“Let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad’s immigration practices, you feckless c*nt. He listens to you. Put on something tight and low cut and tell him to fucking stop it. Tell him it was an Obama thing and see how it goes, OK?” - Sam Bee, May 31, 2018 on Full Frontal with Samantha BeeIn one of the most bad faith campaigns in a career of many of them, hard right wing groups demanded an apology from Samantha Bee for calling Ivanka Trump a “feckless c*nt” after Ivanka Trump posted a photo of herself holding her baby as the story of the missing 1,470 migrant children who went missing raged on.The apology demand was done in response, in part, to Roseanne getting her show canceled for comparing a black woman to a cross between Planet of the Apes and the Muslim Brotherhood, which, one would posit, is a lot worse than one woman calling someone mocking grieving immigrant mothers the c-word, but, hey. That’s neither here nor there!My love! #SundayMorning pic.twitter.com/CN5iXutE5Q
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) May 27, 2018
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is upset about "silence from the left" re Sam Bee calling Ivanka a "feckless cunt" for swanning around on social media, hugging her son amidst news of children being ripped from their parents by ICE. So I won't be silent:https://t.co/FA79R4sWgT
— Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) May 31, 2018
1. Language's ability to inflict harm depends on power of who's wielding it & against whom it's being wielded. Not just individuals, ie, it's not about Bee/Ivanka or Roseanne/Jarrett, all of whom have power. It's about power of entities & ideas individuals are representing.
— Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) May 31, 2018
3. You can not like the word "cunt" for feminist reasons; you can--& should!--think about why a term for female anatomy is such a potent pejorative. But use of it in this context is not reinforcing or replicating the crude harm it has been used to inflict historically...
— Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) May 31, 2018
5. It is fundamentally different from Roseanne comparing Jarrett to an ape, a racist locution w deep racist roots, bc unlike Bee's deployment of cunt AGAINST a misogynistic, racist administration, Roseanne's racism is deployed IN SUPPORT OF a racist, misogynistic administration..
— Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) May 31, 2018
7. Therefore, Roseanne's utterance mirrors & reinforces harm being inflicted by most powerful against least powerful, while Bee's challenges that power dynamic
— Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) May 31, 2018
9. The illusion of persecution of the powerful is made possible by the powerful's ability to fashion a public narrative around their own interests & to normalize to the point of invisibility the ACTUAL harm done every day to the less powerful.
— Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) May 31, 2018
10. Cause remember kids, SHS can say w straight & righteous face that a comedian being mean to Ivanka on TV is "vile" "vicious" "appalling" & "disgusting" but would apply none of those descriptors to administration she's fronting for, which takes CHILDREN AWAY FROM PARENTS.
— Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) May 31, 2018
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