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It Must Be ya Ass Part Duex


July 28, 2007 | Tags: Hip Hop, women
If you didn't catch the original, you can check it out here

I know there are a few women that post here on the regular, so this one is for you (but the fellas are more than welcome to weigh in on this one).

After having a little debate with my "soon to be" over the original blog, she stated something that seemed a bit out of this world to me. Here it is: My point is this, if you want to see a change in trends it has to start
with the men. If more men reacted to a woman's intellegence, rather
than her body, then more women would display their intellegence, rather
than their bodies.

Let's be real for a moment, it's easy to say that if men stopped watching videos with half naked women in them, they'd go away. On the flip side, if women didn't want to be the objects of half naked affection, said videos would also go away. I'll be the first person to admit that I like looking at half naked women, so the odds of me not watching said entertainment is slim to none (though I do think that the game suffers from a lack of balance). On the flip side, if women stopped being half naked, I suppose that I and the rest of the circle jerks in the world would find some other form of entetainment to tickle our fancies.

With that said, it has always been my belief that the movement for either a)total annhilation of the video vixen or b) at the very LEAST, a balanced portrayal of women in Hip Hop (and subsequently pop culture) must be led BY WOMEN, FOR WOMEN. A man can't lead a women's movement any more effectively than a white person could've led the Black Power Movement in the 60's.

I believe that men should be limited to two roles if/when said movement jumps off
1. SUPPORTING the women
2. TEACHING the next generation of young men how to be responsible father's/spouses and how to properly treat a woman.

What say you, DX readers... can a man lead the women's movement? I think not, but I could be wrong...








though i doubt it.




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