{"id":1582,"date":"2007-04-14T15:22:04","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T22:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2007-04-14T15:22:04","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T22:22:04","slug":"double-standard-for-free-speech-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1582","title":{"rendered":"Double Standard for Free Speech (II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quoth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulipgirl.com\" title=\"TulipGirl\">TulipGirl<\/a> on my <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1581\" title=\"Double Standard for Free Speech\">Double Standard for Free Speech<\/a> post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And then there is another double standard\u00e2????that in which other entertainers (comedians and rappers come to mind readily) say racist and degrading things regularly, and are rewarded with record contracts and adoring fans and not held accountable. As they should be, and as Imus was.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree most heartily.<\/p>\n<p>While lying awake last night listening to CNN Headline News, I heard about some in the music industry defending the use of racial and gender-based slurs toward women in music, saying that they should be standing with Imus instead of going against him.  According to Russell Simmons, &#8220;hiphop is a phenomena that transcends race&#8230;&#8221;  Ummm&#8230; no.<\/p>\n<p>What makes it right for rappers and hiphop stars to use the N-word, call women &#8220;ho&#8217;s&#8221;, and have scantily clad women making suggestive movements in their videos, yet at the same time call for Imus to be fired for the comments he made about the Rutgers women&#8217;s basketball team?  Either words are simply words or we have a serious double standard here that needs to be rectified.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> I remember being in middle school, high school, and college and having the guys at my schools make nasty comments toward me and other girls based on the lyrics of whatever song was popular at the time.  I also remember feeling contempt and disgust for one of my classmates in high school (who was seriously clueless) when she started reciting lyrics to various songs that degraded women.  (This is the same person that saw <em>Titanic<\/em> at least 10 times hoping that the last time she saw it, the boat wouldn&#8217;t sink.  Needless to say, I was quite happy when I graduated and got the heck away from this moron.)  I&#8217;m sorry&#8230; you don&#8217;t get to have it both ways.  Either get rid of the &#8220;back that @$$ up girl&#8221; lyrics or stop being surprised when people outside the hip hop community use your words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoth TulipGirl on my Double Standard for Free Speech post: And then there is another double standard\u00e2????that in which other entertainers (comedians and rappers come to mind readily) say racist and degrading things regularly, and are rewarded with record contracts &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1582\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,11,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-media","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-pw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}