^^ - good points.
Even more vexed is the combination of mysogyny and homophobia e.g. "a bitch-ass nigga's worse than a bitch" etc.
There's obviously a cartoon/blaxploitation/acting aspect to all this, but it must also have its roots in a deep insecurity on the black male ego (if there is such a thing), not unrelated to the above-mentioned ever-present threat of prison, linked to poverty, lack of education, stable early environment etc.
Hence the dreary parade of hyper-masculinism in hip-hop, when even it's "most intelligent" star can come out with Gold Digger...
Slightly off-topic, I was mildly shocked to hear Snoop Dogg recently explain how he was taking his teenage son out of his own sponsored Snooper-bowl-type football league because his grades weren't high enough... when the pigs try to hassle you, park it like it's hot, and I roll the best weed cause I'm a really responsible father, beeyatch. No irony, no schism perceived between the mysogynist pimp gangsta persona and the fine upstanding parent. ?
Even more vexed is the combination of mysogyny and homophobia e.g. "a bitch-ass nigga's worse than a bitch" etc.
There's obviously a cartoon/blaxploitation/acting aspect to all this, but it must also have its roots in a deep insecurity on the black male ego (if there is such a thing), not unrelated to the above-mentioned ever-present threat of prison, linked to poverty, lack of education, stable early environment etc.
Hence the dreary parade of hyper-masculinism in hip-hop, when even it's "most intelligent" star can come out with Gold Digger...
Slightly off-topic, I was mildly shocked to hear Snoop Dogg recently explain how he was taking his teenage son out of his own sponsored Snooper-bowl-type football league because his grades weren't high enough... when the pigs try to hassle you, park it like it's hot, and I roll the best weed cause I'm a really responsible father, beeyatch. No irony, no schism perceived between the mysogynist pimp gangsta persona and the fine upstanding parent. ?