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Revision as of 05:15, 11 February 2009
White women's tears is a sarcastic / humorous reference to the tendency of race and gender discussions to be derailed by white women into the pain the discussion is causing non-POC. It parodies the overwrought concern of "(missing) white woman syndrome" or WWS[1].
During RaceFail '09, the phrase was mentioned several times; badgerbag created an image in delux_vivens's journal.
References
- ↑ See: Missing white woman syndrome, in which the media focus disproportionately on missing white women over missing women of colour or other missing people.