thomas
No more “OH NO BOO BOOS YOUS GOTS TO GO” *double hand clap*
Dustin Stapleton
This whole thing sounds stupid. “You can be and act however you want unless you act like this, or do this, or this.”
Guess they took the whole one step forward, two steps back thing a little too seriously.
Gerald Cummings II
#stupid
Robert Mckelroy
Carlo Perez
Nicholas Felix
Andrew Werling
Actually black women should stop acting that way too. It’s fake. How about real, unaffected communication?
Alex Anderson
NUS … The same organisation that refused to condemn ISIS because it’s “islamophobic”… They are so embarassing .
Caylin Joey Gerhardt
Jorge Gonzalez
Okurrrrrr?!?!?
Jakk Bjarkarson
Stupid cunts 🙁
Leopold Carrillo Martinez
Leopold Carrillo Martinez
Bitch Plz …. Look in the mirror an worry bout ur self
lightlab
This is… Wow. Okay.
On the one hand, I respect the point that different groups face different forms of discrimination and form different culture accordingly. I am white, cisgender male and gay. I don’t face the same prejudices as other people who can’t claim that. For example, I don’t get followed around stores or get sexual harassment walking down the street. On the flip side, other than people who are transgender, most people don’t have to worry about coming out as a minority and the constant gauging of personal safety every single time like I do. If the point was ‘be more respectful and thoughtful about assuming that all groups have the same experience,’ I would be totally on board.
On the other hand, this sort of heavy handed proclamation is all kinds of inappropriate. Instead of encouraging a dialogue, they’re making a unilateral decision. Who gets to decide what is and isn’t appropriate? Where’s the line between joking among empathetic friends and genuinely offending someone? I’m not even going to get into the whole drag discussion, which is a whole topic that they seem blithely step into without much consideration or research.
Alexander O'dayy
I come from a very diverse background and a very diverse family so I can get both sides.. I do believe that on the behalf of black women it’s more offensive because you’re mocking a stereotype of what you believe them to be, what you see on TV… Most of the bleach blonde blue-eyed suburban caucasian men that mock these women have no idea the struggle of a real independent strong black woman they have no idea of what it feels like to be a black woman.. But I mean then again as someone who lives the life of a African American gay man I guess I’ve come to learn that it’s okay for us as gay men to cry when we feel mocked, stereotyped or when things are not going our way.. but as a African American I should never complain about anything!! But anyways love guys #equalityforall #womensrights #loveconquersall ð??ð??ð???ð???
Vigo Beninger
Jesse Malin Ricardo Rodriguez lol
Petro Dance
Larry Sanders
Bye, Felicia!! Aaaaaaahahahaha!!!!
1copaseticsoul
Ha!!!! I love it. I say let them keep attempting to imitate the sistas… It’s hilarious to me. They have no idea how silly and foolish they look and sound lolol Love this lolol
Nelson Kaiowá
I think stereotyping black women is worse, actually.
Jordan Walker
Isn’t it kinda prejudice to say acting like black woman as if all black woman act the same ? Lol
Robbie Martinez
Oh hell no!!! You aint gon tell me how to act boo boo!!
Kisha Ann
Thanks boo tell it like it is…..be who u are and love who u are Alexander O’dayy
Jay Willard Abbit
Oh no she di-int! On no she di-int! That’s it! Imma taking off my rings naw. Yeah, ya betta run!
Jacob Smiley
I’ll act how I feel without anyone telling me it’s right or wrong. Come on 2015.
chaddyboy6
So you mean that i am privileged in the gay world because I am white and male. When will this madness ever end? The rest of what the articulating is just as idiotic! Heaven help us!
Cseanr
Our society is getting more & more messed up !!!!
Cam
@Taylor Bosnick: said….
“All of you are idiots. If you don’t understand privilege it’s because you REFUSE to understand it. Stop acting like black women who are killed, raped and harmed every day. Boo fucking who, you can’t be an asshole anymore. You are the problem with white gay America”
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Oh please, go f*ck yourself. Are you going to sit here and play the victim game? Whose more of a victim? Do we have a balanced scale? So then should black women not be allowed to straighten there hair because it MIGHT look like Native Americans and they are higher up on the victim scale? Or should black women not be allowed to wear sunglasses because that could be offensive to blind people and they are higher up on the victim scale?
Yes, basically I’m calling you an idiot. Oh, and one other thing, in your little schoolboy rant that you forgot to do was point out how any of thise behavior is in any way harmful to anybody. Show me the list of black women who were complaining about gays.
Or was this, as it usually is, a group of white trans folks, wymen, and others who in their morass of white feminist guilt decided to speak up for a group that never asked them to about something that that other group doesn’t care about.
Justin Brown
Tonya Stucker Brown
Robert Corvo
If black women can explain why THEY act like that and why they “own” it only then will I consider it!
Don Rowe
Trust me when I say, I’m a white gay man, and I have absolutely NO desire to imitate, mirror, or mimic a black woman. I cannot fathom wanting to follow the example of, or pattern myself after a black woman. A black woman? Really?
DonovanS28
This article is stupid, and everyone is stupid for commenting……. including myself. I can’t believe I just joined the rest of you in wasting this much time -_-
Juan M Brosales
People who don’t believe in privilege benefit from it
Jacob Owen Burger
Sarah Elfinesh Kirby were we not just talking about this lol
Paco
I won’t argue that many white gay men do have access to white, male privilege. But for them to access that privilege, they usually have to be in a prison known as the closet. Homophobia isn’t based on skin color, and out gay males are frequently targeted for abuse and denied rights.
I agree with others here. This is stupid.
Man Ny
Kirsten Daniels
Bubbleandsqueal
Ow now vey dit’int! (Yelped in a Mockney-AAVE screech).
