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It Ain't No Fun If My Homies Can't Have None Snoop Dogg
Kill you Eminem
Back Dat Azz Up Juvenile
Big Booty Hoes Notorious B. I. G. & Too Short
Move Something 2 Live Crew
Freak Ho 2 Live Crew
Put Her In The Buck 2 Live Crew
Miss Fat Booty Mos Def
You Remind Me Of Something (My Jeep) R. Kelly
Thong Song Sisquo & Foxy Brown
etc. ad nauseum...
Misogyny sells! In movies, music, and videos degrading and slandering women has moved beyond sport to obsession. Sex has moved from a consenting act of love to a blatant act of lustful aggression.
I routinely hear or read about incidents that appall and frighten me. I recall my teen aged years, when I dreaded being audibly cursed by men whose flirtations I refused to return in the streets. Now, I hear women actually get spontaneously beaten when they do not give their phone numbers to any thug who requests it. I recall being afraid to go to clubs alone. Now, I hear women who do not arrive alone are routinely raped inside clubs. Offenses that were once lewdly unnerving are now maddeningly petrifying.
I am very proud to be a 36-year old childless lesbian. It means that I am usually blessed to escape such juvenile mayhem. I am also blessed with the peace of mind that comes with not having to worry about a daughter who may be less blessed.
I am not a partygoer. And, I am not a mother. But, I am a conscious and afrocentric womanist. That means that I care about all sisters everywhere. And, that is why I am seething with rage about the excruciatingly ugly occurrences in Central Park. Over 48 women went to watch a parade and were forced into being the frantic feature attractions!
By spiritual extension, karmic association, and ancestral inheritance, I am my sisters' keeper. Similarly, our collective brothers are supposed to keep all of us. Decency, honor, and respect used to be kept at outdoor gatherings as typically as barbecue, sodas, and music. So, what the hell has happened to "humanity"? What fuels the increasingly brutal sexist evil that men do? Especially young men who find themselves suddenly, easily, and ferociously sexually aroused?
What caused these mass rapes in NYC? "Rape" has always been diverse by definition. One can be raped spiritually, emotionally, financially, mentally, and physically. Rape can be committed by genital penetration, groping, the insertion of fingers, and vicious verbal abuse. No one who witnessed the fear in any one of these victims' eyes, or the frenzied group maulings that they endured, can deny that these women were indeed raped.
There are those who will stupidly say that all scantily clad women deserve to be raped. Such fools dare to ignore the droves of infants in diapers and elderly women in flannel who are brutally raped daily.
There are those who will arrogantly blame apathetic, racist and inept New York City police officers for failing to act when predominantly Black and Latino females were attacked by brazen men who looked like their brothers. Such fools ignore the white female victims who were also attacked unmercifully.
Are the police responsible for flagrantly refusing to protect and serve these victims? Hell Yes! Are the police also to be blamed for the men who behaved like rabid packs of dogs in heat? HELL NO!!!
Police officers are no more to blame for this event than the organizers of Woodstock 1999 were to blame for the predominantly white rabid packs of dogs in heat that committed similarly vulgar acts against predominantly white females. Likewise, similarly apathetic and inept security officials did nothing to assist those victims at that event.
Police officers are supposed to protect and serve. Far too often, they only orchestrate frames and commit municipally sanctioned public executions instead. Yet, no one should expect police officers to satiate, neuter, or magically make monsters morph into men!!!
On subhuman life charts, racist dogs and sexist dogs share a space. Mayor Giuliani is a rabidly racist dog. The only thing uglier than his Keystone Killer KKKops, and the mass rapes they allowed to take place, is Giuliani's attempt to pretend that these officers were being passive due to righteous protests about rampant police brutality. There is a very bold and clear line between flirtation and assault. It is equally glaring and evident as the line between keeping the peace and keeping an "accidental" death toll.
Ironically, the same cops who casually ignored female victims surprisingly rushed to incarcerate their primarily Black and Latino victimizers. The white rapists at Woodstock were never so expertly apprehended after their sexist crimes. Why is that? Could it be that cops favor punishment over protection? When our brothers are the ones we need protection from, when they refuse to keep us, should we even give a damn about the agents who keep them? Belated and selective justice are both better than none at all!
In this world filled with hatreds, hatred of women is universal. This was a massive display of just how intensely women are hated. Most starkly, it was evidence of just how dangerously and instantaneously such sexist hatred can explode.
Who should/could have stopped this melee from happening? Only the macho monsters who went insane when the blood that fashioned their collective erections drained their defective brains dry! And, only the wealthy promulgators of their insanity who market sexist madness and mentacide as "art"!
Namely, those who could have stopped this included:
Rabid elder dogs who teach young men to be rabid puppies.
Absent excuses for fathers who leave boys alone and lost to grow up to be maniacal excuses for men.
Ignorant excuses for women who should stop behaving like public access whores so routinely that men assume all women are the same.
Female police/security officers who need to be present in FAR greater numbers at all such events.
Real African/Latino men who do not hate women, and who should act as mentors to young men so that they may learn to be humane rather than canine.
Responsible celebrities who make music and movies that enlighten rather than poison minds.
Real African women who should teach all young women to demand respect and to love themselves as they act wisely and safely in all spaces at all times.
I wish that emotionally retarded men could understand the constant fear that women must live with due to the violence of sexism like that which fueled this most recent madness. Men only feel the fear that we live with daily when they are inmates in prisons. It is the fear of knowing that what happened in New York could happen at any event, anywhere. It is the fear of knowing that we can be raped or beaten or killed anywhere and at anytime; in our own showers, homes, beds, or parks....
Fortunately, this fear has now been caught on videotape
in NYC. I wish that it could be viewed by millions as often as millions
will view gyrating G-strings and bouncing breasts on video shows nationwide.
I wish those who filmed these sex crimes in progress were capable of viewing
their replays with their third eyes. Sadly, their collective third
eyes are blinded by "booty".
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The Ladies Club
Billy Jack
Extremities
Boys Don't Cry
Eye For an Eye
Girls Town
Once We Were Warriors
Last House on the Left
Coffy
Bullies
A Time to Kill
Cape Fear
The Accused
Dead Man Walking
Lady Sings the Blues
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Also see a related column herein: "The Life & Times Of Sarah Baartman: Madness in Music Videos"
POSTCRIPT via [www.wlib.com/newstalk.html-(6-26-00)]:
COPYCAT SEX ASSAULT A playground in Queens was the scene of similarity to the Central Park assault. Seven 12 year old boys are charged with sexually abusing a 12 year old girl. The alleged assault occurred outside IS-180 on Monday morning. Authorities say the boys circled the girl, grabbed her, turned her upside down and fondled her, all the while shouting "the Puerto Rican day parade", referring to the sexual assaults that occurred in Central Park, following the parade. The seven boys were charged with sexual abuse in the first degree. The boys return to court next month for arraignment.
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