LMFAOOOOO Mammy was absolutely NOT a fucking feminine figure AT ALL
I will direct you to the Jim Crow Museum where they break down the bullshit:
Abolitionists claimed that one of the many brutal aspects of slavery was that slave owners sexually exploited their female slaves, especially light-skinned ones who approximatedĀ the mainstream definition of female sexual attractiveness. The mammy caricature wasĀ deliberately constructed to suggest ugliness. Mammy was portrayed as dark-skinned, often pitch black, in a society that regarded black skin as ugly, tainted. She was obese, sometimes morbidly overweight. Moreover, she was often portrayed as old, or at least middle-aged. The attempt was to desexualize mammy. The implicit assumptionĀ was this: No reasonable white man would choose a fat, elderly black woman instead of the idealized white woman. The black mammy was portrayed as lacking all sexual and sensual qualities. The de-eroticism of mammy meant that the white wife ā and by extension, the white family, was safe. Ā Ā Ā
The sexual exploitation of black women by white men was unfortunately common duringĀ the antebellum period, and this was true irrespective of the economic relationshipĀ involved; in other words, black women were sexually exploited by rich whites, middleĀ class whites, and poor whites. Sexual relations between blacks and whites ā whetherĀ Ā consensual or rapes ā were taboo; yet they occurred often. All black women and girls,Ā Ā Ā Ā regardless of their physical appearances, were vulnerable to being sexually assaultedĀ Ā by white men. The mammy caricature tells many lies; in this case, the lie is that Ā Ā white men did not find black women sexually desirable.Ā The mammy caricature implied that black women were only fit to be domestic workers; Ā Ā thus, the stereotype became a rationalization for economic discrimination. DuringĀ Ā the Jim Crow period, approximately 1877 to 1966, Americaās race-based, race-segregated Ā job economy limited most blacks to menial, low paying, low status jobs. Black womenĀ found themselves forced into one job category, house servant.Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā
Read that seven or eight fucking times until you get the goddamn message.
Mammy was NOT A WOMAN. Mammy was a PACK MULE FOR WORK that was deemed fundamentally ASEXUAL so white men could excuse raping them. Because it wasnāt REAL, since she wasnāt really a woman, you see?
Dark skinned Black women shown as feminine, fragile and dainty is revolutionary in a society that explicitly puts us in the position of MONSTROUS, UGLY AND UNLOVED.
Black women as damsels in distress is RADICAL in a society that purports Black women as only WORK MULES
Daji said what she mothafuckin SAID in the damn OP.
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