Comments on: Shaniqua-No-Ho: Crowd-funding when the crowd is surly

By: TaRaysha

TaRaysha — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:22:10 +0000

In reply to tanita. Tanita is not any less ghetto than Tanisha. From TaRaysha...Yeah..I know.

By: marjorie

marjorie — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:13:27 +0000

Yes, whenever I write a story about hooked-nosed moneylending Jews, I give it to a Jew I know to look it over. He’s one of the most determined, capable, intelligent, and culturally aware people I know. He built his own usury business from the ground up, and he rarely uses Christian children’s blood in his matzohs. Where’s his superhero?

By: sumac

sumac — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:13:54 +0000

Yeah, exactly. I fear they thought it was edgy.

Here’s what they said on Reddit about their consultant.

…we actually got a sex worker to look over the script. She’s one of the most determined, capable, intelligent, and culturally aware people I know. She built her own business from the ground up. She’s happily married. She’s overcome abuse and works against patriarchal oppression pretty much on a daily basis, so why shouldn’t she get her own superhero?

I try to work against the stupidity pretty much on a daily basis, so where’s my superhero?

By: tanita

tanita — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:44:56 +0000

Hoo, boy. The NAME Shaniqua – or almost anything that ends with a ‘-sha’ or a ‘-qua’ gets my back up – I even get shirty with people who call me Tanisha – because, among other reasons, it’s not my name. But, you’d be surprised by how many people think it’s “close enough.”

How these guys could have been so vacuous and blind is kind of terrifying. And their apology achieves a kind of ultimate vacuousness as well – you’re right. Abject, but vague and mainly concerned with fending off more anger.

I really question the “research” they did, and the sex-workers they allegedly asked, and I cannot help but think that they should have known that they were taking part in stereotype and caricature with just the name Shaniqua, not to mention the hypersexualizing. I mean, they want to hide behind being well intentioned and unintentionally offensive, but REALLY??? DUH.