Maty Ndiaye by Marie Wynants for Madame Figaro France Magazine February 2024

What the entire fuck

A woman with crest hairstyle and ornaments, Igboland. Photo: Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal, Mid 20th century.

so cool how this woman-beating narcissistic fucking freak just got a hagiographic image rehab profile in the hollywood reporter and his movie is getting a full court press wide release because his famous buddies decided to go to bat for him and the whole world has decided that you can just beat and strangle whatever women you want as long as you can get the type of people on social media who think "it's actually okay because he beat up a WHYTE woman" on your side

i'm just going to say it: the way this man and his PR and legal teams have capitalized on the tone and toxicity of online racial discourse to justify this kind of violence because it was the "right" kind of woman to abuse, and the fact that many women online got on board with it, is a very damning sign of how cooked feminism is.

As a white woman who has been abused by a past male sexual partner who also happened to be a person of color, I can tell you that when I went to the hospital for my injuries, they were more focused on what I had done to provoke him (nothing) than they were the fact that he had beaten the shit out of me. "This could turn into a racial issue for him and that's not the case here," is what the nurse and officer both said to me.

He beat me, but because I'm a white woman, my statement that he beat me would look bad on the black community. It doesn't matter that he was black and that I'm white - he was a man who hurt a woman just because he could.

we all hate jonathan majors here, but what is it exactly that you are suggesting, op? are you suggesting that majors is getting an image rehab because he is black? rather than because he is a man? i’m trying really hard to give you the benefit of the doubt here, i’m thinking that perhaps you aren’t aware that famous black men get away with beating and raping their black partners all the time. chris brown is an outspoken abuser of primarily non-white women, and his career continues to thrive, for example. or perhaps we need to revisit the case of michael fassbender beating the shit out of several of his black girlfriends, blaming it on “alcoholism” and then going on to face exactly zero repercussions? fassbender didn’t even get fired like majors did, dude. literally no one gave a fuck.

or maybe you’re only concerned about white women who are victims—in that case, you’ve forgotten that famous white men who attack white women also suffer no consequences and have the public on their side? you know, like in the johnny depp and blake lively cases radical feminists are currently obsessed with? and racist white men who beat the shit out of white women have also been coming back to hollywood in a big way with mel gibson’s also THR-facilitated image rehab, along with that which alec baldwin benefited from years ago. these guys get the benefit of the doubt because they’re powerful and famous men. not due to their race. at most, race is another angle for apologists to exploit, but there’s no evidence that black men get away with abuse because they’re black, rather than because they’re men.

genuinely, i am wondering why you’ve chosen to frame the issue this way (no one cares because the victim was a white woman)? again, are you suggesting that people would care if she was black? would you like me to tell you that the majority of femicide victims in the US are black? that approximately six black women are murdered every single day in my country, also primarily by black men like majors? but the majority of those cases go unsolved? i certainly hope you’re not suggesting that black women have some kind of systemic privilege over white women when it comes to this issue. i really hope that’s not what i’m seeing here today. i feel that is the implication you’re very strongly suggesting.

i am reblogging this version of the post so my followers can see both how op fails to support her claim with her cited evidence (which features majors making typical domestic abuser threats, but doesn’t appear to uh “capitalize on the toxicity of online racial discourse”) and also to tell the person who shared their abuse story this: i am sorry you were assaulted. “protect the black community” is something black women are also told when they’re abused by black men. quite famously, megan thee stallion was pressured to keep quiet by everyone around her. this isn’t a new issue; tina turner was almost beaten to death by her husband, but her doctor told her to shut up because speaking out “gives us a bad name”. when she died recently, people were still slandering her and calling her a race traitor.

so, again, this isn’t about protecting black people, it’s about protecting men. it’s about patriarchy. when you frame this as an issue of race rather than patriarchy, you are perpetuating racism. look: i’m not going around to posts about abusive white men and sharing my story of how white boys took turns raping me and then bragged about without consequence. frankly, the thought didn’t even cross my mind until just now, because i don’t associate all white people with my abusers.

so i daresay you two need to seriously examine your motivations and rhetoric here, because the implications are really troubling.

i was gonna leave all this in the tags, but it got too long and. Honestly! i just got more and more upset so fuck it.

i just. i'm Trying to comprehend op's take. but i'm also kinda bluescreening in my brain rn bc this is straight up a Very upsetting post. but more than Just upsetting, it's downright absurd (and speaking as a black woman- i Really feel like i'm getting punk'd rn. tbh.)

THIS is your sign that feminism is 'cooked'? THIS?? oh my GOD!

now that some of The Worst to ever do it (jonathan majors' PR team) are capitalizing on and feeding into the racist, misogynistic cesspool that is today's social media (obviously bad) in order to push a narrative that domestic violence is Totally Cool Actually if the abuser is a black man and the victim is a "WHYTE" woman (aka the "right" kind of woman to abuse. apparently), That's the big sign (Your big sign) that feminism. is COOKED? wow. weirdest take ever, but ok!

and, shit. if that's what your personal doomsday clock is telling you about the State of Feminism, then the situation of black women must be fucking Dire, huh? or did the YEARS of hateful online harassment campaigns against black female victims of domestic violence- using Every antiblack (straight Dripping with the grossest misogynoir) justification under the goddamn sun- not ring any 'oh shit! the Feminism!!' alarm bells off for you? or something? slipped past you? business as usual type shit? but now that the abuser is black and the victim is a white woman, yeesh! all hands on deck!!

idk what world you live in, but the world i live in has people who Live to defend black men who abuse black women. people (online and offline) Still defend tory lanez against megan thee stallion. and chris brown against rihanna. And chris brown against karrueche (and more from chris brown!) and (until recently, but lbr) diddy against cassie. and ike against tina. and r kelly In General (whole docuseries about that). or (best/worst example) mike tyson against robin givens. robin givens was titled "The Most Hated Woman in America", despised by both men And women in the general public, bc how dare this black bitch try to bring a good black man down, we can't have that.

like, i think it's More than fair to say that (since you wanna turn this into a race thing) black women (i'm biased, so i'm gonna be bold and say even more so than white women) are Widely considered the "right" kind of women to abuse. universally. across decades. on And offline. by men And women. both within And outside the black community. we've got out own special version of the word "misogyny" ("misogynoir") and everything! the justification never ends bc we're seen as disposable. we're asking for it. it's not just black men (and nonblack people in general) who think this, even some black women agree with that rhetoric. anything to defend the ugliest black man you've ever seen.

but, yeah, feminism is cooked Now. bc "the whole world" (the worst social media has to offer) got people tryna justify the abuse of a white woman, since the abuser (jonathan majors) is a famous black man, by crying "racist!"? shit, forget the labels. people are tryna justify the abuse of a woman bc the abuser is a man? people are supporting the man doing domestic violence? people hate women? people are defending A Man? omigod, what a never-before-seen phenomenon! feminism is in Shambles! TF??

it's not looking good for these white feminists on here at all. can't even handle talking about race? yeah, they're fully cooked.

Anok Yai by Quentin De Briey for Harper's Bazaar US Magazine March 2025