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Mos Def calls out Lil' Jon "Our priorities is gettin' fucked. Lil Jon-I love his music. But why are the East Side Boyz names Big Sam and Lil Bo? What the fuck? What's next, Kunta and Kinte? The South should know better. This is the same country that ran up in Fred Hampton's crib and shot him in bed with his pregnant wife. You think the rules changed cause niggas got No. 1 records? What are we supposed to tell our kids? After Malcolm, Martin and Dubois we got Sam-Bo? I'm supposed to be down with that 'cause it makes me dance?" [...] "Paris Hilton don't really care about ya'll niggaz, man. She can't even hear ya'll niggaz. I'm just keeping it real. This shit is entertainment to them. We're adopting their morals like we them and we never been them. We don't have the same struggle. Dudes is no more than 20 years removed from real poverty. For dudes to have this much access to money and it's not translating to people power, its inexcusable..." Subscribe Buttons                    | ||
Is Big "Boys" an Anachronistic and Sexist Term?
Especially in an article that deals with efforts in which a woman is a primary player, is it appropriate to describe the milieu as "playing with the big BOYS"? I would think that part of moving into the 21st Century would be the adoption of language that reflects the new power women are achieving in American society. In the 21st Century, moving among the powerful means "playing with the big boys AND GIRLS". And it's about time!
Maybe a better metaphor would be "playing with the big kids", which is gender neutral and maintains sense of the phrase without maintaining the inherent sexism of the past usage.
"Only after we change that which seemed essential do we realize how natural the "new normal" really is and how inevitable it always was."
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