Hood Sexism: Really Son?
Last week on Twitter this guy @MoeScoe was showing off this new t-shirt he designed to a lady, @secretaddy. The t-shirt was this:
There are all types of shit wrong with this, which the creator clearly didn’t see. His responses were even more comical Let me just show you some of the responses to the complaints about his shirt:
@secretaddy u are too tight relax damn, its just a metahpor, we dont actually drag girls like that, damn, its not u being dragged. relax
@secretaddy ok u taking this too far, just shut up. damn! have u consider that fact that some pple like to be handled that way??? lol
and
@secretaddy thus wats wrong with pple these days, just jump into conclusion, u went too far with this shit, disappointed in you.fuck!
You know, once upon a time, I used to wonder what exact women meant by misogyny, but this right here hits me as plain as day. What he failed to realize is that the shirt can be interpreted to advocate rape. Then it has the word “bully” in it. The definition of bully in the Merriam-Websters is:
–noun
@secretaddy u are too tight relax damn, its just a metahpor, we dont actually drag girls like that, damn, its not u being dragged. relax
He told her not to worry, because it wasn’t her being dragged.
Oh ok.
So women should be cool with other women being dragged into the bedroom and bullied into sex (remember: bullying implies its unwanted, because if its wanted, it ain’t bullying folks) as long as it ain’t them. Let’s take this logic further. You should be okay with gang violence and children getting shot in the street, as long as it ain’t your kids. Be cool with houses being burglarized, as long as it isn’t your house.
WTF.
Sexism like this has to stop. It’s ignorant, it’s abrasive, and it’s just plain dumb. When 1 in 6 women have been a victim of an attempted or completed rape, this kind of blatant “metaphor” shirt just speaks volumes of how little we take things seriously in the black community. It’s downright deplorable.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
This entry was posted on March 29, 2011 by Greg. It was filed under Random Thoughts, Social Networking and was tagged with Bullying, Illuminati, Kanye West, People, Rape, Sexism, Twitter, Violence and Abuse, Women, Youth.
I really don’t have anything to say, beyond that you hit the nail on the head.
funny how I’m having a convo abt misogyny right now via email.
March 29, 2011 at 11:50 am
“@secretaddy ok u taking this too far, just shut up. damn! have u consider that fact that some pple like to be handled that way???”
*dead*
so why was she fussin again?
March 30, 2011 at 7:45 am
Personally, I think it’s hilarious. Stupid people amuse me, and it really amuses me to see humanity continue their cycle of self-destruction like this.
April 3, 2011 at 12:05 am