So true. I especially get upset when people complain about films that portray real events or the "dumb" black person that's interviewed on the news. I haven't seen this because I'm not a TP fan; I'll wait a little bit longer.
FCG was perfectly DREADFUL! The horrid writing, directing - not 2 mention the racially specific abridged title that more than suggests a monolithic horror where colored boys R concerned. Perry even added the obligatory DL 1 dimensional character 2 further perpetuate the myth that most colored girls with aids get it from bisexual colored men.
BAD BAD MOVIE. Perry has DUMBED DOWN a huge portion of a generation that would not know a good film if 1 hit them on the head. I did a vid on it 2.
@TruthSerum101 As you can imagine, I saw the movie entirely differently. I am used to NOT seeing myself on screen and sort of filtering through the characters, so I am not insulted- as you seem to be- at the flatness of certain characters. Ever notice how flat women are in mainstream movies? Probably not because it's so normal, and that's why this movie scratched so many people the wrong way. If we named every Julia Roberts flick 'For White Girls' would it be any different from the facts?
@diepiriye U take issue with Beyonce's image yet U're okay with this crap? Maybe sexuality plays a role in this. Maybe some gay men perceive themselves as "others". Maybe some don't feel like "1 of the boys". I'm not sure. N Tyler's case, I doubt that he has ever dated a woman. Maybe straight and/or bisexual men R more likely 2 B sensitive 2 the MONOLITHIC monstrous portrayals N this flick. I would never treat a woman that way. My father never treated my mother that way.
@TruthSerum101 I think that you're getting way ahead of yourself. To be honest. I can say that being gay and learning to be comfortable with myself has often made me much more sensitive thab the straight people around me who seem too bogged down by how they are represented. I don't see a rainbow of black male images around me, & those that I do see never make the personal changes seen in this movie. I am sorry that you failed to see the healing that takes place in this film, the sisterhood.
@diepiriye The healing? But at whose expense? Film after fim where an entire cast of sympathetic black women are gathered and their primary source of pain is monstrous black men? Oh, HELL NO! I will not carry that. That is not who I am. Black men are too vulnerable to withstand these unbalanced portrayals. Not only do we die first but we are as disposable as Pampers to many people. For me, that film was more malignant than healing.
@TruthSerum101 I guess we must have two separate films collections, but for sure I've seen so few films that reflect my experience in any positive way. Probably any movie you;d name as showing Black men in a more positive light still has just n=enough homophobia to make sure that I know that it's not me being reflected/projected. So, yes, even for me, ow that you've pressed me to think about it, this film was healing, No, I know few Black men like those in FGC, but just enough to know it's true.
@diepiriye You know a black man who forced his daughter to have babies with a white guy so they could have pretty babies? That film really WENT FAR - especially with the anachronisms.
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Holy James Baldwin! Tyler Perry is actually round here healing folks - even Tulane grads! Oy!!!!
@TruthSerum101 Also, I enjoy what you produce for Youtube & don't always, or even often agree with what you have to say. I hope, however, that this does not have to make you & I start looking at each other through stereotypes, especially when we've never met face to face. THAT is monolithic. You'll have noticed that others have started to suggest that gayness makes us somehow suckers (smile) & uncritical- yes, that's what you've implied- tho I'm not sure that you've thought through that comment.
@diepiriye Monolithic? I rarely paint in absolutes. I said, SOME GAY MEN. Some guys who have no interest in women beyond the platonic, might not be as offended by the portrayal of men abusing women because they don't feel included in that demographic. I addressed this from another angle in my video by having Whoopi say that she found gay men 2 B nonthreatening.
@TruthSerum101 I have to be honest & tell you that the way that you addressed me initially was very monolithic, perhaps in the same way that you saw the film as such. I'm gay and Black, so I've never had the luxury of seeing good or bad images of those like me onscreen. We're just not there, and I could name those rare occasions off the top of my head. So, for me, FCG didn't even attempt to show 'black men' but THOSE men who were black. And mostly society failed all the characters, so Americans?
@TruthSerum101 Also, please let us not argue over whether or not your comment towards me was monolithic. You have your view, & as the intended receiver, I actually see your attitude towards trying to figure out if we're "1 of the boys" stands in "a toxic template from" bad treatment from Black men. "It's an accumulative toll." but not one that blinds me to the Black men in my life that reciprocate my love and care. But, we, too, are damaged and in need of healing. It ain't gonna be televised.
