If you have been under a rock here is the deal. Comedian Monique made a video about her disapproval of wearing bonnets in public. I, a Gen Xer agree with the stance. Ask my niece how many side-eyes she gets when she is with me with one on. Many Millenials & Gen Zers got angry & told her to mind her business and stop enforcing her respectability politics on Black Women. Monique doubled down in her views. Then the chatter was getting quiet and Monique posted a picture of a plus-size young lady in a very short casual outfit and what looks like a plastic conditioner/shower cap in an airport that was sent to her. And she says in that post basically This is What I Was Talking About, but Do You. I'm probably still taking the deepest of deep sighs. Nobody is slow. We knew what she meant. We didn't need the visual. And it is cyber-shaming, in my opinion. And of course many took sides Many had praise or vitriol about her post. But very little finger-wagging at whoever the photographer was. If I find out it was an ugly man with unkempt braids, I won't be shocked. I just hope somebody close to the comedian aunty help her understand the foul posting of that photo.
But truthfully, I AM TIRED!!! I don't want to hear crap else about this issue. Dead Horse had been beaten to Glue.
DEFINE RESPECT & SELF-RESPECT and live your definition. And that is all that needs to be done & said.
As Always Talking to You in Adult Terms!
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