being straightened & the short dress. Ok, that's one of the threads I'm recalling but also stuff in GD & here about Janelle & her appearance which have guys like maxx, cynthia, brooklyn, etc. in them freaking out too. But shit, I'm a fan of Destiny's Child & Drake so: imcvspl, hi.

>And you can feel free to call my freak out sexist or
>whatever, but its consistent and from on singular place....
>how is Janelle as a role model for my nine year old daughter
>who adores the fuck out of her. My parenting style sees pop
>images passing through my filter before (or at least while)
>they get to my kids. Even when they don't my kids have the
>habit of coming back to me for context. So by example they
>love the fuck out of Dance Apocalyptic but have never seen the
>video (too much going on for them to properly contextualize).

So, your freak out replete w/ sexism comes from being a dad to a young daughter (a Black girl or girl of color I presume) that is lightweight infatuated w/ Janelle Monae??

>My hyperbolic reaction post about Janelle looking like RHOA
>was me thinking okay how am i going to contextualize that type
>of shift for my daughter, who went out and bought a whole fit
>to match Janelle's black and white? Fotunately I was
>overreacting (which I laughed about with others in that post).
> I knew I was overreacting when I posted it.

Her use of the black & white uniform marked the shift, no? When she was down w/ DF she wore "normal" clothes & had curly texturized natural hair. Janelle been changing clothes/hairstyles but hey, you admit that you overreacted (unlike most) so ok.
Also, this is kinda blowing my mind & making me see parallels between the "uh oh" feeling you were expressing & the disavowal of Miley by white dads w/ young daughters.
They too lamented how they were going to explain to their daughters why they couldn't listen to her music/watch her videos anymore.
Hmm.



>Point being feel free to jump to whatever conclusions about
>me, but I'll own my shit, just speak to me directly about it.

LoL, ok.

>Something I'll just drop here. My daughter loves Q.U.E.E.N.,
>play it ten times in a row type love. She's never been a fan
>of rap, but this weekend she tells me that she really likes
>Janelle's rap at the end. I probe her to see if she
>understood the lyrics, and she's like nah. So we make an
>exercise of it, writing the lyrics down, highlighting the
>words (and people) she doesn't understand. Going to spend a
>whole week breaking it down and really getting into the
>meaning. That's what I love about who Janelle is in my
>daughter's life, and at least until she's a teenager I hope
>Janelle doesn't compromise that.

^^last sentence isn't clear & Idw assume so Imma ask...
Iyo, who is Janelle in your daughter's life?
We ALL compromise everyday (including Janelle), so what specifically is it that you hope Janelle doesn't compromise until your daughter is a teenager?