Posted on 04/28/2015 1:41:19 PM PDT by drewh
Atlhough she falsely accused a man of raping her, and refuses to protect other women by filing charges against her rapist, Lena Dunham was still honored by Variety as a sexual assault role model over the weekend. During her speech, Dunham opened things by attacking music that she claims “celebrates the exploiters and hides the exploited.”
Two wildly popular hip-hop songs were singled out by Dunham, Jay-Z’s 2000 hit “Big Pimpin’” and Three 6 Mafia’s Oscar-winning 2005 song, “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp.”
Dunham didn’t explicitly call for this kind of music to be banned. She didn’t have the courage to come out and do that. Instead she tried to achieve that goal by attacking the music and these artists as though their words were as dangerous as acts:
Here’s the tricky thing about language: it lies about how powerful it is. … [These songs] silenced and shamed the women they purported to described, and they reduced them to objects, or worse, punch-lines. They celebrated the exploiters and they hid the exploited.
Please.
Dunham claims to be an artist, and an edgy one, but in her privileged white upbringing the fact that most musical artists, including hip-hop artists, assume the role of characters in their songs appears to be lost on her. Bruce Springsteen never “got Mary pregnant” or a “job working construction for the Johnstown Company.” Tom Petty really isn’t a “bad boy, ’cause [he] don’t even miss her.”
I’ll take a hundred Madonnas over any one of these modern-day, censorious, killjoy feminists.
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Well, I can actually agree with Dunham on one thing. Wow. I am astounded.
I blame Oberlin College.
I agree with Dunham, hip hop is an abomination, in part the cause of Trayvon and Ferguson and Balitimore.
Not me. One Madonna is one too many.
We don’t need that.
Hip-hop isn’t a cause. It’s a symptom.
Even a blind pig will root up an acorn now and then.
Yeah, no kidding.
She has a face for radio.
A whore. Criticizing whore music.
Whorific. Whorifying. Whorendous.
Hmmm snow white skin, nice tattoo, a bit fat but I could care less, I would tap that.......................... NOT, thats like dating an abomination!!!
Gangster Rap is and I 100% agree, the only exception is someone like Emenem, other than that no, the whole industry can burn for all I care, I just wonder why these so called community leaders do not say something about this crap, they are apart of the problem.
There’s always Sam Kinison’s take on it on YouTube.
They had to have airbrushed that tongue.
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