CCTR
@Juan M Brosales: So very true!
CCTR
@Paco: We can all agree that homophobia isn’t based on skin color, but white male privilege is based on being white and male. Whether one is in the closet or out, sexual orientation is usually not as apparent as being white and male.
This does seem very stupid, and obviously unenforceable but if it is to raise awareness…not sure what the significance is, but maybe it will lead to a conversation and realization of some importance.
Eric Zelno
How stupid
Blackceo
@Paco:
Not necessarily. One of my favorite scenes from Queer as Folk was when Melanie was representing Brian in some lawsuit I think for harrassment and he made some idiotic comment as Brian often did and her response was something like oh please u can suck all the dick u want and u will still have it better than any woman or person of color.
Some of the comments in here are so full of fail. The part about benefitting fro. White privilege and male privilege is true for white gay males. If I can acknowledge that I benefit and have privilege as a fair skinned man of color I don’t know why lots of white gay males can’t. Now that is a bye Felicia! !!
Paco
@Blackceo: I wasn’t necessarily thinking of the gay men that can pass as straight like Brian can. I was thinking of the gay males that cannot successfully hide the fact that they may be gay. And like I said before, I won’t argue about the existence of white male privilege. I know it exists, and while many have access to the white part of that privilege, many are denied access to the male part of it because they are viewed as less than male.
Cam
@Blackceo:
The comment wasn’t that a white gay man has the benefit of being white, the comment was that any white gay man is always better off than any black woman.
In that it can be argued that in multiple states it is still legal to fire LGBT’s, it is illegal in some states for LGBT’s to adopt, It is NOT legal for LGBT’s to marry in multiple states. And black women do not face the threat of being thrown out of their homes if their families find out that they are black.
Nobody is saying that anybody has it easy, and absolutely a white gay guy trying to flag down a cab in Chicago has it easier, but lets all come down off of our respective little stages of indignation and get real.
Edgar Marroquin
Oh hell no!
Maximillian Jasper Goldberg
Gurl bye
Blackceo
@Paco:
Ok yes I agree with that.
@Cam:
Ok yes “any” white gay male doesn’t necessarily have it easier when it comes to those forms of institutionalized discrimination policies. That is correct.
asa1973
The measure is totally ridiculous and laughable. However, I do love to see when white gay men get so indignant when they are called out on their appropriation. Makes me giggle. And what sound-minded historian would ever believe that black women picked up the head-rolling, finger snapping behavior from Stonewallers? Just acknowledge your privilege and deal with it. You’ll come across as less whiny.
Tijuana Starstinkle
Oh lort
lykeitiz
Chile, please! Ain’t no Ho gonna tell me what dress to wear, Okaaaayyy?
Brian Bigham-Hellums
Phuq dat, mother phuqur!
NG22
@Blackceo: You, CCTR, and Juan M Brosales make some interesting points. Intersectionality is not part of the experience of white gay men. White gay men must contend with the societal effects of their sexual orientation. Black women must contend with the effects of their race and gender. Black gay men (or other gay men of color) must contend with the societal effects of race and sexual orientation.
Those with intersectional backgrounds have far more credibility on this topic than those without them. In earlier comments, some readers have minimized the complications that arise from blackness in an effort to comparatively maximize the complications that arise from homosexuality.
To be clear, it is not easy to be gay in the United States. Furthermore, there are legal statutes in place which limit the freedoms of the LGBT community. This is unconscionable, and antithetical to the letter and spirit of the American constitution. It is important that individuals and advocacy groups continue to fight the good fight until gay Americans have equal protection under the law.
But let’s not pretend that the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act have guaranteed equal treatment in the lived experiences of all black Americans. To believe this is to be ignorant. Attempts to mansplain to black Americans that the issues they face are minor are offensive.
The Supreme Court ruled this week that a voter redistricting plan in Alabama improperly used racial demographics to gerrymander districts. In other words, the state legislature packed all black voters into one district so the black electorate would have no political power in other districts. This kind of gerrymandering has been found in other states since the 2010 census.
On the subject of voting rights, part of the voting rights act was struck down by the SCOTUS — accelerating the push by state lawmakers around the country to put barriers between black people and the polls. For instance, eliminating early voting, Sunday voting (when black churches take members to vote), and mandating forms of ID that black people are less likely to have. This isn’t to mention the fewer voting machines and resources black polling places in the south had during the 2014 midterm election.
Black people continue to face housing discrimination. It’s not just after WWII when there were common rules against letting blacks move into white neighborhoods. Housing discrimination lawsuits happen all the time. Many studies have also found that racialized job discrimination exists. When there are two equally-qualified candidates for a job, the black candidate is less likely to get it than the white candidate.
Finally, I’ll mention the justice system. We’ve seen before our eyes the unequal application of police force and even sentencing guidelines.
So no, when people complain about systematic racism, they’re not referring to failed attempts to hail a cab.
@Cam: http://time.com/2969951/dear-white-gays-stop-stealing-black-female-culture/
Irish Ryan
?????????????? What does this mean???
Jimmy Lee
Bitch please. I ain’t been stunting since 1982.
Blackceo
@NG22:
Get out of my head!!!! Yes…all the things I wanted to say but felt like I’ve said them ad nauseum and just wasn’t going to be bothered. But yes, intersectionality is often overlooked, or did we not learn that from Patricia Arquette’s Oscar speech.
