Posts by Yesha Callahan:
Jay-Z Has 99 Problems But Using B*tch Ain’t One (Anymore)
January 17th, 2012Let me be the first to say, I use the word *bitch* quite often. I’ve called several women bitches in my lifetime & probably will after writing this post. Allow me to be just a tad bit double standardish for a moment. I typically equate the word bitch and it being used by women, the same way people equate the “n” word being used by white people. Sure, I can use the “b” word all I want, because I’m a woman, just like certain black people feeling that it’s ok for them to use the “n” word, but not white people. Duh. For the record, I’ve never called someone a “N” word, ending in ‘gga or ‘er.
Let me be the first (and probably not last) to say big fucking deal Jay-Z, you’re not going to use the word *bitch* any more, because Rosemary’s Baby Blue Ivy Carter has now graced the world with her presence. You’ve now vowed in your freshly penned song after the birth of Blue Ivy to never use the word:
He writes: “Before I got in the game, made a change, and got rich/ I didn’t think hard about using the word b**ch/ I rapped, I flipped it, I sold it, I lived it/ Now with my daughter in this word I curse those that give it. No man will degrade her or call her name/ I’m so focused on your future, the degradation has passed.”
So now that you’ve had a daughter, it’s no longer ok for you to use the word bitch?
Aww, how cute & sentimental.
So what would have happened if your daughter happened to be a son? Would that mean no more use of the word “nigga”, but still the freedom to use the word *bitch* regardless of you having being birthed by a mother? Having aunts and a sister?
Yeah, you must have forgot about all of those women that came before Blue Ivy. How convenient & marketable.
In all honesty, I’m not going to back bite my way out of using the “b” word now. I’m sure I’ll probably call someone bitch by the end of the week. I’m taking issue with his “jesus come to meeting” revelation after so many years of using it. I can only assume that if he hadn’t have given birth to his “prodigal daughter”, he’d still feel justified in using it.
Jay-Z has 99 problems, being a hypocrite is one.
*If by chance if this ‘poem’ or song, or whatever it is isn’t real…the bitch who wrote it sucks*
*Edited 1/18- Yup, the story is fake! Jay-Z will use “BITCH” as much as he wants:
Mariah, Jennifer, Janet & Charles: Celebrity Weight Loss Overkill
January 12th, 2012One of the first celebrities I can recall endorsing a weight loss system was Sarah Ferguson aka “Fergie The Duchess of York”. Before her endorsement of Weight Watchers and after her divorce from Prince Andrew, the 2nd son of Queen Elizabeth II, she was commonly referred to as “The Duchess of PORK”. During her “reign” as spokesperson for Weight Watchers, she also “wrote” several books that were backed by Weight Watchers. Who says you need monarchy backed dollars when you’re pulling in Weight Watchers money?
Most recently the airwaves, tv & internet have been inundated with diet commercials. From Jennifer Hudson’s god awful annoying commercials with her singing to her former fat self, to Janet Jackson’s whispery Nutri-System commercials, Mariah Carey’s “Post Dem Babies” Jenny Craig ads and finally Mr. Mumbles himself, Charles Barkley attempting to garner Weight Watchers some male clientele.
Every time I see one of these commercials I feel like Susan Powter & want to scream:
Michelle Obama Says She’s Not An Angry Black Woman
January 11th, 2012In New York Times correspondent Jodi Kantor’s new book, “The Obamas”, Kantor attempts to expose so-called tensions between Michelle Obama & White House Staffers, including Rahm Emanuel and Former Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. In a response to the book, the White House has already called it over dramatized & old news.
“The book is about a relationship between two people whom the author has not spoken to in years.… The emotions, thoughts and private moments described in the book, though often seemingly ascribed to the President and First Lady, reflect little more than the author’s own thoughts.” – (Eric Schultz, White House Associate Communications Director, The White House blog) Read the rest of this entry “