white women's tears
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.25 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A display of tears or unhappiness from a white woman, often feigned, that brings attention to her feelings and sense of victimhood in response to criticism by black women.
Derogatory
Example Sentences
- "A few weeks ago, I had lunch with a childhood friend. White girl from the Southside of Chicago, she's now a professor here in NE. Our friendship ended at 18. Why? White woman tears. I told her she made me feel like a charity case and it hurt her feelings."
- "Picture it: a white woman feels challenged or uncomfortable about something a Black person said or did. Instead of using her words, she cries. Instantly, no matter what the initial catalyst of the situation is, she ends up being appeased, pacified and pampered. Lawd knows we’ve all seen virtual white woman tears shut down conversation, even if she was the instigator of conflict. […]"
- "This attempt to separate the personal and political is central to white women’s tears as a strategic device. We demand to be treated as ‘just a person’ who should be granted the benefit of the doubt, who exists outside racialised structures and power relations even as our actions perpetuate them."
- "In analyzing the literature, specifically by Matias (2013, 2017, 2019), we find that White women's tears are nothing more than the emotionalities of Whiteness as they use this tactic in such a way to pull attention toward themselves, and in my case, away from the culturally affirming activities that were implemented for our students."
- "The media circus around the [Donna] Fasano case was always about what we might now call “white women's tears”"