Aw.
::HEADDESK::
Awwwww really?
I wrote a review criticizing the novel and I find out she's dead? For a chicana studies class? My professor is going to flay me in Spanish or something. @_@
I'm in class right now, ready to turn in that review, scolding the author for not making sense and using resentful word vomit to deal with her problems. She really does point fingers at everyone but herself, and most of all, snarls at 'white people'. I get really irritated when people blame a race for all their problems. Yes, thank you for the history lesson about Colonial America taking over your land. I know this. Should I throw you articles about Romans invading Britain? About Britain invading Ireland and basically enslaving them? People conquer other people. Move the fuck ON with your lives! Don't just use a blanket statement about 'whites' (what the fuck, btw, why don't my cultures count separately too? No? Oh, sweet, double standards) to validate your bitterness.
I recognize that there is racism, unequality, and the like, but damnit, it goes both ways. We should be so far beyond blaming a race for our problems. It pisses me off when any race blames another for their problems. Go show them what you're made of! Go fucking immigrate! Yeah, it takes forever, sorry. But you can do it legally. It's not impossible, it's just difficult. There will always be difficulty in life, and you're lucky if you get handouts.
Bottom line, this professor is going to glare at me for the review and tell me I'm an arrogant white girl, which she can get away with because once upon a time my ancestors killed hers and made them move and her ancestors killed other ancestors and blahblahblahblah, apparently that entitles her to mock my culture and automatically think I suck.
I did write positive things in the review; how I respected her for her unabashed commitment to being female, how she doesn't sugar coat anything she's feeling, even if it's biased and ridiculous, and her embracing her culture but with reservations, rebelling against the patriarchal values that keep women subservient and dumb. So, I'm not a complete ass. I just chafe immensely whenever anyone points the finger at a race instead of rising above such petty ranting.
This is not to say I approve of 3rd world country oppression. Hurgh. She's going to kill me.
Awwwww really?
I wrote a review criticizing the novel and I find out she's dead? For a chicana studies class? My professor is going to flay me in Spanish or something. @_@
I'm in class right now, ready to turn in that review, scolding the author for not making sense and using resentful word vomit to deal with her problems. She really does point fingers at everyone but herself, and most of all, snarls at 'white people'. I get really irritated when people blame a race for all their problems. Yes, thank you for the history lesson about Colonial America taking over your land. I know this. Should I throw you articles about Romans invading Britain? About Britain invading Ireland and basically enslaving them? People conquer other people. Move the fuck ON with your lives! Don't just use a blanket statement about 'whites' (what the fuck, btw, why don't my cultures count separately too? No? Oh, sweet, double standards) to validate your bitterness.
I recognize that there is racism, unequality, and the like, but damnit, it goes both ways. We should be so far beyond blaming a race for our problems. It pisses me off when any race blames another for their problems. Go show them what you're made of! Go fucking immigrate! Yeah, it takes forever, sorry. But you can do it legally. It's not impossible, it's just difficult. There will always be difficulty in life, and you're lucky if you get handouts.
Bottom line, this professor is going to glare at me for the review and tell me I'm an arrogant white girl, which she can get away with because once upon a time my ancestors killed hers and made them move and her ancestors killed other ancestors and blahblahblahblah, apparently that entitles her to mock my culture and automatically think I suck.
I did write positive things in the review; how I respected her for her unabashed commitment to being female, how she doesn't sugar coat anything she's feeling, even if it's biased and ridiculous, and her embracing her culture but with reservations, rebelling against the patriarchal values that keep women subservient and dumb. So, I'm not a complete ass. I just chafe immensely whenever anyone points the finger at a race instead of rising above such petty ranting.
This is not to say I approve of 3rd world country oppression. Hurgh. She's going to kill me.