"Ego damaged by ONE movie" - You haven't been paying attention, let me REFRESH your memory: "Color Purple","Monster's Ball", "Precious", "The Blind Side", "For colored girls" etc.We live in an unfortunate age where BW (and YOU!) are buying into this black degeneracy that is constantly portrayed on screen.Spike has never depicted black people in a negative light in his movies, whereas Tyler Perry has been making the same movie for the last five years. It is sickening.
@ezekielthemack That's my point. Spike has how many movies with positive Black male roles? Too many to count just now. And yet look at how often Black women are just candy in his films. Yes, that's the truth, & you know it! In almost all of his films, women, including his own sister's roles, are just there to utter a few words & prove the guy is straight! If you don't like Tyler Perry, that's one thing, & yes, he's still stuck on re-making the Color Purple, but with all the Black best friends...
@diepiriye I don't think the women in Jungle Fever, Mo' Better Blues and most of his other movies were "eye candy". The bottom line is that Spike has NOT made millions depicting black degeneracy (male or female) and black minstrelsy the way that Tyler Perry has. You are the embodiment of what most of white America wants most black men to become: A gay unassertive black male. In your case they have succeeded and the fact that you cannot see the logic of my argument speaks volumes.
@ezekielthemack That's right, it's all about me. 'Cause I'm bossy? And you even carry my dad's name. If you want to have sensible engagement, then let's if not, then let's leave it at that. I just don't need your bullying, and that's all you're trying to do here.
@ezekielthemack Just re-reading your comments. It's sad that we cannot disagree agreeably. I have my own theories about why individuals - & we as a people- need to tear someone down just to make our point. Perhaps the Internet makes it too easy to say things that we would think through had we met face-to-face. Still, & perhaps it's just b/c I was raised by southerners, I have no issues disagreeing with someone strongly, but still respecting their opinion as their truth, & letting that be ok.
@ezekielthemack I didn't realize it at first, but your comment just set off a light bulb in my head. He does PROMOTE degeneracy when it comes to the depiction of African Americans. It really is unfortunate. I think black people should stop promoting his work, ESPECIALLY OPRAH. I know it will be hard because he shares the same skin color, however it is very much necessary.
@morningafter86 OK, Hill Harper is there, too, and fly as ever. But to be real, all the men in this flic are quite fly - that is if you can get past their characters. Instead of boycotting Tyler, we'd better form a critique around him, to help him improve, as we can see happens with each film. We're not such a damaged people that these films doom us, and on the other side we gain so much more than mainstream Hollywood gives. We have the power to form the conversations around these films.
@diepiriye My question would be, why does it seem that director Spike Lee finds it so difficult to get funding for his films when in comparison he does not adhere to the negative stereotypes the media has placed on blacks. His films are much more empowering then Tyler Perry's, I mean he illustrates our struggles but he does it in a tasteful manner without consistently uplifting one gender and demoting the other. He equally shows the faults of both whereas Tyler Perry tries to appease black women
@morningafter86 I think that there is no secret why the majority culture in America likes to watch us act crazy - it makes them feel normal & makes the power disparity seems justified. If we are stupid, then of course we are poor and in prisons, etc. Also, Spike is no saint, though I agree that his films, thus far, have been far more profound in their critique. Save for a few, most of Spike's films' women are as flat as the men in FCG. Still, I think that there is room for a Tyler, SPike & more.
@diepiriye And this is just my personal opinion but I really think he is selling himself short by dressing up like a woman, and an overweight, loudmouthed, attitudinal, unbearable one at that. Those are ALL STEREOTYPES placed on black people, and he knows this yet he continues to manifest it. To me Madea serves no real purpose except for comedy relief but it distracts from the overall message he tries to illustrate in his films. Hollywood promotes degeneracy and so does he, so I guess he is
@morningafter86 Of course he's selling himself short, but it's not just him. Shanaynay? Flip WIlson? Eddie Murphy? How many black men have ridden black women's bodies to fame? And that's not to speak of how black gay men are made to look in black comedy in general, so I guess I'm used to trying to see past it, yet giving loving critique and not just laughing, but really demanding that they do more. Sometimes they do. I'm not a fire & forget kinda guy, b/c there is always more than meets the eye.