Thanks NG22 for your commentary
Darren Fraser
This is a pack of bullshit ppl have many mannerisms maybe black women should start acting like straight white men then
Magnus
Apparently these ladies have way too much time on their hands to make up nonsense. For one how are gay men the MOST PRIVILEGED of LGBT? Actually I would say Lesbians are the most privileged of LGBT as male heterosexual homophobes are less likely to harass them as they think “dude that’s hot”. Haven’t they ever seen that puerile t-shirt that says something like “I support same-sex marriage only if its two women”? So their premise that gay men are the most privileged is ridiculous. I feel their inane meanderings and votes are offensive as they are underestimating lesbian privilege and ignoring bigotry that male homosexuals experience because they’re male, and thus I ask they shut down because their organization is offensive to my sensibilities, (I’m joking, but really they need to get over this pretentious dribble). What a bunch of malarkey, if a business had any good sense it would remove the discount this group supposedly gets as one poster suggests.
Loyd Hawkins
How does one act like a black woman? Doesn’t that seem to indicate some stereotype that has all black women acting just alike?
Magnus
Also do these ladies not know that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. This is just LOOKING for things to be upset about. When you start looking for things to be upset about you know you’re wasting your time, and just desperately looking to be offended. I’m sorry bu the world has far more pressing matters than gay men acting like black women. These ladies all need a trip down to the 3rd world for a wake up call. This organization is absolutely disgusting.
Martyn Valenzuela
Oh, no she dih-un!…
asa1973
@Magnus: Spoken like a true person in denial of his white male privilege. Look, I enjoy privileges as well. As a man, an American, an able-bodied person, a tall person, etc., etc. My privileges are endless even though my intersecting blackness and gayness exist. Just acknowledge that your privileges exist as well.
Roberson Randy
I think some black women need to stop acting and biting the looks and style of Transsexuals.
Debra Todd
Really? what a crock of crap.
Nick Tripoli
Gary Demeterice James Cedric Lawson
SteveDenver
NIS: Talk to the hand, gurrrl. Talk to the hand.
Steve Tabárez
Good. As a Mexican, I hate cultural appropriation or the fairer guys thinking I want them to try being me…It’s worse when they want to be like women of my culture…
Billy Hall
Jody Castillo
oooooo child. what next black women can’t wear blonde wigs. Grrrl it’s about to get real parody wars up in here.
Steven Michael Verbera
RET TA GO GIRL!
Gregory H. Wilson
Are you sure it’s not black women acting like gay men? Js
Raymond Houston Bridges
I dream of a world where anyone can wear a skirt just because they have nice looking legs.
hellogorgeous
@chaddyboy6: How is it madness to assume that because you’re white and male, you receive privilege. It’s “madness” that you don’t understand privilege. If you have two working legs, you have privilege and you should acknowledge that. It doesn’t matter if it’s in the gay world, straight world, trans world, etc. — as long as you’re on Earth, being white and male gives you an advantage in life. That’s nothing to be ashamed of; it just is what it is.
NG22
@Blackceo: You’re welcome, boo boo.
hellogorgeous
@Loyd Hawkins: Exhibit A:
Steven Carter
“Bitch please, I’m a strong independent black woman & ain’t nobody tellin me how to act!”
DuMaurier
Given that I was snickering non-stop through the article and my eyes were on auto-roll, the following is really just for the purpose of opening up some reflexively reactive minds: Do we at least acknowledge that there are times when mimicking the speech and mannerisms associated with a certain group (gee, maybe even gay men???) can justly be regarded as offensive? Would we be so contemptuous if this group’s target was frat boys acting like, say, Richard Simmons for some yucks?
Jared A Smith
When you say “white gay males often assert they are strong, black women or have an inner black woman… Do you have data for that because I have never ever felt that I have an inner black woman. I’m not even sure what that means. Nor have I ever heard any gay male I know assert that they are a black woman with any seriousness. So I’m wondering if maybe this article is just based on a stupid amount of conjecture and stereotypes of both groups…
Caoimhin Mikael Lycke
Yeah, it’s ghetto anyway!
Royston Hunget
I’m just going to be myself. ok with you?
Merv
Competing in the Oppression Olympics is for fools. Nobody’s oppression is the same, and people who are not part of the group make a lot of false assumptions because the type of oppression they face is not exactly the same as what others face. What is the similar is the feeling people experience when they’re being oppressed. That’s the commonality we should concentrate on, not this or that particular aspect of oppression.
These NUS folks are kooks. All you have to do to see that is think about their request that people use jazz hands instead of applause. Nobody could possibly take that suggestion seriously.
Mark Pointon
Alex Paris
Clapping? Who do these bitches think they are, Isis?
Gardner Imasuperhero Pourcio
We learnt it from them, like uh ya know…
VampDC
Fuck this. More people telling other people how they can and can not act.
Act however the fuck you want.
Merv
@Alex Paris: It’s funny you should mention ISIS. While the NUS seems to have an opinion on everything, including drag, gay people saying “girlfriend”, and the danger posed by clapping, they have no opinion on ISIS. They actually rejected a resolution condemning ISIS because, as another Alex pointed out above, they thought criticizing them was Islamophobic. You can’t make this sh*t up.
http://tab.co.uk/2014/10/14/nus-refuses-to-condemn-terrorists-because-its-islamophobic/
hellogorgeous
@VampDC: Yes…but only to a certain extent. If people are reducing you to a stereotype, mocking and making fun of you and then appropriating your culture, it’s not uncalled for to ask them to stop, or at least inform them that it’s hurtful.
Boy L Joey
i never acted like that.. its just disgusting, in my opinion.
Lee Friend Svensson
CCTR
@NG22: Yes, it’s really about acknowledgment and awareness. Thanks for providing that article link!
