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Kan-ye be a fan of raping dead women?
Post by Gender Agenda:
Have you heard the latest word played on the street?
It’s been making gradual pace but looks set to make haste.
A kind of twitter revolution has been building its momentum.
Kan-ye be a fan of dead women?
Kanye West, seems to have Swift-ly moved on from the Taylor-saga to the next level of drama in his new ‘Monster’ Vid. Facebook status updates have begun to take up the cause. As a social networker, have you voiced your objection in between your updates of being hung over and sleeping outdoors?
There’s a vulture in our popular culture that feeds on the ritual humiliation and exploitation of the female population. ‘Freedom of expression’ is the cry of opposition that would seek to hypocritically enforce oppression in the name of libertion.
But Kanye’s new video steps over the vultures line by perpetrating the lyrical crime of ‘rape and pillage a village’ in graphic detail on the unresponsive females in his pimp-flick
So let’s talk about the ideologies we spin to the masses through the music franchises. Rape and exploitation is a sexist expression of the mass oppression that flows from TV screens to our streets, from police stations to limited-rape-justice for the female nation. Only a monster would find arousal from sights of women being incapacitated to their eyeballs. Monsters should never become mainstream.
Will you make a contribution to the Twitter revolution? First things first, join the word on the street and sign the petition that denounces ‘Kan-ye for being a fan of raping dead women’. Spread the word, so that your message is heard loud and clear by Universal Music Group and MTV before they release ‘the Monster.’
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As co-creator with Sharon Haywood of the petition against Kanye West’s carnival of carnage against women, I want to thank you for this. You have captured perfectly why we started this campaign. Thanks so much for your support. I’ll post this on my blog http://www.melindatankardreist.com
Thanks again.
Absolutely honoured to have you read the post!
Your blog reads like poetry! Really gets the point across and is easy to read.
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Don’t you guys realize this is EXACTLY what Kanye wanted; ‘controversy’? Controversy over music/videos help the artist sell (see: Madonna, Ice Cube, Lady Gaga etc). It’s fairly obvious Kanye doesn’t genuinely feel this way about women and is willing to do this both for the ‘artistic expression’ as well as to get a rise out of people which will inevitably lead to more buzz for the video as well as his album (which is pretty great by the way).
So yeah, this petition won’t hurt him one bit. If anything, it’ll help him.
Love it. could almost hear it rappin’ in my head!
Thanks Verina! Please do pass it on and keep the momentum against popular oppression up!
Thanks for your comments Melinda and Nicky. I’m glad you like the post.
Mel and Sharon – Thanks once again for bringing the clip out into the open before it is officially released. A great act in the fight against the messages in our societies that would seek to endorse violence, rape and oppression against women
Onwards and Upwards in the fight for equalities, not only in the workplace and the parliament, but in the very messages which permeate our minds on a hourly basis!
@ Joe – Is it really obvious ‘he didn’t mean it’? It seems a strange thing to make light of and certainly not something that SHOULD be used to engineer ‘controversy’
‘Rape and Pillage a village women and children’ are amongst the lyrics of this song…and these are very real concerns for women around the world. 1 in 10 adult women in the UK will be raped in her life (Home Office stats 2006) and 1 in3 in the world will be sexually abused ( UN MDG statistics) . The statistics are about 1 in2 or 1in 3 for rape in war zones. In whatever way these actions are being popularised – whether it be to ensue controversy and publicity- or because the artist sees this as a real form of eroticism- It is wrong and reinforces real life oppression
I will lobby to change the status quo until the cows come home and I hope others will join me because silence nourishes complancency and complacency in bigotry is not something we can afford if we really believe in a free and equal society for men and women, free from opression, free to live equal lives
Thank you so much for using your creative gifts to move the cause forward! We’ve posted it on Adios Barbie’s Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Adios-Barbie/25567278752
It’s just brilliant!
brilliant – let’s hope we can get this message across in no uncertain terms!!! keep up the brill work with Adios Barbie!