@diepiriye But there is a difference between Tyler Perry and the Eddie Murphy, Flip Wilson types. Tyler Perry writes, produces,casts and directs his own films. He has room to implement POSITIVE images of us, whereas Eddie Murphy stars in films written, directed, casted, and produced by white people. So it boggles my mind that he has power but doesn't exercise it. I think because he employs alot of black people we tend to turn the other cheek, BUT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
@morningafter86 Great points. A good example would be the radio show Smiley & West that I am listening to right now. Tavis Smiley & Cornel West give Obama serious grief. But for sure, they speak about him & his presidency wholly differently than the folks at Fox. What's the difference? Listen for yourself - but what I hear is that maturity NOT to tear one another down just to be critical. There's a huge area b'twn hating on him vs. blind worship. Tyler's got issues, but he's not the anti-Christ.
@diepiriye By no means do I criticize Tyler Perry out of disgust, but from genuine concern about he portrayal of people who look like me, and to make him a better playwright. I think Tyler Perry has ENORMOUS amount of talent.However personally I just think he is not utilizing his talent and this opportunity he has been given in the right way (most of the time).
And I should start watching Tavis Smiley more often, his program is excellent from what I hear.
@diepiriye Here is my thing if he makes it a point to create a threshold for blacks in America who want to break into the movie industry,then show diversity, show "Hollywood" that we can be more than overweight, gangbanging, ignorant, mouth pieces. Because that is why they type cast us. The more positive images he showcases the more it will become common to see us in that light, and the more we will begin to chip away at the stereotypes placed on us.
@morningafter86 I just do not want us to continue to tear down each one of us who has any success, because we treat them like they carry the whole responsibility to 'represent'. I agree with what you see in Madea, but we tend to become so harsh as to discourage one another when we could offer loving critique. Just look at the comments here, particularly from Truthserum101. It's too easy to hate on us b/c the majority culture has already shown us how. But critique & encouragement is different.
I haven't seen it and to be honest its due to embarrassment, Im tired of "these kinds" of movies for "us". Its so air dirty laundry for naught...no matter how deep our pains are in life, in the media it plays as "oh my these poor soulful negroes" I want to see more "Havplenty'" and "Best Man" Give me a romantic gothic movie with nothing but US in it looking dignified and regal and speaking in old english. If art truly imitates life, lets throw some new realities on screen.
I read the book when I was in HS, I have never seen the play, and you have given the most "positive" review, out of everyone else! I was told not to pay to see it, but besides that, I have to give it some time for everyone to get through it. I am quite sensitive to things!
@AfroMohawkable Yes, I was watching it again and it occurred to me that to see Hill as a victim is again that flimsy ego thing. I also wish there were more men like him on screen and in real life- has you seen his book!?! Hill Harper is no joke- he really LOVES Black women as sisters.
I totally did not see Hill Harper's character as powerless. I find it so sad that when a Black man is portrayed as sensitive and gentle that he is viewed as powerless. He chose to love his wife no matter (the infertility issue) what and have her back.
We should encourage this more in our men-instead of just hyper masculinity and sexuality.
@EbonyNewsChannel Abused? That's a big word and means a lot of things. Short answer: there were times when kids made me feel very unsafe, and times when I felt betrayed by adults who should have known better.
@EbonyNewsChannel I'm from Louisville, I can pretty much tolerate gruesomeness on the way to school, and misery by the time school's out, and still find time to play with friends (smile).
@rosesdiary Hey, thanks. I really got a lot out of this movie, from the styling to the story, etc. I'm a sucker for these ensemble movies (like Crash, for example). I've heard women around me talk about the play all my life & sadly had never seen it, so I feel totally blessed that it's on screen.
2 things: Janet Jackson looks & sounds like Michael; this ironically feeds into her role with a man who's confused about his gender identity, too.
If your ego is so easily damaged by one movie...
So true. I especially get upset when people complain about films that portray real events or the "dumb" black person that's interviewed on the news. I haven't seen this because I'm not a TP fan; I'll wait a little bit longer.
lavinder11 1 year ago
@lavinder11 One movie? Are you serious? FCG is the latest result of a toxic template from Hollywood. It's an accumulative toll.
