Penderonisha

Afeni Shakur, black power militant and mother of rapper 2pac has passed. RIP.

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I went awf a lil bit cuz it’s the weekend and I have time. Go see this Twitter thread if u feel like it: https://twitter.com/Penderonisha/status/726235558087917568 Have a ball. @penderonisha

I feel like the issue with Erykah Badu’s comments, or atleast my issue with Badu’s comments, was that she put on women’s shoulders the burden of not tempting men with their clothing while men were entirely vindicated and our predatory tendencies were justified with “boys will be boys” and that’s not right. It’s not about teaching girls/ women to cover up to avoid sexual assault, it’s about teaching boys/ men not to sexually assault. Despite Erykah tryna sprinkle her traditional spiritual “baduism” on it, it still came off as “niggas can’t help but wanna fuck so cover up girls so u won’t tempt them” and what kind of message is that to send? Men need to be taken to task. Whether butt naked or wearing a blanket, men don’t have any sexual rights to a woman’s body and that needs to be hammered into their heads from young. Less time should be spent on telling girls to layer up and more on teaching boys to control their urges. What resonates with me most about her comments, however, is how they reveal that even Badu, the queen of all things “woke” and personal idol of many natural-haired women isn’t impervious to the anti- woman respectability politics that are the unwritten law of the land; politics bent on the protection of men and justification of sexual violence against women.

Took the title of this book way to seriously