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A Girl Is Threatened With Rape In A Rap Battle, And So The Judge Steps In To Deliver His Own Verse [View all]
Set scene: A woman is on stage with her male opponent in an MC rap battle in London when all of a sudden the dude makes a rape threat. Not cool at all. The misogynistic dude tries to calm the crowd down as they look on in disgust. Then suddenly up pops visibly pissed-off BBC radio presenter Nihal, who decides to step in and rip into the rape-threat dude with his own, much better verse.
I want to be clear on two points before you watch it: 1) The young woman didn't need him to step in, but I'm appreciating this as a "see something, say something" moment, and it's great to see that others have her back in such a hostile environment. 2) The fat-shaming in his verse isn't cool either, and I wish that wasn't in there, but I still appreciate this moment of solidarity and outrage.
http://www.upworthy.com/a-girl-is-threatened-with-rape-in-a-rap-battle-and-so-the-judge-steps-in-to-deliver-his-own-verse
I want to be clear on two points before you watch it: 1) The young woman didn't need him to step in, but I'm appreciating this as a "see something, say something" moment, and it's great to see that others have her back in such a hostile environment. 2) The fat-shaming in his verse isn't cool either, and I wish that wasn't in there, but I still appreciate this moment of solidarity and outrage.
http://www.upworthy.com/a-girl-is-threatened-with-rape-in-a-rap-battle-and-so-the-judge-steps-in-to-deliver-his-own-verse
While some music--and not just rap-- is rife with violent threats against against women, and in the comments there was some defending of the lyrics because "if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen" and the invariable comparisons to murder in rap, assault in rap (sound familiar as a red herring?) no genre is a special snowflake that escapes being part of rape culture. It's too late y'all.
Rape culture is everywhere and every time you bow down to it, every time it masters you, and rape culture is a master in our society--that women or girl or child or man or baby who is being raped somewhere right as I type this--you're a part of that. You're participating with that, you're complicit with that.
I don't think we have a white knight here so much as we have someone who knew, probably instinctively, because I doubt he knows what rape culture is, knew he had a line to draw. He stepped right up to it. Good for him
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