The blog is about ending violence committed against women by men. It's inspired by PostPartisan : Pay attention to Holloway, Flores murders, by Jo-Ann Armao, which appeared on the op-ed page of the Washington Post today ... which happens to be the 64th anniversary of D-Day.
Armao links the murder of Natalee Holloway (left) in Aruba five years ago ...
... with the recent murder of Stephany Flores Ramirez (right) in Lima, Peru.
Suspected in the murder of both women is Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch national (left).Spectacular murders are just one aspect of male violence against women. Another, more frequent aspect is domestic violence. Yet another is rape, including date rape.
The culture is permissive toward all this. Why?
We hear in the lyrics of rap music about how women are, supposedly, whores ("hoes"). Here's an example, called "She's a Hoe":
You filthy hoe, you lying, filthy hoeThat's just the first verse ...
You lying hoe, you trifling, lying hoe
You stupid hoe, you dumb, you stupid hoe
You filthy hoe, you young, you filthy hoes...
[Chorus]
Every night, in niggaz rides
You swear up and down, that you look fine
But she a hoe, she’s a hoe, she’s a hoe, she’s a hoe, she a hoe
She a hoe..., she got no walls
Love to lick niggaz balls, for free and that’s not all
A H-O-E muthafucka!!!! H-O-E gotdamn!!!!
A H-O-E muthafucka!!!! H-O-E gotdamn!!!!
[Verse 1: Wisemey]
Shorty young, I heard she only sixteen
She love to suck old niggaz up for free
At night, she out busy servin’ on her knees
She drinks Hennessey, smoke’s weed and pop’s ecstasy
Hoes play games, they always fuck with your mind and
Most of these hoes be out lookin’ like dymes
They play you for your dough, your cheese, your paper
Then they go and lie to the cops, sayin’ you raped her
They always go to the clubs, lookin’ for the ballers
If she gives you her number, playa don’t even call her
They wanna try to spend all of ya ins
The next thing you know, the tow truck is towing your Benz
They wanna tell lies, sayin’ they don’t suck dick
Mo’ pimples on ya face than a Overtown trick
Fuck these hoes (these hoes) they wanna act
Quick to sell they ass for cash, cash for crack...
OK, maybe this is just an example of heightened anger toward women, an exaggeration of resentment that in real life is much milder that the lyrics would suggest. We generally permit such exaggerations of feelings in art, so why get our knickers in a twist over this?
Maybe because we have trouble these days separating art from real life ...
Anyway, hip hop lyrics are just one example of the ways in which the culture sows the seeds of violence toward women.
I'd like to explore those ways in this blog, and think about what needs to change to put an end to violence by men toward women ...
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