Michel Martin brings up an interesting question about what it is black men find desirable in black women that may be killing them.
Michel here...just wanted to add a quick thought about yesterday's back of the book segment on black women and obesity. Debra Dickerson's provocative essay in Salon caught our attention. It kinda speaks for itself, but I can't help myself...it's titled, "Healthy, My A__" (fill in the blank).
She argues that part of the reason African American women are struggling with their weight are all the cultural messages telling them it's okay -- the greasy food, the shout-outs from the brothas who want to see some "junk in the trunk."
Now, it seems to me that women all over this country are struggling with weight issues -- whether it's the pressure among Hollywood starlets to be dangerously thin (Hello? Nicole Richie?) or the ballerinas before them, or black and Latina women struggling to keep their weight and blood pressure in check.
We also invited jasmyne Cannick, blogger extraordinaire to give her take. She's trying to lose weight for health reasons.
If you don't recognize the title of this blog post, it's from the funky Rick James song 'Superfreak'. If there's anything about cultural messages that are dangerous to women, it's that sluttery is OK. Feminists have muddied the waters with regard to femininity. That we even have discussions of 'gender roles' at this late date is evidence of an overreaching agenda. I mean after all how many PhDs for how many decades does it take to figure out how women ought to behave? Something's broke here and it's easy to see. That is that we have elevated looks over character, and what we expect from good looking women is bad character.
If superfreak girls are alright with you, then you're part of the problem. Speaking of which, I'm a bit too old to know, but now I do want to know what exactly is a 'dime piece'?
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