Is Hip Hop responsible for calling women bi**hes and h**s?

Hip hop is getting attacked largely because Imus said that the statement he made started in the black community. And that we use it all the time etc.





The word hoe, mainly started in the south as just a lazy proouncation of the word whore. Wh ore was used over 75 times in Shakespeare and close to a hundred times in the Bible. There's even a play from 1663 called "Tis Pity She's a Wh ore". It has always been a negative word meant the same throughout history. It was used in movies, etc. Why is it now that black men are saying it, we're the ones responsible? Hip Hop is a perspective on our cultures. It's about the things we like, the perspectives, and they don't target individual groups like a female basketball team. Hip hop is entertainment, just like movies are entertainment. Why aren't they being held responsible? If you talk about hip hop videos exploiting women, what about movies, or adult magazines, etc. It's entertainment and falls under free speech. Just my take what about you?

Is Hip Hop responsible for calling women bi**hes and h**s?
Thank you! Dang, 4 hours have passed and no one wanted to touch your question. Why? Because YOU SPOKE THE TRUTH and people would rather bask in their own ignorance.





Let me add even more to your comment. I am close to an athlete who was popular. The things I have seen women (both white and black) do just to get attention from the jocks and celebs is absolutely ho-ish. Yes, I do have issues with the rappers who imply all women are ho*s, but most of them are really speaking about ho*s they have encountered (and not women). As long as fast women exist in their everyday world, cocking their legs up everytime the man gets a hit on the charts, don't expect them NOT to rap about ho*s. OutKast called these women out, and made sure they let their listeners know they were NOT talking about all women. We talk about how many men have victimized women with sexism, but what about the fast tail women who intercourse these men, get the money, sometimes lying, and go through the whole town of rich men, too lazy to work on her own. Just laying up with any man who has a little cash. Not to mention these children which they birth out of greed they destroy because of their own addiction to sugardaddies. Hum....I would call that a h*. And most people would too. I mean what positive word do you have for a woman who sleeps with a variety of men for status? When h**s stop existing, rappers will stop rapping about them.





People just try to point fingers at everyone else to excuse thier own crap. I am sick of it. Yes, I will defend ALL women who are called out of their character and are insulted without deserving the negative title. But I refuse to defend skanky women who try sleep with any man whether married or not just to get some cash. It don't work like that. In order to get respect, you have to earn it. NO I don't care much for h* lyrics, but I know exactly where it comes from. I have seen all kinds of races, male and females being the description of the word. Instead, people need to call out the hook*r behavior of both men and women with lack of sexual self control, then maybe we can get progress.
Reply:You make an excellent point.





Clearly a double-standard is being


applied when this term has been used


by different groups historically-speaking.





In addition, it's high time that many people


also became aware of the fact that


there is absolutely *no such thing* as a


singular, homogenous "black community”





Instead, there are many, many different


varieties of “communities” which have


been labeled as being "black" and there


are a great deal of diversity of opinions and


types of people found within each of them.





Thus, many matters -- such as Rappers, etc.


--- are *not*, in the least bit, "representative"


of "all" or even "most" of the wide variety of


very diverse "black communities" which exist


throughout the United States of America.





An excellent resource is the book:





"DONT BELIEVE THE HYPE: -- Fighting


Cultural Information about African-Americans"





(-- written by Newsweek and Meet the


Press correspondent, 'Ferai Chideya')





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