DarkZephyr
You won’t ever catch me “acting like a black woman”, thank you very much. I don’t see a lot of it but if that really happens, I can understand why an American black woman might find it offensive (personally I don’t know what the fuck some group in the UK thinks they know about African American women but that’s just me). I am sure I will get flack for this, but if a white guy walks up to a black woman and starts acting like a parody of a black woman and claims that he IS a black woman, that is offensive. Mocking people is offensive, period, and the offense doesn’t need to be spiritualized or politicized to justify it. And I truly don’t see why people feel the need to behave in this way. I personally LOATH when someone parodies a gay male and thinks that’s cute. Why should black women not have the right to be offended when they are parodied? Let’s respect each other here, people. As for what the NUS is doing, that is a bit over the top, but I am more concerned with the issue itself of gay men pretending to be black women. To me this is an issue of human beings respecting or not respecting each other, period.
William Thomas Bramlett II
inbama
What would really be lovely would be to hear gay men stop speaking like transgender activists.
blasted
The pure ignorance of some of these comments are astounding. I literally can not believe the reactions that I have been reading from some of these people. There is no need to quote them, because it’s not even worth it.
A lot of people talk about the fractures within the lgbtqi community, Kerry Washington so eloquently spoke about it in her Glaad speech. And it’s real, People are so caught up in their own struggles they do not sympathize or empathize with others, this is especially true for a lot of, not all Cis Gay White Males. There is an undeniable contention in the gay community with every other sub group of the culture. Lesbians, Bisexuals, Trans and intersex people. Gay men are not very inclusive in my experiences dealing with them, and the “supposed” appropriation of black women’s mannerisms isn’t anything new, and it’s pretty undeniable. Just watch an episode of Rupaul’s Drag race “Ohhhh KAAAAYYY!” I say “supposed” because theses are stereotypes and perceptions that have been pushed and fed over decades upon decades of systematic, and purposeful racism. It doesn’t have to be an accurate representations of who black women are, it’s just the simple fact that ignorant people will believe this is how black woman act, which doesn’t help their struggle.
One person mentioned the straightening of black Women’s hair. Last I checked Straight Long hair is pretty much every culture sign of beauty, due to colonialism European standard of beauty are the standard all over the world, the funny thing is that even white women can’t live up to that standard of beauty, yea they wear weaves and extension just like their black counterparts, but that would never be something that would be brought up to attempt to highlight their flaws like you did black women. The very idea that white women don’t straighten their hair is ridiculous. So let me get this straight, cis heterosexual white males want white women to be the standard but when black women start emulating that standard,to fit in better into society something is wrong? The over all messages in media don’t agree with you sir, it’s asking that black woman do assimilate to be acceptable, which is part of her struggle that you don’t care to understand.
The Lovely Lavern Cox had a great speech about intersectional lived experiences in her last year’s Trans 100 speech. The reality is that women of color are at the low end of the totem pole in heterosexual and homosexual society. At the very least a man of color still has male privilege you generally aren’t victimize simply for being a man, but a woman of color, who may be lesbian, or trans, god forbid they be anything other than christian, being a woman you’re automatically perceived as lesser in our society and many others all over the world. A person of color even more so, where there was a glass ceiling before you, now there are road blocks, you live an alternative lifestyle, those road blocks have turned in to a canyon. I don’t think the article said anywhere that Gay white males don’t struggle, of course you struggle, everyone does. However your struggle is completely different, and the biggest failure is you can’t empathize with those who have it harder than you, instead you do the normal thing your heterosexual counterparts do, you go on the offensive, you start attacking. “How dare people bring up my privilege and try to use it against me.” That’s what you’re really saying with your comments. The Problem is you start attacking the wrong people, instead of taking a more in-dept look at yourself, and the bigger issue here.
You clearly have the internet, how about you do some research, Jeez this is so disappointing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruv8As-_CMg
martinbakman
https://youtu.be/VS4X5_-OAE8
Saint Law
Where did all these noobz come from? Has Kweerty been on a recruitment drive?
Franklin
I think the problem with discussing privilege is that people tend to think of it as someone being given something they didn’t earn, which evokes feelings of guilt, and that’s not a good thing. A more accurate way to think of it, would be that white male privilege gives you the privilege not to have to think about your race or gender when making most decisions in life. As a white gay male, provided that you can pass for straight, there are very few areas that you do not have access to in this country. When gay white men apply for jobs, no one can see their sexuality on their resume. There are, however, multiple studies that have demonstrated how resumes with ethnic sounding names, or where the applicant has indicated their race as black, have far fewer call backs. Also, while it’s true that you can still be fired in a lot of states simply for being gay, keep in mind that while employed, if you’re a white and male you still will make 22% more than a white woman, and 36% more then a black woman on average. Finally, keep in mind that way before we even considered the possibility of having a half-black President of the United states, we have potentially also had had two gay Presidents, as well as several very powerful gay senators, congressmen, actors, and businessmen. Taking all this into consideration, I can see why gay white males may get a little bit of side eye from women, and in particular black women, when talking about oppression. As far appropriating the whole sassy black female attitude, I think the main rub is that it appears that most of these guys are basically making caricatures of black women, and probably have little if any contact with black people.
OzJosh
Fine. Now how do we stop black women from behaving like haughty judgemental harridans that cry out for parody?
Trevor McGee
Didn’t this get covered, like 10 months ago?
Franklin
@OzJosh: I think they’ll stop doing that right around the time gay men stop doing the same. Deal?
Steve Quinlan
This disturbs me.
Joseph Watkins
Thank fucking God we don’t need anymore negros
AxelDC
Don’t flatter yourself, honey.
Stevie Gonzales
Andrew Jeff Hernandez
Cam
@blasted:
Enough already. If for ONE year the trans community spent more time attacking right wing bigots, then they did attacking LGB’s I would believe that they had not set themselves up as apparently an enemy of gay people.
I find it funny that they do not want to be labeled with any terms created by outside groups for themselves and yet do not see the irony in calling anybody they have haven’t included in their group as “Cis”. Guess what, that is a label imposed on others by an outside group.
