[sudo-discuss] cuddling it
Yardena Cohen
yardenack at gmail.com
Wed May 8 11:35:12 PDT 2013
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Eddan Katz <eddan at clear.net> wrote:
> In the article you link to below, the objections described are from black
> women who thought that the song gave particular lower status to black women.
No kidding. If by "gave lower status to" you mean "erase entirely".
> It is an unfortunate interpretation of the song and a depressing admission
> of how deeply engrained the word nigger is in our culture.
You think you know better than any black woman on that subject?
> But it is my understanding of the intent of the songwriters to expose the
> degrading aspects of sexism that were being dismissed in response to the
> mainstreaming of feminism at the time.
"I was trying to fight sexism" is not at all incompatible with
something being racist.
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