Hip Hoppers are hopping mad at Ashley Judd. She doesn't know her place. They are all indignant about a *white woman* kicking their asses for being misogynistic. Black women have been complaining about it for years they but they are not taken seriously. "A call for more, not less, misogyny in hip-hop" shows just how little regard hip hoppers have for black women who complain about misogyny as they mercilessly mock them: "they should go on diet" and "if black women were objectified more often, maybe they'd be that much more motivated to hit a treadmill or eat a salad." The comments in the article are disgustingly misogynistic as well. http://www.xxlmag.com/bloggers/2006/05/is-rap-misogynistic-enough/
When I read Ashley's statement: "I believe that the social construction of gender - the cultural beliefs and practices that divide the sexes and institutionalize and normalize the unequal treatment of girls and women, privilege the interests of boys and men, and, most nefariously, incessantly sexualize girls and women - is the root cause of poverty and suffering around the world." I thought she probably took a page from Hillary who makes women's economic power and security a cornerstone of American foreign policy Read more: http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2011/04/ashley-judd-soundtrack-of-misogyny.html