As for the rest of this, what I notice is that this was not a group of Black women. This was, once again, an outside group arrogantly assuming control and saying that they had the right to speak for another group (Black Women). In that they are being the perfect little colonialists. Way to mimic the patriarchy that they purport to hate.
Robert Young
Lol
Tackle
I’m surprised that so many cannot see that this is a joke
But @blasted: Excellent post.
@Franklin: Good info and well put.
Tackle
@Don Rowe: Trust me when I say, I’m a Black gay man, and I have absolutely NO desire to imitate, mirror or mimic a beat, broke-down, cheap looking Santa Claus. I cannot fathom wanting to follow the example of, or pattern myself after an old, beat, broke-down, cheap looking Santa.
Santa Claus? Really?
@Joseph Watkins: And who the fuck needs you. Do the LGBTQ community a favor. Go jump off a cliff…
Don Bonilla
Kenn
Patrick Wherehave Ubeen
It’s funny, tell a cis white male that they shouldn’t do anything and they get up in arms. Anything from not reproducing a performance of a stereotype which is hurtful in that it removes agency from a particular group to not saying the ‘n-word’. Cis white hetrosexuals and homosexuals in large numbers act the same way. this just a small part of the systemic racism, deliberate and non deliberately reproduced, within the “gay community” that has some minority queers having to make a choice, ‘my race or my sexuality?’
However, I disagree with the drag thing. One of the critiques of feminist thought is, not criticisms, that it is stuck within the male-female dyad and conceptualizes things from that starting point. That is why, using Guffman’s understanding of social performance, men dressed as womawomen are seen as a parody. However, using gender studies and a postmodernist reading of drag and towards gender it is actually a attack on gender. Through its carefully crafted construction of a female performance. I mean this of course in the Judith Butler sense. One may argue that these are the same acts. They aren’t, saying that you have a sassy black woman inside od you is inherently reductive, because black women are more than that. opps, that sounded like it belonged on the duck of minerva not Facebook.
Dakotahgeo
NUS and the UK get nuttier every day. To be expected.
Captain Obvious
When the comments are just as ignorant if not more ignorant than original ignorant comments in the article…
Rosalynn D'Angela
black women need not act like gay men
DarkZephyr
@Patrick Wherehave Ubeen: “It’s funny, tell a cis white male that they shouldn’t do anything and they get up in arms.”
You do realize that you just made a r*cist comment, right?
Paco
So what about the people who are physically unable to do “Jazz hands” when it is time to show an outward expression of approval? The “Jazz hands” rule isn’t very inclusive.
Magnus
@asa1973: Ok, you need to stop being so presumptuous as I never indicated my race in my comments. Also gay men really don’t have that much privilege when compared to lesbians. And are you implying that the world does not have more pressing issues than gay men acting like black women? Are you suggesting poverty and hunger take a back seat to it? And since when can someone own a type of behavior or mannerisms, that’s as ridiculous as a gay person calling metrosexuals bigots. Stop making controversy where there is none, and stop acting like you’re some authority on privilege and everyone must cede to you and your expertise. I’ve taken classes in privilege, and I’ve experienced bigotry, and I don’t need you lecturing me on how I should think or act. Stop trying to be the thought police and essentially dismissing people as “typical white male”. You’re being obnoxious in not only your presumptions but your assertions. Are you an attention queen or something? In other words I really don’t care what you think on this subject.
Curty
Whole topic is absurd and just proves the legitimacy of some steroetypes of some black women and gay men. Bad enough, they attacked white gay men. Such racism is projected to everyone it seems these days. Smh
Cam
@Patrick Wherehave Ubeen: said… “It’s funny, tell a cis white male that they shouldn’t do anything and they get up in arms.”
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Cis is a term imposed on a group by outsiders, therefore in keeping with their own views on the subject it is a slur.
Way to be BOTH rac-ist and insensitive in the same post.
Bauhaus
Good grief, has NUS no cultural familiarity with camp?
BlaqueBoiXIII
QUEERTY only does two types of stories about Black bodies: 1) they sexualize them; 2) comment on their homophobia.
Johnathan-Perry O'Brien
I think they do a awesome job , let them be themselves
Nicholas Cornell
This is ignorant. Forbidding gay men from dressing in drag? That’s denying a form of gender expression to an entire group of people just based on the fact that it may be construed as offensive to a minority group? Disappointing for sure.
Jim Messenger
You aint man enough to stop us sister.
Magnus
Europe is surpassing political correctness at this point, this is just utter lunacy.
hellogorgeous
@Magnus: Why are you so defensive about this issue; who’s attacking you? Why can’t you simply acknowledge that cultural appropriation and racism exist and are legitimate problems? For someone who’s so concerned about “more pressing issues,” like world hunger, why do you keep going on about lesbians having more privilege than gay men? That’s an arbitrary fight and a dead horse of an argument because the answer is relative, and there will never be a consensus. Also, what does that have to do with anything, in the context of this conversation?!
In response to your alleged qualifications, I’m sure you slept through all of your classes on privilege because otherwise, you wouldn’t be so out of touch, and you’d know that privilege is not something to be ashamed of or defensive about. Any minority will tell you that “imitation is [NOT] the sincerest form of flattery,” as you so moronically and minimizingly put it. By your logic, black people should revel in pride over The Birth of a Nation (1915) and minstrel shows and all that other great stuff, right? Based on your ignorant commentary, you really don’t understand racism, privilege, oppression or human decency. If someone tells you that your behavior is hurtful and disrespectful, you don’t attack them or minimize their conflict or turn the tables and victimize yourself, you apologize and stop. Be mature and grow up!
Danny Adams II
I wish people would stop telling other people about how they act.
