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I don’t understand the mentality of this. Now before I get started, please note I’m not talking about the women who use their tears to weaponize racism against people of color. I’m specifically talking about women who dare to say or feel something, and men call it “white woman tears”.

When I hear a man (especially a white man) complain about “white woman/girl tears”, I can’t help but cringe. Here are a few reasons why I find it cringeworthy:

1. If you’re referring to white tears, why does it always have to refer to women? Men weaponize their tears to justify bigotry too. I always hear “white woman tears” and “white girl tears” but barely the other way around.

2. The term is typically appropriated by men, especially white men who don’t experience racism and aren’t educated about it. What was used to describe racism is now an excuse to justify bigotry because of one’s partial privilege.

3. Speaking of privilege, it is just a way for people on the highest social ladder to demonize those who intersect with both privilege and oppression. Specifically when men want to justify their hatred of women, they would add either “rich” or “white” to supposedly tone down their misogyny.

Honestly, any other way just makes no sense. Or maybe I’m the only one who sees this. I dunno.