Beyoncé, Beats and Blackface: Who’s Really Running Her World? (Hint: It's the Illuminati)

[peddlestools]

J/k, this isn't an illuminati post. This is an ontd_feminism post. Although I don't think Clayton Perry, the author of this editorial, is a member!

Comments

[boltonlove]

i don't mind being called a girl. i pretty much call everybody a boy or a girl.. even if they're a "man" and "woman"..

[kubaba]

Same, I don't see whats wrong with it

[jesustolemybike]

you'd call your dad or grandpa a boy...? what

[boltonlove]

i haven't spoken to my dad and grandfather since i was 7, so..

[blairbarella]

Oh snap! Shit just got serious

[boltonlove]

lol at me debbie downing at you

[sweet_honesty]

Considering I'm in my 20s and my dad and grandpa are over 50, what do you think?

[browniecakemix]

most of the time I don't mind it but there are times when the discrepancy gets really obvious

the real problem is that there's no intermediary word for girls/women the way we have the word "guys" for boys/men--I mean there's the word "gals" but nobody really uses it

[browniecakemix]

The fact that "guys"--which is indeed a male-gendered term--is considered "gender-neutral" should tell people everything they need to know about the gender discrepancies in the colloquial English language.