CCTR
@Joseph Watkins: ouch!
Merv
It’s hilarious that a few people here are so oblivious that they are eager to jump to the defense of an organization that thinks that clapping is a tool of the patriarchy and that it’s too controversial to condemn ISIS cutting innocent people’s heads off. There’s no quicker way to make people think you’re a kook.
Realitycheck
@NJjoe:
I agree and I never heard a gay man say that either, who are these people?? LOL
Captain Obvious
There are no race issues in the gay community, we’re all very friendly to each other, and have never been segregated.
I’ve never heard white gay men mocking black women or black gay men. That would never happen, ever.
DarkZephyr
@Captain Obvious: Yeah and you never bitch about white gay men on a regular basis.
rcblue73
OMG! NUS needs to contact ISIS and have them put a fatwa on Tyler Oakley. You know, death to Tyler Oakley! — or some other lunacy.
Grant Baldwin
Stop with claiming it is how African American women act. It how some people of all races act while living in an intercity. Not all inner city residents behave like that. I grew up in wealthier suburbs and lived in the worst part of urban decay and get me going and you will see head bobbing, arms on hips, and a chorus of No, I don’t think so coming out of my mouth. I am a white gay male not an African American woman and do not claim to be such. As with many things, behavior is location, location, location and more often than not wanna bes
Magnus
@hellogorgeous: Oh boy, another presumptuous pretentious anon, who feels the need to school me. If I slept through my courses I wouldn’t have aced them genius. “If someone tells you that your behavior is hurtful and disrespectful, you don’t attack them or minimize their conflict or turn the tables and victimize yourself, you apologize and stop. ” Uhh no, because then ANYONE can claim to be offended over nonsensical things, and we would all have to just take their word for it, follow the rules they put into place no matter how unreasonable, and bend to their will as they are less privileged than we are, give me a break. Where do you draw the line on this? should there not be reasoning behind an argument other than “I’m historically lower on the pole than you are so you have to do as I say.”
What you’re setting up is an environment where the lowest on the totem pole can say whatever he or she wishes without any argument, otherwise that person is being defensive or oppressive. Instead we should just bend to the will of those who would censor us. Let me let you in on a little secret, there’s hardly anything out there that won’t offend somebody, from drinking alcohol to certain tv shows, just because someone is overly-sensitive doesn’t mean we should hush up and just obey them. If someone find a book offensive should we censor it and ban it?
Also the majority of the content of my comments to this article have to do with lesbians and gay men not black people. And why are lesbians relevant you ask, well maybe if you read the article in its entirety you would know from the VERY first paragraph.
“‘White gay men are the dominant demographic within the LGBT community,’ the U.K.’s National Union of Students (NUS) determined at a meeting earlier this week, ‘and they benefit from both white privilege and male privilege.'”
That implies that gay men are more privileged than lesbians, which I disagree with. And if you want to talk about being childish, I suggest you look in the mirror as only a person with child-like emotions, who is overly sensitive and who looks to be offended would find “gay men acting like black women” offensive.
No I’m not going to apologize as I neither did nor said anything wrong within the comments or the context of this article, nor do I act like a black woman, I just see no problem in people expressing themselves as they feel most comfortable and if that is similar to how a black woman may act, then so be it. Also no one OWNS a behavior, that is just ridiculous and puerile dribble. If gay men acting like black women offends you, you need to take a good hard look in the mirror and reexamine your life. You have said nothing of value or anything that would convince a wise man to change his position. Thus I have nothing more to say to you than good day sir, as you have more than failed to articulate a compelling argument.
Christopher Darlington
So you’re saying all black women act obnoxious and rude?
hellogorgeous
@Magnus: Look, I understand your point about “where do we draw the line?” but you could say that about so many things. Why would you assume that racism is one of those things that is “unreasonable” to complain about or equal to the jazz hands/clapping part of the article?
You’ve clearly never been affected by institutionalized racism, which is probably why you’re so insensitive to people who are offended by problems like these, but if you step outside of yourself, you may be able to understand.
You’re reading too deeply into the “totem pole;” although that is an important component, the real baseline or foundation of this issue is that this behavior is offensive to a great many people, and for that reason, you should be more sensitive. You also don’t seem to understand the behavior. It’s not that these people “who act like black women,” as you suggested, feel more comfortable behaving that way. They speak in ebonics, exclaim that they are indeed black women (or have an “inner black woman”) or use the phrases that they, themselves, attribute to black women in specific moments for comedic reasons. It’s a behavior that mocks and makes fun of.
And you’re technically correct that no one “owns” a behavior, but if some asshole mocked you to his friends, as you walked by, with limp wrists and swishing hips, whether or not you have either of those qualities, you know that he’s making fun of you because those behaviors are what he attributes to gay men. And wouldn’t you call that homophobic or at least offensive? It’s the same thing in this situation, except more so because this behavior includes exclaiming that you, in fact, are an (independent) black woman (who doesn’t need no man).
The picture that they used for this article is a meme. Do a google image search (the kind where you drag the actual image into the search bar) with that picture and see what comes up; it’s disgusting, and will prove to you that this behavior really does exist.
Here: http://goo.gl/o6eQ77
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/strong-black-woman-who-dont-need-no-man
You also didn’t address your “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” claim. How can you be an intelligent, perceptive or “wise” person if you think something like Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi is supposed to make Japanese people feel, as you put it, “flattered?” I hope that one day you’ll understand that it’s not “overly sensitive” to be offended by people reducing your entire culture to a stereotype and then mocking it. Maybe you’ll adopt a Chinese child, and he or she will come home crying because the kids at school pulled the corners of their eyes back to make them look “squinty”and spoke in a thick “oriental” accent (I’ve witnessed this happen), and what will you tell him or her: “You’re being overly sensitive and childish. You should be flattered; don’t you know that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?” I call BS on that.
