{"id":2056,"date":"2014-11-21T20:41:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T20:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/11\/21\/its-also-pretty-scary-when-youve-got-a-group-of\/"},"modified":"2014-11-21T20:41:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T20:41:24","slug":"its-also-pretty-scary-when-youve-got-a-group-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/11\/21\/its-also-pretty-scary-when-youve-got-a-group-of\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s also pretty scary when you’ve got a group of loud, young black males roaming the streets at night. Could spell potential disaster to a lone female, or lone person of a lighter skin color."},"content":{"rendered":"

spyderqueen<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It took me a second to realize this was about my comment about \u201cwhite men in groups\u201d being a fear uniting POC, women, and LGBTQIA+ that was just an offhand comment on another post, but I still occasionally get stuff with bullshit racist or MRA commentary in response to me.<\/p>\n

So, let me tell you a thing, as a cisbi white middle class girl who lived in West Philly: if someday, I\u2019m out in the city late at night, and I have down the sidewalk in front of me a group of white men, and across the street, on the other sidewalk, a group of the most fucked-up media stereotype of black \u201cthugs\u201d? I\u2019m going to cross the street, give a polite acknowledging nod of \u2018good evening\u2019 to the black gentlemen as I pass them, and keep walking my way.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, could I be maybe mugged by that group of \u201cthugs\u201d? Yeah, but I could be mugged by the white guys too. That tends to be far more tied with economic status than race. But am I likely to be molested, raped, assaulted, or murdered by that group of black men? Actually, no I\u2019m not; I know my fucking statistics: I am significantly more likely to be victimized by a white man than by absolutely any other demographic.\u00a0 I was going to qualify this by \u201cas a white woman I am significantly\u2026\u201d but then I realized it was unnecessary.<\/p>\n

I fear a group of slightly drunk white dudes wearing J Crew\/American Apparel\/Ed Hardy\/whatever far more than this bullshit idea of a drug using \u201cinner-city youth\u201d. Most people should.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

spyderqueen: It took me a second to realize this was about my comment about \u201cwhite men in groups\u201d being a fear uniting POC, women, and LGBTQIA+ that was just an offhand comment on another post, but I still occasionally get stuff with bullshit racist or MRA commentary in response to me. So, let me tell … Continue reading It’s also pretty scary when you’ve got a group of loud, young black males roaming the streets at night. Could spell potential disaster to a lone female, or lone person of a lighter skin color.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}