Sabrina put the mirror right up to white women's faces.

and they didn't like what they saw.

Let’s start off with this. I’m not the biggest Sabrina Carpenter fan (though I have listened to Short & Sweet once and have maladaptive daydreamed roller-skating to Bed Chem) nor am I that deep into white women’s business but the rumblings of big controversy sneaking over to my side of the internet was enough for me to get curious. A lot of white women are mad at Sabrina Carpenter about an album cover, furious even. That was the gist I got through the few videos that slipped through my algorithm. “Well damn, Sabrina seems like a cool girl what did she do?” me wondering. I search “Sabrina Carpenter new album cover” in my Google search bar. Scroll down a bit and see the same photo attached to several articles from The Guardian, The Cut, New York Times. I zoom in to get a better look with my black woman eyes and CACKLE.

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

This is the cover. Now, I get why this would be jarring on first look. A woman, a famous, highly desired woman on her knees subservient to what seems to be a firm dominant man. Nobody wise likes to see women at the feet of patriarchy. It’s very much a yikes. However, the black woman in me, the same black woman who watched white woman by majority support the largest figure of patriarchal tyranny of our time, Donald Trump TWICE. The same black woman who herself have continuously felt abandoned and betrayed by white women who almost always chose the favor of men before a sisterhood that crossed racial lines, Sabrina Carpenter’s album cover if anything looks like a white woman’s accurate self portrait.

My laugh was so hearty because this is exactly what white women look like to woman of color. And white women’s shock reaction goes to show they have no idea what they look like from the outside.

It also does not help that I’m currently trying to bite through the hard read of “They Were Her Property” by Stephanie Jones Rogers. A text of historical reference recounting the over 40% of American white women who were slave masters and often accounted as the the most gruesome as way to compete and gain favor of white men.

Do I think Sabrina Carpenter considered all this? No. She probably does just love being a submissive with a concerning, possibly irresponsible Lolita fetish but the unintended political and social satire of it all does EAT.

I would say this would be the perfect push for white women to take a sec and do the good work to dissect why exactly this image twists and turns them so much. If this maybe could be reflective of their own behavior and stance in society as a whole but I’m at the point where I have no expectations. I don’t care if they do and given historic pattern they probably won’t.

I just had to write this piece though. Someone had to. It’s too rich with irony to pass up. Sabrina girl, you are truly one for the books.