TruthSerum101 1 year ago
FCG was perfectly DREADFUL! The horrid writing, directing - not 2 mention the racially specific abridged title that more than suggests a monolithic horror where colored boys R concerned. Perry even added the obligatory DL 1 dimensional character 2 further perpetuate the myth that most colored girls with aids get it from bisexual colored men.
BAD BAD MOVIE. Perry has DUMBED DOWN a huge portion of a generation that would not know a good film if 1 hit them on the head. I did a vid on it 2.
TruthSerum101 1 year ago
@TruthSerum101 As you can imagine, I saw the movie entirely differently. I am used to NOT seeing myself on screen and sort of filtering through the characters, so I am not insulted- as you seem to be- at the flatness of certain characters. Ever notice how flat women are in mainstream movies? Probably not because it's so normal, and that's why this movie scratched so many people the wrong way. If we named every Julia Roberts flick 'For White Girls' would it be any different from the facts?
diepiriye 1 year ago
@diepiriye U take issue with Beyonce's image yet U're okay with this crap? Maybe sexuality plays a role in this. Maybe some gay men perceive themselves as "others". Maybe some don't feel like "1 of the boys". I'm not sure. N Tyler's case, I doubt that he has ever dated a woman. Maybe straight and/or bisexual men R more likely 2 B sensitive 2 the MONOLITHIC monstrous portrayals N this flick. I would never treat a woman that way. My father never treated my mother that way.
TruthSerum101 1 year ago
@TruthSerum101 I think that you're getting way ahead of yourself. To be honest. I can say that being gay and learning to be comfortable with myself has often made me much more sensitive thab the straight people around me who seem too bogged down by how they are represented. I don't see a rainbow of black male images around me, & those that I do see never make the personal changes seen in this movie. I am sorry that you failed to see the healing that takes place in this film, the sisterhood.
diepiriye 1 year ago
@diepiriye The healing? But at whose expense? Film after fim where an entire cast of sympathetic black women are gathered and their primary source of pain is monstrous black men? Oh, HELL NO! I will not carry that. That is not who I am. Black men are too vulnerable to withstand these unbalanced portrayals. Not only do we die first but we are as disposable as Pampers to many people. For me, that film was more malignant than healing.
TruthSerum101 1 year ago
@TruthSerum101 I guess we must have two separate films collections, but for sure I've seen so few films that reflect my experience in any positive way. Probably any movie you;d name as showing Black men in a more positive light still has just n=enough homophobia to make sure that I know that it's not me being reflected/projected. So, yes, even for me, ow that you've pressed me to think about it, this film was healing, No, I know few Black men like those in FGC, but just enough to know it's true.
diepiriye 1 year ago
@diepiriye You know a black man who forced his daughter to have babies with a white guy so they could have pretty babies? That film really WENT FAR - especially with the anachronisms.
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Holy James Baldwin! Tyler Perry is actually round here healing folks - even Tulane grads! Oy!!!!
TruthSerum101 1 year ago
@TruthSerum101 Also, I enjoy what you produce for Youtube & don't always, or even often agree with what you have to say. I hope, however, that this does not have to make you & I start looking at each other through stereotypes, especially when we've never met face to face. THAT is monolithic. You'll have noticed that others have started to suggest that gayness makes us somehow suckers (smile) & uncritical- yes, that's what you've implied- tho I'm not sure that you've thought through that comment.
diepiriye 1 year ago
@diepiriye Monolithic? I rarely paint in absolutes. I said, SOME GAY MEN. Some guys who have no interest in women beyond the platonic, might not be as offended by the portrayal of men abusing women because they don't feel included in that demographic. I addressed this from another angle in my video by having Whoopi say that she found gay men 2 B nonthreatening.
TruthSerum101 1 year ago
@TruthSerum101 I have to be honest & tell you that the way that you addressed me initially was very monolithic, perhaps in the same way that you saw the film as such. I'm gay and Black, so I've never had the luxury of seeing good or bad images of those like me onscreen. We're just not there, and I could name those rare occasions off the top of my head. So, for me, FCG didn't even attempt to show 'black men' but THOSE men who were black. And mostly society failed all the characters, so Americans?
diepiriye 1 year ago
@diepiriye If you can find it, revisit my original quote. Actually, Tyler was the gay man that I singled out.
