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A review by femmecheng
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins
2.0
I was legitimately upset reading this. I'm a white woman and Jerkins explicitly states the book is not about me. That's fine and everything, but what's not fine is the bizarre and completely unempathetic and uncharitable view of anyone who isn't black or more marginalized than her on the progressive stack. I'm more than willing to give her some leeway on this too, but if you think black women have a monopoly on sexual violence and the like and insist on using absolutist language like "white women will never experience this" then I just...IDK. I'd suggest therapy for what she said about porn because that was some real incel shit, but therapy is apparently for the "religious and spiritually lazy". Alright.
And finally, say it with me now: sexual violence is bad no matter who is committing it and no matter who the victim is. Sexual violence and sexual harassment doesn't cease to be sexual violence and sexual harassment just because a) Jerkins doesn't witness it (Jerkins contends that white women apparently never get their asses slapped. This is news to me and antithetical to my own experience) b) a white woman is the victim and/or c) a non-white person is the perpetrator.
"Dick is like food. Once you have it, it's a must."
"White women are not pressured to look like anyone other else but themselves."
"White girls stare at Barbies and see potential. Black girls stare at white dolls and see impossibility."
"Their womanhood does not eliminate their whiteness." I'm led to conclude that Jerkins thinks that blackness eliminates the maleness of her black male peers, however.
"There is a pride in still being here in spite of it all and that's a feeling white women will never be able to experience."
"What better way to destroy her titanic influence on my conceptions of beauty and desire as a black woman than to watch a man splatter cum all over her face. The more painful her moans sounded, the better. Watching a blonde woman have sex with one man was too gentle a scenario; I relished multiple men pulling on all her limbs using them to pleasure their penises. I wanted them to take her all at once. I wanted her to be completely overwhelmed. Pushed towards the precipice between ecstasy and death. As long as the men didn't turn me off by calling her a bitch or a slut as they rammed inside of her, I was satisfied when they put their hands around her neck or slapped the side of her face. I wanted to hear and see the slaps, the red marks on her body, and the disheveled hair. The more force, the better. I am almost at a loss for words for how consuming these orgasms were...I was not at all interested in watching ebony porn. I did not wish to see black women get handled with the same violence. I did not want to see a black women stuffed in every orifice even if she was visibly and audibly satisfied by the filling. Each time I saw a penis jammed inside her mouth, I wondered if it would block her airways and she would suffocate, and none of the men would notice as they continued thrusting. Nothing was fine about watching men either black or white pull her panties to the side, jiggle her breasts in their hands, call her 'bitch' as if they were calling her 'honey'."
"How do we protect ourselves if that means chastising black men who we have always been culturally conditioned to protect?"
"Therapy...is a pastime, a hobby...it is for the religiously and spiritually lazy."
"We cannot come together if we do not recognize our differences first. These differences are best articulated when women of color occupy the center of the discourse, while white women remain silent, actively listen, and do not try to reinforce supremacy by inserting themselves in the middle of the discussion."
And finally, say it with me now: sexual violence is bad no matter who is committing it and no matter who the victim is. Sexual violence and sexual harassment doesn't cease to be sexual violence and sexual harassment just because a) Jerkins doesn't witness it (Jerkins contends that white women apparently never get their asses slapped. This is news to me and antithetical to my own experience) b) a white woman is the victim and/or c) a non-white person is the perpetrator.
"Dick is like food. Once you have it, it's a must."
"White women are not pressured to look like anyone other else but themselves."
"White girls stare at Barbies and see potential. Black girls stare at white dolls and see impossibility."
"Their womanhood does not eliminate their whiteness." I'm led to conclude that Jerkins thinks that blackness eliminates the maleness of her black male peers, however.
"There is a pride in still being here in spite of it all and that's a feeling white women will never be able to experience."
"What better way to destroy her titanic influence on my conceptions of beauty and desire as a black woman than to watch a man splatter cum all over her face. The more painful her moans sounded, the better. Watching a blonde woman have sex with one man was too gentle a scenario; I relished multiple men pulling on all her limbs using them to pleasure their penises. I wanted them to take her all at once. I wanted her to be completely overwhelmed. Pushed towards the precipice between ecstasy and death. As long as the men didn't turn me off by calling her a bitch or a slut as they rammed inside of her, I was satisfied when they put their hands around her neck or slapped the side of her face. I wanted to hear and see the slaps, the red marks on her body, and the disheveled hair. The more force, the better. I am almost at a loss for words for how consuming these orgasms were...I was not at all interested in watching ebony porn. I did not wish to see black women get handled with the same violence. I did not want to see a black women stuffed in every orifice even if she was visibly and audibly satisfied by the filling. Each time I saw a penis jammed inside her mouth, I wondered if it would block her airways and she would suffocate, and none of the men would notice as they continued thrusting. Nothing was fine about watching men either black or white pull her panties to the side, jiggle her breasts in their hands, call her 'bitch' as if they were calling her 'honey'."
"How do we protect ourselves if that means chastising black men who we have always been culturally conditioned to protect?"
"Therapy...is a pastime, a hobby...it is for the religiously and spiritually lazy."
"We cannot come together if we do not recognize our differences first. These differences are best articulated when women of color occupy the center of the discourse, while white women remain silent, actively listen, and do not try to reinforce supremacy by inserting themselves in the middle of the discussion."