Posted on 01/03/2005 2:09:53 AM PST by kattracks
I also know good, respectable black women and black men. But they're a minority statistically (over 70% of black children illegitimate) and morally. Maybe they're trying to take a stand against the degradation of their community; certainly it's difficult even for middle-class suburban white people!
It's no surprise that hip-hop performers despise women - they're treated like Saudi princes because they have money and fame. In their experience, women will do anything for money, and there's nothing respectable about that!
I'm not into hip hop/rap per se I'm more into guitar based music, being a guitar player and all, but there is a lot of very cool hh/rap music out there. I can totally get into someone rapping over a cool beat but I cannot deal with the attitude or the subject matter, which seems to populate 95% of the popular rap. Of course, I don't seek it out so all I hear is the popular stuff.
Hypocrisy from the pages of Essence Magazine! Anyone who has read it knows what I'm talking about.
While I have no problem with the editors of Essence finally getting off of their collective haunches to do something about it, I get the impression that they "discovered" this all on their own, and that they feel that this is a new thing. Where were they months ago when word of this first started to show up?
Oh. I know. Busy advising women on how to bash and alienate their men in yet another article that aped Cosmo and all the other women's magazines out there.
Feh.
Women's magaines are really appalling these days. Read the headlines on the covers and you'd think they were sex manuals or something. That, and the focus on looking pretty, diet, and fashion - nothing at all intellectual or practical. There's a few like Better Homes or Family Circle that actually have intelligent articles. I'd hate to think of a younger generation of women seeing this stuff and thinking that looking good is the only important thing is life.
They don't seem to be a bastion of traditional values, do they?
I don't get that impression. I DO know they WHINE. Two things you can count on when reading Essene Magazine is readers whining about white women and bashing black men, well three things and telling readers to vote democrat (even though the editor didn't expressly SAY it in that fashion). You have to look HARD to find a sentence about Condi Rice but they laud a convicted terrorist murdered like Winnie Mandela. Boggles the mind.
yeah, let me guess who they're lashing out at *didn't read past the title*: the Jews in the entertainment business for making so much money by promoting this medium, right?
I looked at their website. The lead article about Vivica A Fox mentioned that she "slimmed down" from size 8 to size 4! Weren't black women supposed to have a healthier concept of size?
Hollyweird does strange things to people. It certainly isn't a healthy place to be employed either.
BTW, whatever some people make up for ignoring the gay fashion mafia's dictates of appearance, they have other issues which is another thread altogether.
WHY NOT
hook that hottie
A handsome stranger walks by, and the cat's got your tongue. If flirting flusters you, try this strategy: Signal that you're approachable with a genuine smile. Make eye contact, and let your gaze linger. If he holds your gaze, approach him and introduce yourself. A question or a compliment will break the ice.
(And then you can spend the night with him, pick up HIV, and complain that men don't respect you.)
I see you noticed that the fashion industry is run by people who are turned on by 13-year-old boys!
Honestly, I feel guilty about reading celebrity news. These people are so unhappy; it's like staring at auto accidents!
I used to buy a lot of fashion magazines. The more I shut myself off from dominant lamestream media the better I feel :-) The schadenfreude value of watching moviestars who think they know it all screw up is worth it.
Wow! Whatta a great site for grieving men ruined by truly awful females of the feminazi variety! Thankfully, they are all not like that. My experience with les femmes has been very good to great, thank goodness.
I just posted it for entertainment. I'm happily married.
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