Wednesday, November 24, 2010

For Colored Girls who Considered Everything as an Affront when Taking Stock is Enough

What do Tyler Perry, Tiger Woods, CDC, ABC, and Steve Harvey all have in common? If you guessed trashing black women in the media you guessed right. Was Tyler Perry serious about all those run ragged black women in for colored girls? You mean Tiger Woods couldn’t have cheated with a sister? Not one? Does he know how undesirable that makes the black woman look? CDC go away with your AIDs and Herpes rates. Dateline did you really have to go there. Again with black women being undesirable. Steve Harvey? Even fat comedians on their 8th divorce find black women laughable and are on the attack offering sage advice. I think it’s time for a (insert blog about black women haters and/or feel good commentary about all the great black women there have been to walk the face of the earth) here.

I’m sorry. Scratch all that. I don’t buy it. The black women screaming that out to get us mess are the real villains. They are in a vocal minority that draws negative attention to the whole sisterhood because they are so out of touch, delusional, and irrational that the media gods can’t help but fan the flames, because who doesn’t like to rubberneck a good crash scene? One with hysterical bystanders at that? Everyone, right? I sat in traffic for one and a half hours because of a wreck on the other side of the highway this past Tuesday. The great thing for publishers and networks is the rubbernecking round those parts lead to Neilson ratings and book sales. Cha ching.

Think about it for a second. Tyler Perry makes a movie about a bunch of black women getting ruined and destroyed by a bunch of black men. If you’re keeping score out to get us black woman, it is the good guys: black women with some pitiable flaws -1- and the bad guys: black men with no redeeming qualities -0-. Yet according to the out to get us black woman this is a movie that trashes black women. Dateline comes out with a show that interviews various sisters who talk about the short comings and inadequacies of black men as a collective. Yet, according to the out to get us black women, this was a show that trashed black women.

Noticing a theme here? No, not that black men are really the ones getting trashed publicly by black women (ya’ll can have TP since he dresses as a woman and you are his main supporters anyway). No, not that. If I were to say that the out to get us black women would probably accuse me of exercising “black male privilege” and attempting to usurp the discussion by laying claim to black male problems at the expense of the black female who never gets heard except on Oprah, Dateline, and NPR etc etc. Nope. Not going there. I’m talking about this theme: the one where the out to get us black women crazily lash out at the world instead of pausing for a second and taking stock. And yeah, I purposely used the word crazy you crazy conspiracy theorists you. I digress, the theme is unaccountability*. Don’t believe me?

Remember when some government and non profit agencies studying STD’s, obesity, economics, and family structures uncovered higher rates of morbidity, broke-ness, and knocked up-ness, respectively, for black women than those of other races and genders? Remember when the out to get us black women argued something was up with the timing and veracity of these reports? Like the CDC, you know, that massive clusterfuck of red-tape filled with locked in the labratory mad scientists government agency that takes ten years and a signature from someone appointed by the President to replace an empty ink jet cartridge actually waited for Steve Harvey's latest book to drop the bad news that Black women stay losing with the Herps.

Really out to get us black women? Grasp at straws much? Get real!

If I actually believed the feminist college survey course syllabi the out to get us black women re-circulate to those of us that took real classes never took the course about black women being the lowest on the hierarchy of patrilineal hetero homo sexual normative judeo Christian jabberwocky, then I'd know nobody cares enough about the black woman to plot out her demise by pin prick through the media. Through trite entertainment and vapid statistical studies, much less.

I went to my homies house this weekend and he was talking about the pledge process for Southern University's marching band. Telling me as much as he could anyway. And he was saying the kids that complained the most caught the most grief. No one liked a whiny bitch, so they would beat their ass more so he would quit or man up and change his ways. Black women are getting hazed right now, as the media tends to do from time to time. They do it to groups, individuals and countries. Right now these out to get us black women are complaining the most. Complaining so much the notion of “woman-ing up” and actually dealing with some of the concerns these “media bashings” raise is falling on a lot of deaf ears.

And its jacked up because I know for a fact most black women don’t give a fuck about this stuff and even if they do are open minded enough to at least consider whats being said. But these out to get us chicks is effing it up for all yall. Long as they keep the crash scene spectacular with narcissist level paranoia and denial and pseudo intellectual histrionics, all black women will continue to get the medias two by four upside their backside. Politicians and athletes and even some countries learned this shit a long time ago. A.) Ignore it it'll eventually go away. Or B.) Apologize and act contrite, it'll go away. Or C.)Change the news with something positive. But if it really is sucking for you absolutely do not fight it by engaging in a drawn out battle.

Fucked up as Chris Brown handled that Rihanna situation, it would've been worse if someone caught him angrily throwing chairs screaming I am not a woman beater it was in self defense! But that seems to be the path the out to get us black women took. What better way to deny the charges of undesirability than to exhibit traits people find undesirable in women: irrational argumentation and combativeness. And there it is. I hear them now, “Way to go bitter black dude for blaming the victim.” No! Actually, it’s time you finally stfu out to get us black women. Next time I hear your mouth I want it to be you telling me how your complain and whine them into submission strategy worked out for you.


*Note to readers: could a non-out to get us black woman actually familiar with the word accountability let me know if unaccountability is a word. Thanks.

2 comments:

  1. Lol...I don't think unaccountability isn't but unaccountably is a word.

    I enjoyed this read. you are one a few who tredge this subject with objectivity. And I appreciate that. Love the post. Love your insight. Not sure what I'll find walking the remainder of these halls. But the fact you're not shoving all sisters in an unattractive bundle of angry evil is a plus.

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  2. I agree with the Op. Ms Utiful, school is out. So, there is no need to correct spelling on this topic. Women that come on these type of topics are usually pissed at the OP for calling folk out on the B.S.

    Women, men on youtube, here and in public are trying to help you all with advice on this dating complication in the black community. It is time to listen and pay attention instead of correcting spelling for a topic that you are familiar with in the first place.

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