Lost Grrrls

-Dr.Boyce Watkins (Speaking on Jay-z’s decision to stop using the word bitch)

Best post of the day in my book.

(via jumpstart-therevolution)

Okay. So I agree with this. But. Can we also acknowledge that people do grow? That sometimes it takes a personal situation/major life event to make that change happen? And that Jay Z is not solely responsible for why this is “a world where…” It was that world before he ever spoke a word. He upheld that world, yes, but he didn’t create it. And if he is evolving and speaking against it now, while taking responsibility for his part in previously upholding it, I don’t see how it does women any benefit to keep poking at him. I also would like to know why these critiques are so much harsher against men of color than against white men. Why is it that Jay Z will, seemingly, never be able to be sufficiently remorseful but white men are barely critiqued for the way they talk about/to women, and women of color specifically, at all?

(via notyourkinddear)

i really need for Professional Black Mouthpieces (TM) to stop taking shot at hip hop because they know it’ll get them on the air. esp if they don’t listen to it. ESP if they don’t listen to anything that was made after 2002.

and also? way to per usual vastly underestimate hip hop listeners’ ability to have nuance. jesus, Jay Z fans are probably not going to refer to his daughter as a little bitch. at least, not anyone that matters. because that’s disrespectful and stupid. it doesn’t work like that. if it did, there would be way more rap songs calling other people’s daughter’s bitches, b/c Jay Z isn’t the first rapper to have a daughter. fyi.

and all this concern trolling for Blue Ivy really needs to stop. i understand the internet wasn’t what it is now when Eminem first came out, but i have yet to see ANY sort of similar concern trolling for Hallie, or any similar suggestions that the music he makes somehow makes him unable to be a suitable parent, and he *still* raps about murdering women. frequently. still have yet to read a blog post giving *her* advice about how to navigate this treacherous, sexist world.

(via so-treu)

Ya heard? I am over this shit . You honestly don’t like Jay-z cool. I know and have read folks who don’t but this transparent use of somebody who still doesn’t know where their own FEET are to get at him or the problem of hip hop needs to damn stop. Or wait its perfect because just like the hip hop you despise you think women’s bodies are game board pieces

(via blackamazon)

THOUGHTS?!

(via newwavefeminism)

Every single one of us is learning and growing. Constantly.

Or at least I hope so.

So would it have been nice if Jay-Z never used the word before, or stopped a long time ago? Yeah, that would be lovely. But he didn’t, did he? So we’re living in a world now where “99 problems but a bitch ain’t one” is a common enough phrase, and maybe that sucks… But at least if he’s finally recognizing it’s problematic, and that he certainly helped fuel that problem, THAT’S A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

Should we give him (or any other men) cookies for something they should’ve done all along? No. But should we attack them for finally wising up and deciding to make a change for the better? No, we shouldn’t do that either.