DistingueTraces
Wow.
I have got to stop slumming online. It does my brain no good.
Kev
Or maybe white gay men are acting like some of their black gay brothers. In other words, Black Queen, or paying respect to their aunts, grandmothers, etc. Yes it is irritating when some white twink doesn’t know that a ‘read’ without acknowledging that the person is a member of your group is an insult–if I say “you can wear that” it’s because I don’t want you to look like a fool. And, why should acting “white” be the default position of a faggot? Bitch please.
blasted
@Cam: Cam you are part of the problem, you are no ally to anyone. I find it very telling that you chose to start picking on Trans people now. I honestly don’t know what’s up with that, but from here on out. Nothing you say holds any credible weight to me.
It’s a shame, you need to get rid of that hate.
Franklin
If gay white men insist on trying adopt the demeanor of a sassy black women, then they could at least get right. Study these women. Learn for them. Not over the top, and just the right about of attitude.
Phylicia Rashad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpEj00g9CyE
&
Janet Hubert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEo8Qp7Yua8
DarkZephyr
@blasted: I think you are overreacting when it comes to Cam. Cam is talking about people from the Trans community like Parker Molloy who are NO friends of gay men. Cam usually has very well reasoned intelligent things to say around here.
E T
@DarkZephyr: Cam might often have well reasoned intelligent things to say but that doesn’t justify transphobia any more than a well respected straight person should get away with homophobia.
For you, I have a simple test. You stated that people from the trans community like Parker Molloy are no friends of gay men. Would you ever state that somebody from the cisgender community like Mike Pence is no friend to gay men? Or would you leave out the fact that he’s from the cisgender community?
I’m willing to bet money you’ve never clarified that a homophobic person is cisgender, in which case you really shouldn’t be so quick to clarify that a homophobic person is transgender, as if to equate the homophobia and transgender people.
Parker Molloy spread some homophobia. I’ve read neverending streams of transphobic hate on these boards alone for years, before Parker Molloy became infamous. Maybe we ought to be less invested in protecting our own and more focused on holding one another responsible, especially the people you respect, and especially with regards to a community more likely to be shot than ours is.
DarkZephyr
@E T: 1) There is no “cis gender community” and there is no “heterosexual community”. There is an LGBT community which is made up of smaller sub-communities like the Gay and Trans communities (which themselves are made up of further small sub-communities). Why do we congregate into communities while straights and cis people do not? Because they do NOT need to come together in special communities to support one another. They do not face the horrors that we do. We need each other and support each other. And these are communities that WE have created and WE acknowledge and identify as being a part of, so mentioning these communities in statements doesn’t make a person transphobic or homophobic.
2) When I mentioned people from the Trans community “like Parker Molloy and her followers” I was talking specifically about Trans activists, and even more specifically those Trans activists who have a very special brand of homophobia that they spread, and its a lot more than just “some homophobia” AND its a very real problem that causes the kind of division that Cam is clearly speaking out against. My acknowledging this truth does not make ME Transphobic.
3) “Maybe we ought to be less invested in protecting our own and more focused on holding one another responsible…”
And since you have been here for years I would hope that you have seen how many times I have taken the Transphobes that post here to task. Because I acknowledge the problem of homophobia among *certain* Trans activists does NOT mean that I do not acknowledge the massive problem of transphobia among LGB people or that I never speak out against it. I speak out it *far more often* than I mention homophobia among certain members of the Trans community.
Thanks.
E T
@DarkZephyr: Well the word community isn’t that applicable to lgbt people either. I would argue we network as individuals, specifically we network with those who support and respect us. Cis hetero enlightened folk make up the majority of people I form community with, but I try to keep lgbt people around too.
It is because I respect your opinions and your judgment that I replied to you. I disagree with you on two accounts and I stand by that disagreement. First, respecting Cam doesn’t justify a transphobic statement. Second, Molloy’s homophobic comments and transgender identity shouldn’t be linked together in any way.
DarkZephyr
@E T:
“Well the word community isn’t that applicable to lgbt people either.”
Except that we LGBT people identify as a community and choose to do so, and so as such, as far as I am concerned, the word is applicable because we choose to make it so when we identify this way. Heterosexual cis people usually do not identify as being part of a “heterosexual cis community”.
“Second, Molloy’s homophobic comments and transgender identity shouldn’t be linked together in any way.”
Then perhaps the homophobia of certain people and their heterosexuality should not be linked in any way? And Transphobes shouldn’t be linked to the fact that they are cis? With all due respect and while I regard Trans people as my LGBT siblings, I do not agree that Trans identity is more sacrosanct than heterosexual or “cis” identity. Our identities are all equally important as far as I am concerned.
While I am grateful for your respect and I respect you as well, I have to say WITH respect that what I do not find overly respectful is your need to characterize my posts as just being blurbs that gratuitously point out the Trans status of a homophobe who just so happened to be Trans. She (and those like her) have made these statements *from the confines* of their status as Trans activists and have made it more than clear that this is what they were doing. Their comments were very much related to their Trans identity. If it had just been some random cantankerous old homophobe who happened to be Trans who made out of the blue homophobic statements I probably would not have mentioned the fact that she was trans at all. But that is not the case. This was well within context as far as I am concerned.
I am not trying to beat a dead horse here and I am sure our next exchange if there is one will be much more pleasant but I hope that you understand that I feel compelled to defend myself against this image that you are painting of a man who just gratuitously points out the Trans identity of people when their trans identity is irrelevant to the subject at hand. That is not how I operate and I don’t wish for people to have the impression that I do operate that way when they read these comments. Thank you.