TruthSerum101 1 year ago
@TruthSerum101 Also, please let us not argue over whether or not your comment towards me was monolithic. You have your view, & as the intended receiver, I actually see your attitude towards trying to figure out if we're "1 of the boys" stands in "a toxic template from" bad treatment from Black men. "It's an accumulative toll." but not one that blinds me to the Black men in my life that reciprocate my love and care. But, we, too, are damaged and in need of healing. It ain't gonna be televised.
diepiriye 1 year ago
"Ego damaged by ONE movie" - You haven't been paying attention, let me REFRESH your memory: "Color Purple","Monster's Ball", "Precious", "The Blind Side", "For colored girls" etc.We live in an unfortunate age where BW (and YOU!) are buying into this black degeneracy that is constantly portrayed on screen.Spike has never depicted black people in a negative light in his movies, whereas Tyler Perry has been making the same movie for the last five years. It is sickening.
ezekielthemack 1 year ago
@ezekielthemack That's my point. Spike has how many movies with positive Black male roles? Too many to count just now. And yet look at how often Black women are just candy in his films. Yes, that's the truth, & you know it! In almost all of his films, women, including his own sister's roles, are just there to utter a few words & prove the guy is straight! If you don't like Tyler Perry, that's one thing, & yes, he's still stuck on re-making the Color Purple, but with all the Black best friends...
diepiriye 1 year ago
@diepiriye I don't think the women in Jungle Fever, Mo' Better Blues and most of his other movies were "eye candy". The bottom line is that Spike has NOT made millions depicting black degeneracy (male or female) and black minstrelsy the way that Tyler Perry has. You are the embodiment of what most of white America wants most black men to become: A gay unassertive black male. In your case they have succeeded and the fact that you cannot see the logic of my argument speaks volumes.
ezekielthemack 1 year ago
@ezekielthemack That's right, it's all about me. 'Cause I'm bossy? And you even carry my dad's name. If you want to have sensible engagement, then let's if not, then let's leave it at that. I just don't need your bullying, and that's all you're trying to do here.
diepiriye 1 year ago
@ezekielthemack Just re-reading your comments. It's sad that we cannot disagree agreeably. I have my own theories about why individuals - & we as a people- need to tear someone down just to make our point. Perhaps the Internet makes it too easy to say things that we would think through had we met face-to-face. Still, & perhaps it's just b/c I was raised by southerners, I have no issues disagreeing with someone strongly, but still respecting their opinion as their truth, & letting that be ok.
diepiriye 1 year ago
@ezekielthemack I didn't realize it at first, but your comment just set off a light bulb in my head. He does PROMOTE degeneracy when it comes to the depiction of African Americans. It really is unfortunate. I think black people should stop promoting his work, ESPECIALLY OPRAH. I know it will be hard because he shares the same skin color, however it is very much necessary.
morningafter86 1 year ago
@morningafter86 OK, Hill Harper is there, too, and fly as ever. But to be real, all the men in this flic are quite fly - that is if you can get past their characters. Instead of boycotting Tyler, we'd better form a critique around him, to help him improve, as we can see happens with each film. We're not such a damaged people that these films doom us, and on the other side we gain so much more than mainstream Hollywood gives. We have the power to form the conversations around these films.
diepiriye 1 year ago
@diepiriye My question would be, why does it seem that director Spike Lee finds it so difficult to get funding for his films when in comparison he does not adhere to the negative stereotypes the media has placed on blacks. His films are much more empowering then Tyler Perry's, I mean he illustrates our struggles but he does it in a tasteful manner without consistently uplifting one gender and demoting the other. He equally shows the faults of both whereas Tyler Perry tries to appease black women
morningafter86 1 year ago
@morningafter86 I think that there is no secret why the majority culture in America likes to watch us act crazy - it makes them feel normal & makes the power disparity seems justified. If we are stupid, then of course we are poor and in prisons, etc. Also, Spike is no saint, though I agree that his films, thus far, have been far more profound in their critique. Save for a few, most of Spike's films' women are as flat as the men in FCG. Still, I think that there is room for a Tyler, SPike & more.
