White women's tears
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].
In the early 1990s, Native American lesbian poet Chrystos published a poem about the phenomenon, titled "Those Tears." [2]
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.
- ↑ http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4469/tears.html