Tuesday, March 16, 2004
The Village Voice has run a sobering bit of reporting by Thulani Davis about a survey that suggests mainstream hip hop has played a role in spreading dangerously sexist attitudes and, worse, practices, among the kids who grew up on it. (Though, duh, sexism exists throughout U.S. culture. Rampantly.) Personally I think a bigger issue is the problem of how to promote sex positive attitudes (liberation and pleasure) in a world where sex can have very dangerous cosequences, which are constantly glossed over in pop culture.
