Man, my attention span for youtube ads is getting smaller and smaller. I assume those ducks were cute, but I'll save that discovery for a little bit.

I just saw that the following was tweeted at Willow Smith:

“Willow Smith, you’re 11 years old. Nobody needs advice about ‘being themselves’ from you. Call us back when you get your period”

Now, that's clearly rude, and why the fuck are you being such a shithead to an 11 year old girl? Is that the sort of fight you take on with your day? Verbally beating up on a pre-teen? Dude. Self respect.

However, where I saw this related was within the context of sexism and racism. Uh, isn't it clearly ageism?

I mean, it's not like I haven't read people telling Bieber to shut up and go take some hormones or something. What is the characteristic of this attack that sets it apart as sexist and racist?

Oh, and can someone get my stomach to stop hurting? It's really messing with my plans for the day, which include working, thank you very much.

What is the characteristic of this attack that sets it apart as sexist and racist?

Because minorities and women have a long history of being silenced and dismissed?

Because minorities and women have a long history of being silenced and dismissed?

I thought ita was questioning it because they're only criticizing her age, not her race or her sex.

well, they are her sex "come back when you get your period" is pretty sexist.

My guess is that anyone calling it a rqacist or sexist attack is ASSUMING the attacker would not send the same tweet to an equivilent pre-teen "star" who is either white or male or both. Quite an assumption to make.

You can tell a black person to shut up and it not be racist. This I firmly stand by.

Just like you can tell a woman to shut up without being sexist.

Sometimes you're actually talking to people, not at them.

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"come back when you get your period" is pretty sexist

It is, but in this context the intent is to indicate when she's "reached maturity," which is age-related.

Don't get me wrong -- no one should be picking fights with eleven-year-olds on Twitter in the first place (and I'd venture that most eleven-year-olds shouldn't be tweeting anyway), but in this case they're calling out the offending tweet for the wrong reasons.

LeN, I don't think I'm being naive thinking that being gendered and an insult (it is both) doesn't mean it's sexist. Because if they'd been trashing Jaden, I'd imagine they'd have told him to come back when he can grow a beard. You absolutely can't know. Like msbelle said. I mean, Bieber gets too young shit tossed at him too. I don't know what the volume of each is, but it's not like being a rich white kid is exempting anyone from criticism.

I have to say I felt similar emotions when Avril Lavigne, all of nineteen or whatever, referred in an interview to her album as "Something I've been working for my whole life," and I kind of like Avril Lavigne, but still? For half a second I was thinking "Just die, Avril," which makes me glad I didn't tweet that.

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makes whimpering noises at the laptop

I wants it. Or a reproduction of it.