So today I was reading Model Minority's post on the relationship between Buffie The Body and Venus Hottentot, when I decided to do what I always do, being that it got me thinking about the hyper-sexualization and objectification of women from my own community. Now the other day the homeboys and I went to see Slither at the local "we don't check ID theater". In the movie, a stereotypical "redneck girl" who tries to get with the alien infected guy ends up being forced to bear alien children and what have you. So basically what happens is a cliched figure from a community whose women are stereotyped as oversexed welfare mothers falls victim to her own, well sexuality with her illegitimate baby in the room, and is eventually
turned into a giant womb and destroyed by the spawn she's forced to bear. As our friend Black Rob would say, that's whoa.
See I'm always bitching about how much it blows to be a young white working class male, but the fact is females from my background have it even worse in some cases. Every time you see one of the women from my community on television or in movies, she's either a sex fiend like the one pictured above or a morbidly obese chain smoking "giant womb". For the first stereotype, think of Daisy Duke, Joy from My Name Is Earl, or that one Jessica Simpson video. For the second, think of Cletus' wife on The Simpsons, or all the women on Maury/Montel/Springer. Now, these can both be seen as basic sexist archetypes of women that we hold in our society anyway, but in the case of the working class rural caucasian ones they're blown way out of proportion. Also not helping is the "Redneck" side of modern country music. "I'm a redneck woman, ain't no high class broad." translates directly to "I don't have enough confidence or self-esteem to resist a race/class system that hates me, so I'm going to resign myself to redneck status". Gee, with images like that in the media being the only role model for millions upon millions of young rural girls, is it any wonder they have the 2nd highest teen pregnancy rate?
The fact of the matter is, as funny as these stereotypes are, nobody thinks about the consequences that they have for young rural working class women. The basic message is, be really hot and have sex with whoever you want until say, age 20, when you get pregnant, sign up for food stamps, and resign yourself to a life of raising kids and screaming at them in either a trailer park or backwoods shack. The question is, how do the people that write all of that shit into movie and televison scripts sleep at night? You ain't gotta tell me what that causes, my little brother tells me about the effects of it that he observes on the school bus. Matter of fact, I myself observed the effects at uh every school day/dance/football game I've ever been to. Everyone who buys into these stereotypes is part of the problem. At least people with y-chromosomes from where I'm from have 2pac and Eminem to relate to. Whatever shortcomings both of them have, they're a HELL of a lot more positive than Gretchen Wilson.
The question is, where do images such as these come from. The thing is, the bakra need to feel better about themselves. Now what's the easiest way to feel better about yourself? Hate on other people. So they encourage negative stereotypes of everybody who isn't a rich white person through their control of the media. You'll notice that you can't think of any negative stereotypes of rich white people, but our folk wisom is full of unpleasant images of minorities and poor white people. The concept is that obviously nobody in the suburbs is sexually perverse, drug using, and lazy, because everybody that does that is poor and lives in either a project or a trailer park. You can't do that stuff and be rich! There's no way you'd be successful! Therefore, anybody who's poor is poor because of their own stupidity, laziness, and hypersexuality, because that's what all the poor people on television do. Why else would they be poor? So the end result is that rich white people feel better about themselves, AND they have a reason for why so much of the country is poor. It's killing two birds, and the self-esteem of millions of girls with one big rich white fat cigar smoking stone! Think about it.
Hey! What did I tell you little fags about not telling me when Mr. Lif has a new album coming out? Holy shit. Maybe you guys didn't know, but Mr. Lif is basically one of the most slept on MC's ever. These two songs cribbed from the always coming through Art Of Rhyme, are from Mo Mega, which drops June 13th.
