grrrrrrls:

ALWAYS a reblog

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Marina about the response to the “How To Be a  Heartbreaker” video (x)

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provocatoria:

tranqualizer:

[gif set: two moving images pulled from missy elliot’s work it music video. in this scene missy elliot is rapping, “girls, girls, get that cash whether it’s nine to five or shaking your ass. ain’t no shame, ladies. do your thang. just make sure you’re ahead of the game.” she is throwing money in the air and in the background are two women dancing.]

fashinpirate:

I try to make it a point to put these exact lines in every paper on feminist practice i have to write because they are so good and correct 

Missy is my hometown hero always and forever. 

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holaafrica:

Even if it makes others uncomfortable, i will love who i am. 

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neon-casket:

The song is about being violently assaulted and it made me crazy for a few years. I got really paranoid walking around at night and started feeling really unsafe.

Its more about empowering myself physically amongst a masculine power, and the hate of feeling powerless, making light of masculine physical power, making it jovial and non-threatening. I took a typically violent cultural situation and made it pop and happy.

                                           -Grimes about Obllivon

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fivelettered:

sarahfonseca:

The next time you see someone with jewelry that says “trust no man,” don’t judge them for their “man hating” or “bougie” ways. Rather, commend them for their superb taste in music.

“Trust no man” is actually a reference to a reference to a 1926 song of the same name by Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, a Georgian and African-American pioneer of blues music. 

I want all you women to listen to me

Don’t trust your man no further than your eyes can see

I trusted my man with my best friend

But that was a bad bargain in the end

A feminist before there was really a term for it, Rainey was also notorious for getting into trouble with small-town authorities over her “women-only parties.” She was a brazen lady-lovin’ badass well-worthy of a 21st century signal boost.

Ma Rainey YES!

also, man hating is the least bougie thing there is. Black women been doin that for the longest. trust.

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saraadianee:

remember when baby spice sang about wearing a condom

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theuppitynegras:

youngbadmanbrown:

searchingforknowledge:

amuseoffirebane:

newvagabond:

Making a separate post of this because IT’S NOT TRUE, NOOO, STAWP SPREADING ITTTT.

Don’t mean to hijack a post to say NO U R WRONG but I keep seeing this post and that’s not what the song is about.

It’s calling the MEN the dogs because they’re running around panting and woofing at women. 

“I heard a woman shout out—who let the dogs out?”

Then we see women as dog-catchers. 

And a dog jumping up trying to get on a lady. 

“Get back cruffy, back scruffy,

Get back you flea infested mongrel”

Is meant to be a woman telling a dog (a guy) to leave her alone. 

Then there’s “to any girls callin’ them canine”. Clearly the women are calling the men dogs here. 

“Say, a doggy is nuttin’ if he don’ have a bone” HE. Doggy is nuttin’ if HE. 

“Well, if I am a dog, the party is on

I gotta get my groove ‘cause my mind done gone”

Dude’s acknowledging that he may be one of those guys at parties/clubs.

“Me and my white short shorts

And I can’t see color, any color will do

I’ll stick on you, that’s why they call me ‘Pit bull’”

He can’t see color, HE is the dog.

So don’t be crushed. It’s a song about guys acknowledging that other guys can be brazen and annoying when hitting on women when they just wanna have a ball at the club and dance. 

OH THANK GOODNESS

THANK GOODNESS

wait

did the baha-men really make a hit song addressing the harassment of women? 

well check y’all out

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