Steve McSheffrey
It’s not Black women. We act like Black teenage girls…
Mike Benevenstanciano
Tim Rice
Bitch go on a fuckn diet.So you can see your dick again..you boo lip bitch
Martyn Valenzuela
Mmmmmkaaaay!
Ryan Thomas Murray
OH HELL NO…..!!!!
Sam Oropeza
Jeremy Coburn
I was embraced by the sisters in Flint Michigan where I grew up. Can you imagine being overweight really white and feminine in a rough neighborhood? If it wasn’t for them accepting me and protecting me and teaching me how to fight and stick up for myself, than I don’t know where I would be in my life. Yes I can get real hood real quick. Yes, I can attitude you up and down if I need to. I am grateful to them and thank them for that. No apologies from me.
Travis Stanley
This whole being so fucking sensitive thing is getting way out of hand.
No clapping? Because it, “triggers anxiety.”? Really?
Creig Stearne
Bitch please!
Joshua Serpico
So everybody agrees this has gotten out of hand?
Gary Hecklinger
VRon!!
Michael Clifford
Thank GOD!!!
Tony Minutella
This bitch be crazy
Lance Elias Wolverine
But I thought everyone has an inner black woman in them..
Dana Curtis Kincaid
Whatever.
Craig Houghton
First – gay black men start these things – they’re then copied by straight black women and then by other gay men. Get it right.
Joshua Greenberg
John Begin
Students need a real education
Tinker Patrick
im sorry, but its not a color thing. its a community thing.
Robert Barber
With pleasure…Act like “The Ghetto”*poof*You are!Never acted like that.Scathing wit and sarcasm better fit for me.
Christopher Stamm
Bitches please I act like however I wanna act. Who are they to tell us we can and can’t do #byefelica
Price JA
Who says black women don’t act like us?
Bill Ligon
How is a black drag queen suppose to act???? BITCH!
Jessica Somers
targeting a very specific group of people and passing a motion the goal of which is to “forbid” this specific group from expressing themselves in nonthreatening way by use of mannerisms or dress… what’s the word for that again?
Amaurys Arias
Then black women need to stop pretending like they didn’t get all the moves from black gay men.. they need to stop.
Matthew David Thompson
Matthew McMillion
Thad Kopelman
Kevin. Happy now?
Robert R Hammond
but… but… but… they are fierce! what if I lose my member card!
Nathaniel McManus
Marilou Hayes
Good grief, the world has officially gone nuts.
Rick Denton
Chris Meyers
Lee Swinney
Not oing to happen
Christopher Canon
Oh no she di’int! /Snap snap snap
Glenn Cheatham
Bite me!!!!
Kent Tahsequah
go find a all ucan eat buffet…keep ur mouth stuffed, and u don’t have to talk at all…cow!!!!!
Darryl Cummings
I like that.
Scott Edgar
I honestly dont know one gay guy who acts like a black woman.
Kevin Reginald Fancypants
Taylor Crawford
Damien Malachi
A agree with this article. We can’t be taken seriously as a culture or even a group, when we’re pretending to be something we’re not.
Dalton Moses
i LOVE it when complete strangers tell me to “be mindful”
Jimmy Lee
Guuurl, I aint stunting. Now you better step before that weave meets my fingers, ya hear??
Corey Walker
Don’t tell me what I can and can’t do.
Nathan Hemperley
As long as they stop acting like men and trying to have any opinions.
Mark Angstman
Good luck with that.
Dan Levin
Since when are mannerisms specific to race? I have never met a black woman who actually acted like that. It seems to be a stereotype perpetuated by the media.
Instead: how about those same gays stop acting arrogant, snappy, rude, obnoxious and belligerent?
John Howard Fearman
And what about black women acting like gay men? Is that justified?
Lukas Alexander Kempe
Matteo Snooks
William Noffsinger
So this student body defined what it means to act like a black woman?
Clai Green
If we all educated ourselves and spoke proper English what would we have to mock?
Carl Szulczynski
Too late. We kicked it up to a higher level and now we all share it or nobody gets to do the head roll honey child.
Feliciano Baltazar
What if it was black women that act like gay men? Haha. #mindblown
Stephen Meeks
Uh, uh. Don’t EVEN go there!
Gregory Haley
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. I’ll stop when this woman quits straightening her hair
Edward Kiner
To hell with that…(snap! – snap!). Maybe black ladies should stop acting like gay boys.
Ethan O'Connor
Flamboyant -.-
Rob Felber
Clapping is the most fucking annoying thing I’ve ever seen, so don;t worry about that.
Rogelio Lopez
Na uh ! She dun already dun got hersses !!!!
Nick Hung
so if you are not white, you cannot talk like a white person?
Chuck Stevenson
What a crock of crap!
Will Glitzern
Most people assume I’m straight…and black women don’t like me so much.
Scott McIntosh
The NUS has always been a joke organisation and it’s meetings are usually packed by the most pretentious, inept, politically obsessed students. Fortunately many of them grow up later.
Tim Michael Blake
Then black women should not be able to bleach their skin or straighten and color their hair ð?¸ â?? (that’s how stupid this article sounds)
Robert Cella
I agree.
David O'Flaherty
This can’t be real
Craig Bankert
Oh no she di unt gurl frend
Joseph T.D. Anaya
What exactly is their legal authority to speak for all gay males I wonder?
Ben Brown Jr.
Of course haters always get it wrong. I act like Little Richard. Rock and Roll. Deal with it.
Anthony Rodriguez
This is offensive
William Garner II
Oh please I am going to do whatever I want lol
Christopher Sensabaugh
Yet another thing they have to complain about. Hilarious.
Daniel Alvarado
oh really whos going to stop us
Joe Payer
this is dumb not all gay men “act black ” …..they act as themselves