get free or die tryin'.

The dirty secrets of “The Help” - Laura Miller - Salon.com

this is like saying—I can detail your rape across thousands of movie screens world wide and in books everywhere because it reflects negatively on the rapist, not on you. feminists would NOT support that logic and would rightfully protest the fuck out of it.

let’s be clear—shit like having it legally written into *law* that you can’t use the bathrooms that YOU CLEANED—that is not *demeaning*—it’s fucking *dehumanizing*. demeaning is all the men at the table asking me to go get them coffee when I am the same position as them.

*dehumanizing* is when the *law* protects white owned toilet seats from *you*. a *toilet seat* is deemed needing legal protection from *you*. You are lower than a fucking *toilet seat*. In the era immediatly following the law defining you as 3/5 of a human.

that is *dehumanizing*. and in the case of domestics—they have to bear that shit alone. in the “privacy” of the genteel homes of women whose womanhood was held so sacred, they could get a man lynched if they said the word.

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