Why you have to be careful in who and what you support

I made a post last week about some blogger defending Taren Guy, saying that her personal life has nothing to do with what she does.

Well, people need to be more careful and selective in who they follow and support.

To make my point, there is apparently some disapproval and discourse from black women about misrepresentation of black women by a company called K'Tan that makes baby wraps.

Many people felt that it was racist of the company to represent the black woman with her baby and no man in the picture, while the picture of the white woman shows her with her baby and her husband/significant other/partner.

Now, anyone who thinks this "uproar" is insignificant, most likely needs a lobotomy.

While I am not a marketing major, I took enough business and marketing classes to know that marketing is basically the science of pandering to the public's psychological perception and reception.

The company responded back, I guess, due to a flood of angry people who felt what they did was wrong.

When all these black women get mad when non-black people take shots at us on a marketing level, we have to look back at ourselves and wonder, "Why are they marketing to us in this way?" "What are WE doing that makes them think it is okay to market their products to us like this?"

That's why it is imperative you take a stand against the Taren Guys of the world. She should have been on the front of the box instead of that other woman, since she represents that image.

Furthermore, you have to stop being afraid to take a stand and call out people for behavior that makes the whole look bad. When you police your own, you let the rest of the world know that you are not okay with that behavior and they will sit up and listen. However, when you sit by idly and say nothing, or worse, support the very thing that causes others make a mockery of it, then you can't really be mad at them. I'm not doing victim blaming, I'm just saying, "Open your eyes and say something when you see bullshit happening and stop waiting for someone else to do or say something.

You might say "Well, Taren doesn't represent me and what does her personal life have to do with mine?"

Well, just take another look at the pic above and you tell me?

Proof that Taren Guy aka Taren916 has idiots for followers

Now they are making entire posts defending her behavior, telling people her whore behavior is none of their business.

One of those people is self-diagnosed Asperger's syndrome blogger by the name of Te-Erika Patterson.

She asked the question "IS YOUTUBE SENSATION TAREN GUY AN EMBARRASSMENT TO BLACK WOMEN?" and then proceeded to defend Taren, saying that marriage is a socially constructed concept, basically saying do what the fuck who you want and fuck everybody else's feeling, so what if you get pregnant by whomever, even if it is someone's else's husband, as long as you keep giving love another try, even if that love is for another woman's man.

Then she proceeded to call the woman who made the petition to Motions, a troll. How rich. The petition starter told the truth about why it is important to not have representation from people like Taren in the media.

ETA: Apparently in her frenzy to moderate comments on this particular post, she inadvertently deleted all the comments. LOL The comments were comedy gold though, barring the few other Taren defenders.