When women criticize … I’ve been called hysterical and told to reign in my anger, get control, etc. Anger is not a legitimate emotion when it comes to debate, even if it isn’t detectable. Being passionate about a topic renders one hysterical, or so it would seem when the person debating doesn’t want to actually deal with what is being said. I’ve also been asked if it’s my time of the month. Oh the bag of tricks … censorship, man-hating, there’s a list of accusations women know by heart when it comes to disagreeing with our point of view. But maybe I’m being too pessimistic here…

Elisa Gabbert over at the Ploughshares blog, “Last night after a poetry reading I commented in conversation that I thought a certain Notorious B.I.G. song was sexist. I was surprised by the reaction this elicited–no one in the group disagreed with the assessment, exactly, but everyone seemed to disagree with my making it.” Continued here.

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M. Dot writes over at Racialicious, “The majority of rap videos make it clear that hip hop is one dimensional in how it perceives, portrays and represents women. Turn on BET now and the evidence is there staring you in the face. Video Vixens, both aspiring and official are dancing and posing as the rappers talk about spinning rims, murder and cash. Pop culture is also one dimensional with how it perceives and represents women. The coverage of Britney Spears, Amy Winehouse and now Miley Cyrus is indicative of this. …

It may be time to acknowledge that hip hop is both enjoyable and harmful. You and I both know that young girls see video vixens and want to be them. Getting paid off how you look is a serious grind. To young girls it looks glamorous. The cars, the jewelry, the stilettos, champagne. What these young girls don’t know is that there is severe inner turmoil involved with constantly being evaluated on how you look and having your income, your ability to pay your rent connected to these evaluations. What they also don’t know is that the Video Vixens are the only material members on set of the video who are not members of a union and because of this they receive an inequitable share of the profits in relationship to the value that they contribute. The cinematographers, editors, directors, the writers all have unions.”

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