It’s Time to Put the Mediocre White Girl Aesthetic on Mute
I might sound like a hater, but I’m over the mediocre white girl aesthetic.
This aesthetic represents minimal effort, poor performance, and cultural appropriation, with maximum results. The swagger-jackers.
And I can predict the rebuttals.
It’s not lost on anyone that Black women and femmes have achieved the unthinkable, but at what cost? The gaslighting, micro-aggressions, sleepless nights, the “always on” palatable persona. They overcompensate in the approval department, hoping to receive a small amount of recognition that their non-Black manager may co-opt in the name of “teamwork.”
In Dreaming Whilst Black, Amy, a talented Associate Producer from Nigeria, finds herself trapped in a Production Assistant role in London, with no opportunity for progress. However, they gave the open AP position to an inexperienced white woman in the name of “diversity.” Usually when this happens, Black women are then tasked to acclimate (see: train) their new boss without resistance in the name of being collaborative.
High level insulting at its best.
Then there’s my fave, The Other Black Girl.
The show highlights Black women conforming to the white gaze for upward mobility. But, if you grew up in a…
