They dance and strip for free while some jerk-off makes a fortune selling videos of them. Looking dumbfounded when she learned that the girls don't get paid for their exposure, Oprah remarked, "Okay, that really is stupid." No kidding.
But, wait! It gets worse. It is not just that women are exploiting their bodies "for free", they are forking out tons of money to look like all the women they see on television. Oprah had four teenagers from Florida on the show. These young girls spend thousands of dollars to imitate celebrity styles and one is already planning on getting breast implants. Are these young women just a rare exception? Come on. Who hasn't spent a ridiculous amount of money on highlights, or bikini waxes, or some other please-make-me-be-sexy type thing?
We are literally buying into our oppression. People are profiting off the exploitation of girls and women, and then taking our money as we each try to add up to the narrow formula of sexy that bombards us.
It is racist to say "Pimp" is a black word
I mean, c'mon, there have been chulos de puta in every country, within every race and developed in every culture.
Why the hell would you want to make the word "pimp" a black word only?
The only rationale for such a comment is that you indeed want pimps only to perpetuate the stereotype and stay in the victimhood business.
i mean, come the fuck off the high horse dude, on this one (as in some other posts) you are waaaay off-base.
yes, there is a lot of oppression and shit we as a society have not dealt with. but with the black and colored communities we have to be very, very careful of perpetuating our oppression by playing the victim card. it's the same with women when they claim mysogyny. there's a fine line between decrying oppression and ennabling it. holland, a lot of the time you are servant of the master you so eagerly condemn.
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