Stat Quo vs the Conflicted Feminist

 
Stat Quo was aired out this week by Lauren Carter, a Boston Globe writer who he pressured for phone sex during an interview. Writes Carter:

Almost from jump, Stat started querying me about the possibility of having phone sex, repeatedly asking whether or not I use a vibrator and telling me, when I asked him where he was, that he was “in Bangladesh, bangin’ the flesh.”

After Stat got me up to speed on the sordid details of his life - including how many groupies he’d had relations with while on tour in Boston last year - I did get some answers out of him. Most were counterproductive to promoting the CD or himself. When I asked why and how he got involved with the project, his answer was “Money. Money, Lauren. Do you like money, Lauren? Do you?”

When I directed questions to Obie and Alchemist - who stayed mostly quiet during Stat’s outbursts, occasionally laughing - Stat would chime in with vulgarities, such as informing me that Alchemist was defecating while on the phone with me.

Carter shoots her story in the foot by beginning with the admittance that she supports hip-hop from rappers who degrade woman, even though it goes against her own moral standards. Like many of the female journalists I know, Carter plays the role of Conflicted Feminist, a woman who wants to stand up against misogyny in music, but is defeated by her booty, which shakes uncontrollably whenever the DJ drops a Nelly song.

Even worse, Carter ends the piece on a powerless note, having decided that a call to the record label won't change a thing. I get the feeling that she doesn't believe her printed account of the call will move people either, a strange mindset for a person to have who earns their daily bread off of making words work.

With women running media outlets like BET, Vibe, and SOHH I'm surprised they collectively let the rappers get away with many of the things they say. Let a rapper try to harrass even a small town DJ, and a boycott against his record will spread across states, word to Young Buck. Woman have that same power, but don't even know it.

Tara Henley writes that a weed carrier like Stat needs more media training in order to know not to sexually harass a woman who interviews him. I think that women in the industry need media training to know what to do when they're sexually harased, because the Conflicted Feminist play isn't going to cut it.

Comments

[Dread]

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[Nubianem]

Feminism has been the greatest contributor to genocide against Black people since the slave trade.

Since 1975, feminists promotion of abortion and infanticide has contributed to the abortion of about 18 million Black babies.

Feminism has contributed to the fact that about 70 percent of Black females are not married.

Feminism has contributed to the breakup of the Black family because 'feminists' at the welfare/childsupport enforcers have promoted separation of children from their fathers -- and the ripping off of the pockets of fathers.

FEMINISM IS THE GREATEST ENEMY OF THE BLACK RACE.

FEMINISM IS THE OTHER ARM OF WHITE SUPREMACY -- THE MOST DANGEROUS ARM, THE MOST SNEAKY AND THE ARM THAT HAS DONE MORE HARM TO BLACK PEOPLE AFTER THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE.

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[oh-snap]

First interesting post in a while, unfortunate that the comments speak volumes of the blog's readers.

[Jene]

First of all, WOMEN is the plural for woman. Wow. Strunk and White is a great tool, if you are indeed a "writer".

Secondly, what do you care about how conflicted a feminist she is?
Are you insulted because you are a feminist yourself? Is being a conflicted feminist the same as being black and using the N-word?
If I was white, would it be my place to even ask you that last question? If you answer yes, then please apply the same logic to your diagnosis, "conflicted feminist". Unless you have a vagina, it's not even your business.

[John Pasmore]

This post takes an axe to logic. I did not read the original article and actually it doesnt sound that interesting to warrant doing it now.

People of color and people generally should be offended by misogyny. I believe we all have mothers, so if chicks who like to dance to music makes you think women are conflicted, well singing songs is not the most impactful event that can happen. I can let that slide.

But there's crime, there's discrimination, and other forms of misogyny that are uglier and more brutal. No human being lives 100% on the straight and narrow and human's, not being robots, mature, live, learn, and sometimes just change their minds. People have contradictions. But that's no excuse for misogyny. Or racism.

[aulelia]

I'm late with the commenting but wow, how ignorant is Nubianem?? Feminism is IMPORTANT. Why are men like him threatened by black women empowering themselves?

I thought this post was informative but why are you going after the writer? Women constantly have to struggle and fight because of their gender because of the patriarchy we live in. Stat Quo in that interview was exerting his 'verbal penis' power. It is highly embarrassing that you can try to chastise her for just doing her JOB.

Good blog but come on, conflicted feminist? That is not fair. Many women are feminists and love hip hop. It is possible.

[uh]

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