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Misogynoir

The hatred of black women, though this isn't unique to the black community I wouldn't be surprised if this has
been discussed and contemplated before and it's about time it's being christened in the catchiest way possible.
To put it this way, this callousness has to do with treating black women as less as their white counterparts as
well as the internalised racism that pressures black women into accepting and doing things.

You have things like black women and black people in general being perceived as more masculine than whites
right down to the diseases they get (even if that's not always the case where at some point in Africa the biggest
disease among black Africans was liver disease or something). Stereotypes of blacks being athletic (I fall into
this at times and still do). And expecting black women to be strong (I fall into this too even if many African
countries and communities are highly patriarchal).

This also causes problems that ironically leads to worse mental health issues (I even suspect Whitney Houston's
drug addiction plays into her trying to fit those expectations and I have similar expeiences myself despite not
being black). This misogynoir discriminates black women a lot to the point where some have to go so far to
appeal to black men by making themselves paler yet some black men can't stand them.

(They make it harder on those who strive real hard to please them.)

There is also the tendency to view black women as mean or whatever even though some go there to escape
their countries' sexism or something like that. (That's probably and parismoniously similar to

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