Some Women Really Need to Grow Up

[Phil]

I know I'm gonna get flack for this, but after seeing this woman get public praise from Diddy on being a good role model for young women on the BET Awards to reading her say this about her preferences in KING magazine in frickin' 2008:

“An authentic gangsta—that deletes about half the rap game off your list. I love guys who are street. I won’t even give soft guys a chance. Menace II Society is my s**t! Caine was like my first crush. Actually, O-Dog was my true dream guy. I was in love with him, from that opening scene where he pops the convenience-store worker. He had me from that gunshot [laughs]. He was ’hood, and I loved that.”

Hah. Whatever. Yeah, yeah, it's HER preference, but she also quite effectively cut off her appeal, or at least diminished it, with that statement. And y'all know this isn't the first time a young, Black woman in the spotlight makes her preference for criminalized and animalistic images. My thing is the impression statements like this makes on the media displaying these statements. This kind of statement has practically become the newest stereotype for young, Black women, and it's not fair, and y'all know it!

So, feel free to hit me upside the head about this, lol...I know it's her preference, she should have just kept that ignorance to herself! Loving "thugs" is like some damn 1992 shit!

[Rnl]

That young broad just needs to listen to my song "where dem hoes" I"m talking about this exact shit. This, i wanna thug shit...... oh really do u? You just want that feeling of protection...I know gurls like this and when bad shit happens i just say "well u do love the thugs"