tiny brain: kanye west is satan incarnate and we must stop him before he murders taylor swift with his bare hands and dines on her flesh, signed, me, tumblr user speaknowandbefearlessin1989
equally tiny brain: taylor swift is an ugly bitch with a bad boob job and a victim complex and it’s okay for me to say that because she’s uhhhhh a bad feminist
regular-sized brain: by virtue of her whiteness, taylor swift holds a great deal of structural power over kanye, and she appears to be deploying this power to play into a longstanding cultural narrative of white female vulnerability that actively endangers black men by painting them as predatory. simultaneously, kanye west has a long history of inexcusably misogynistic behaviour by which black women have been hit first and hardest. we must ask ourselves why his sexist treatment of taylor swift has elicited a widespread defensive response that his attacks on, say, amber rose did not. it is possible and necessary to have this conversation without directing misogynistic vitriol at taylor swift and racist vitriol at kanye west.