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YING YANG DEBATE!

A recent debate heated up regarding the Ying Yang Twin's Whisper Song. I was aprehensive on jumping in on the debate. But I believe my dude El Keter said everything I would have said. Alot of what he said hadn't accured to me. What yall think?

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Anyone who denies that the song is catchy and incredibly funky is only fooling themselves.

And honestly, since when is the possibility that something is "offensive" a license to dislike it?

This is just a bunch of frustrated writers trying to flex their college educated muscles by taking a stance on something they think someone like them should have grown up to believe in.

Personally I wish discussions like the ones linked would actually deal realistically with sexuality instead of manufactured sexual politics.

I know more than a few strong, educated, womb-centric ( you can call 'em feminists, womanists, etc... the type of ladies who have degrees in women's studies and who keep bell hooks books by the bedside ) women who will talk some shit in bed that is waaaayyyyy more hardcore than anything the Ying Yang Twins say on "Wait." They don't just want it beat up, they want it murdered. They're not afraid of getting what they want, giving you what you want or talking about it.

Would these "journalists/writers" say they were wrong, or offensive for their sexual desires? For thinking the thoughts they think? For saying the things they do? Would they say they advocate the rape or abuse of women? That they're somehow committing treason to their woman-ness by abandoning themselves to raw emotion and desire once in a while?

Part of me thinks they would. And I think that's why I find most of these writers way more offensive than the Ying Yang Twins.

The song doesn't need to be rationalized. It's a dirty song, with dirty lyrics, and a beat designed to make people do dirty things on the dancefloor. It doesn't even bear discussion.

What does is people's views of sexuality and gender-roles.

And that's something that I don't think anybody is capable of doing in a song, much less a couple zippy newspaper, magazine or blog articles.

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