>no trina?
>no lil kim?
>no eve?
>no vita?
>no video-ho (upandcomingactress)?

never thought of it that way.

>
>why am i only coming up
>with rappers as opposites of
>the (i wanna say feminist
>but i don't know if
>they would all consider themselves
>feminists) spectrum?

good question...

> and why are most of
>these females so closely associated
>with a group of males?
>

because the music business is a male dominated business, particularly on the record label ownership and production side.

but that's probably only part of it.

many of the women mentioned above didn't grow up with fathers. for instance, little kim's almost unnatural attachment to Biggie (check her interviews) might have been because she did not have a father or a positive father figure to help her grow (yes, i do think that a father can help a girl grow into a woman....but NOT in the same way a mother can AT ALL)

i'm not saying that all women who grow up without a father end up like lil kim/trina/etc. however.

my dad once said that when he sees a girl dressed like a hoochie it's because there was not a man around to tell them that they didn't need to dress like that to attract men. perhaps he's correct.

>personally, i wanna see lil kim
>and 'nem on one side
>of a panel while queen
>latifah is the moderator with
>erybody else on the other
>side of the panel, and
>add Joan Morgan to loryn's
>list. the reason i
>want to see that is
>so those involved can maybe
>see themselves within each other...

OH!!!!!
this would be so sweet.

btw--everybody go and visit www.blackgrrrlrevolution.org

amazing neofeminism site.

-loryn

"I love this land. I'm not crazy about the nation."--Alice Walker

I stopped combing my mind so my thoughts could lock--Saul Williams

SPRING 2002--LORYN'S PRODUCTION OF NTOZAKE SHANGE'S SPELL #7...IT'S COMING.

i'm an okayoungin.