A Twitchy reported Friday night, People Magazine was pretty excited about “Januhairy,” a movement in which women would let their armpit hair, leg stubble, and everything else grow out for the month. The founder called it “an empowering project for everyone to understand more about their views on themselves and others.”
Jezebel, however, is calling it racist and asking that women not do Januhairy.
Can we not do "Januhairy" please https://t.co/5mDuNCvcSw pic.twitter.com/LdkSPhAE1t
— Jezebel (@Jezebel) January 11, 2019
Sure, Januhairy sounds empowering if you’re a conventionally pretty and privileged white girl like Laura Jackson up there. But Prachi Gupta sets the record straight in Jezebel:
… I support Januhairy’s intentions, and if it encourages more women to embrace their body hair, that’s lovely. But let’s please keep it in perspective: a white woman discovering and promoting the wonders of not shaving her pits, in the dead cold of winter, when we shave the least anyway, is not a particularly brave stance.
Pretty white women are often celebrated for their bushy eyebrows or for their courageousness in growing long, silky strands from their pits, but it’s black and brown women and trans people we should be honoring and highlighting; they are routinely mocked, harassed, and threatened for refusing to conform to Euro-centric, Western standards of beauty. While white women are liberating their pits, brown people, who have darker, and oftentimes coarser, thicker hair (in more places), are contending with colonialist expectations of what their bodies, and hair, are supposed to look like.
Colonialism … is there nothing bad that can’t be traced back to it?
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Anyway, forget all that. The value is that it triggered Jesse Singal to write an epic thread about Feel-Bad Liberalism. Stay with us here for a bit.
Jezebel pic.twitter.com/HHm196zJRx
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) January 12, 2019
Imagine being a young feminist trying to figure this shit out and being told that, as a white person, you are already celebrated for… having body hair?
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— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) January 12, 2019
The rise of Feel-Bad Liberalism has been such a disaster and is so obviously a corporate scam
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) January 12, 2019
Feel-Bad Liberalism tells you that even though you THINK you have the right politics, really, you're a piece of shit because of some pesky ID category you can't dislodge. Luckily, there's always a training or more content you can consume to try to scrub the stain off.
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) January 12, 2019
Feel-Bad Liberalism is inimical to any sort of solidarity because it is designed to carve people up into finer and finer groups as a cheap power play, and to sell them stuff based on the groups they've been shunted into
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) January 12, 2019
Feel-Bad Liberalism is a scam and has no capability to address any of the major problems in the US progressives and leftists agree need to be solved. It's a way for mediocre people with nothing of value to say to assert power and sell stuff.
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) January 12, 2019
I gotta write an actual piece about this stuff. It's such a dead-end and so many young people are having the Feel-Bad Liberalism model burned into their poor vulnerable malleable brains in their early years as activists or (huge air quotes) "journalists."
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) January 12, 2019
If something really has a similar structure as a cult, where you just buy or read more and more and more stuff, but there's never a point where someone pats you on the shoulder and says "you're good now — you're fine," doesn't that raise certain questions?
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) January 12, 2019
"The world's on fire and the far-right is running everything and we need all the help we can get. Will you join us?"
"Yes, I'd love to!"
"Great, but first: You're a fucking piece of shit. You know that, right?"
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) January 12, 2019
Normal, healthy adults do not respond to clearly bad-faith or ill-formed or aggressively inflammatory claims about their moral worth coming from internet weirdos with "I'm so sorry! Tell me more!" This is not a normal way to be a person in a really complicated world.
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) January 12, 2019
I'll never forget the stripper. The one @tweetertation mentions in her book. A 19-year-old with an unplanned baby on the way talking about her "privilege."
This is what Feel-Bad Liberalism does. It turns people into morons. That friendly apologetic stripper likely got COMPLETELY pic.twitter.com/kgk2uwCVx4
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) January 12, 2019
fucked over by the fact that our country does not provide people with the basic shit other rich countries do. Ask anyone who isn't super-wealthy who has had a kid! It's insane. It's unfair. And you CANNOT fix this shit if you have 19-year-old strippers who believe themselves to
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) January 12, 2019
be "privileged" because they read some dumb idiot websites. The secret is the people who write this stuff don't WANT this 19-year-old stripper to have access to better healthcare and daycare and everything else. They just. Want. Her. To. Feel. Shitty. So she'll keep buying their
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) January 12, 2019
pablum. Christ, how do people not see this? It is such a transparent scam. Take the anger that SHOULD be directed at the ridiculous way our society is run and redirect it inward so people hate THEMSELVES instead and come to you for purification, since you claim to offer it.
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) January 12, 2019
(We’re skipping a bit here.)
(In conclusion: When the taqueria near me that is tasty shuts down, that's Feel-Bad Liberalism. When my heater clanks loudly in the middle of the night, that's Feel-Bad LIberalism. The Matrix sequels? Feel-Bad Liberalism.)
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) January 12, 2019
Nailed it.
Thread of the month. https://t.co/q7QAaxh1sf
— jon gabriel (@exjon) January 13, 2019
Maybe the century.
— Laura ☘️ (@laura_lrnzo) January 13, 2019
Wish I could retweet this a million times.
— Behind the ? Curtain (@FLJohns) January 13, 2019
Maybe of the millennium
— Stephe96 (@Stephe96) January 13, 2019
Thread. Jesse Singal is beyond giving a f**k about what angry people on Twitter think and is just telling some angry truths. I will be amused by attempts from people to tell me why anything he says in this long thread is wrong. https://t.co/l5LXD6kaO2
— Esoteric Jeff (@EsotericCD) January 12, 2019
Jesse Singal right now. pic.twitter.com/uN0rs55wcR
— T.J. (@Armyactor) January 13, 2019
Good thread. Thanks for sharing.
This is possibly the most important item.
It points to the fundamental flaw of all leftist/progressive thought that makes it a dangerous religion. There is no end point. Followers can never be faithful enough. https://t.co/e6bwbqFk4G— "He didn't win,did he?"-Harry Reid&Democrat ethics (@Melvin_Udall_) January 12, 2019
Yep. You might think you’re woke, but then someone posts a tweet about how their 8-year-old is so much more woke. But it was made up because the person wanted to show how woke they are.
Anyway, we’ll agree with Jezebel on this point: Can we not do Januhairy?
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Intersectionality fight! Are male and female bodies just colonial constructs that do not exist? https://t.co/9XBBrq25ac
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 10, 2019
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