Sadly, they are pushed to do men things that appear to be "masculine" cause many of our men are feminine as fukk.
Let's be honest.
I have a theory that I have to admit isn’t well thought out yet. But I’m going to lay out some of my thoughts and would like to get some feedback.
I’m guilty of calling some black women masculine and aggressive and I’ve made the decision to stop.
Why?
Thought 1:
Have you heard any other race of women having those characteristics attributed to them? I haven’t.
Thought 2:
For a good part of my life, I’ve heard black men make a comment in some form or another about masculine black women and it seems to have kicked into overdrive the past few years with the rise in popularity of Kevin Samuels.
Thought 3:
Personally, I have observed that black men react to black women in ways they don’t react to other races of women. Black men use an inordinate amount of extreme force and aggression with black women which seems to result in black women having the highest death rate due to domestic violence.
Thought 4: (Side thought)
The extreme use of force against black women appears similar to how white police officers respond to black men. With extreme force. Because they view black men as masculine and aggressive. They view them as a threat.
Thought 5: (Another side thought)
When you look at medical racism, one of the reasons why there are disparities in health related outcomes across race is due to the fact that white doctors view black patients as having higher pain tolerances, which, in part, is due to them perceiving us to be stronger i.e. more masculine and less human.
Thought 5:
Could it be possible that black men have internalized anti-blackness to the point that we view and treat our female counterparts in similar ways to how white people respond to black people?
We view them as masculine.
We view them as aggressive.
We view them as strong.
Which means we unconsciously believe they have higher pain tolerances.
Which allows us to respond to them as we would with any male threat.
With extreme force.
With extreme aggression.
Which is resulting in the high rate of black women’s deaths.
Anti-blackness is causing black men to deny our women their femininity and humanity.
And it only seems to be getting worse.
The Kevin Samuels generation is consciously perpetuating this black women are violent/masculine/aggressive anti-black narrative which is unconsciously reinforcing in the minds of black men that black women are a masculine threat, which explains why black men have been responding in kind. With extreme force that results in death.
Anti-blackness is genocide. We have to deal with it externally and internally, from all fronts.