Elle Beau ❇︎
2 min readDec 22, 2020

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I don't think you even really read my story. It's about my experiences with white dudes I know who are friends of mine behaving in particular ways towards me in discussions about both racism and sexism. That's about me and things that have happened to me - which you are telling me are wrong to speak about. That is trying to cancel me out.

Then there's the whole segment in there I wrote about how white women hold many of these same views, and vote in the interests of their men that you've completely glossed over.

What you are putting forth is a personal feeling that you have based on your negative experiences with white women. If you want to write about that, please do, but that has nothing to do with my story, and you chastising me for something that is actually about you is way out of line.

First you start by saying I should include all whites, not just men (which I did, if you'd bothered to actually read the story). Then you say that it's racist not to do so -even though it's actually about gender and not race. You have some kind of personal axe to grind, that no-one else has a problem with, so much so that you can't even make a cogent argument or interface with what's actually written.

I'm sorry that you have had these negative experiences. And, that also doesn't give you license to indiscriminantly lash out at others over it in a way that isn't even related. I spent a lot of time re-reading my story and thinking about what you said in order to determine if I had inadvertently done something wrong. My piece is very clear, specific, based in sociological precepts, etc. as well as relates my personal conversations and interactions on this topic. Yours is painting with a broad brush that doesn't even make a lot of sense. I'm not sufficiently mad at white women for your taste. That's what it boils down to.

You highlighted that you are the only person who had a problem with my writing in this vein, but you didn't address it. How do you account for that if I am so out of line?

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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