diepiriye 1 year ago
@diepiriye And this is just my personal opinion but I really think he is selling himself short by dressing up like a woman, and an overweight, loudmouthed, attitudinal, unbearable one at that. Those are ALL STEREOTYPES placed on black people, and he knows this yet he continues to manifest it. To me Madea serves no real purpose except for comedy relief but it distracts from the overall message he tries to illustrate in his films. Hollywood promotes degeneracy and so does he, so I guess he is
morningafter86 1 year ago
@morningafter86 Of course he's selling himself short, but it's not just him. Shanaynay? Flip WIlson? Eddie Murphy? How many black men have ridden black women's bodies to fame? And that's not to speak of how black gay men are made to look in black comedy in general, so I guess I'm used to trying to see past it, yet giving loving critique and not just laughing, but really demanding that they do more. Sometimes they do. I'm not a fire & forget kinda guy, b/c there is always more than meets the eye.
diepiriye 1 year ago
@diepiriye But there is a difference between Tyler Perry and the Eddie Murphy, Flip Wilson types. Tyler Perry writes, produces,casts and directs his own films. He has room to implement POSITIVE images of us, whereas Eddie Murphy stars in films written, directed, casted, and produced by white people. So it boggles my mind that he has power but doesn't exercise it. I think because he employs alot of black people we tend to turn the other cheek, BUT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
morningafter86 1 year ago
@morningafter86 Great points. A good example would be the radio show Smiley & West that I am listening to right now. Tavis Smiley & Cornel West give Obama serious grief. But for sure, they speak about him & his presidency wholly differently than the folks at Fox. What's the difference? Listen for yourself - but what I hear is that maturity NOT to tear one another down just to be critical. There's a huge area b'twn hating on him vs. blind worship. Tyler's got issues, but he's not the anti-Christ.
diepiriye 1 year ago
@diepiriye By no means do I criticize Tyler Perry out of disgust, but from genuine concern about he portrayal of people who look like me, and to make him a better playwright. I think Tyler Perry has ENORMOUS amount of talent.However personally I just think he is not utilizing his talent and this opportunity he has been given in the right way (most of the time).
And I should start watching Tavis Smiley more often, his program is excellent from what I hear.
morningafter86 1 year ago
@diepiriye Here is my thing if he makes it a point to create a threshold for blacks in America who want to break into the movie industry,then show diversity, show "Hollywood" that we can be more than overweight, gangbanging, ignorant, mouth pieces. Because that is why they type cast us. The more positive images he showcases the more it will become common to see us in that light, and the more we will begin to chip away at the stereotypes placed on us.
morningafter86 1 year ago
@morningafter86 I just do not want us to continue to tear down each one of us who has any success, because we treat them like they carry the whole responsibility to 'represent'. I agree with what you see in Madea, but we tend to become so harsh as to discourage one another when we could offer loving critique. Just look at the comments here, particularly from Truthserum101. It's too easy to hate on us b/c the majority culture has already shown us how. But critique & encouragement is different.
diepiriye 1 year ago
P.S. but i may try to find a boot leg just to look at Hill muhfuggin Harper!
EyeWearMySunglasses 1 year ago
I haven't seen it and to be honest its due to embarrassment, Im tired of "these kinds" of movies for "us". Its so air dirty laundry for naught...no matter how deep our pains are in life, in the media it plays as "oh my these poor soulful negroes" I want to see more "Havplenty'" and "Best Man" Give me a romantic gothic movie with nothing but US in it looking dignified and regal and speaking in old english. If art truly imitates life, lets throw some new realities on screen.
EyeWearMySunglasses 1 year ago
I read the book when I was in HS, I have never seen the play, and you have given the most "positive" review, out of everyone else! I was told not to pay to see it, but besides that, I have to give it some time for everyone to get through it. I am quite sensitive to things!
AfroMohawkable 1 year ago
@AfroMohawkable Yes, I was watching it again and it occurred to me that to see Hill as a victim is again that flimsy ego thing. I also wish there were more men like him on screen and in real life- has you seen his book!?! Hill Harper is no joke- he really LOVES Black women as sisters.
diepiriye 1 year ago
@diepiriye No I haven't read his book, but I will look him up.
AfroMohawkable 1 year ago
I totally did not see Hill Harper's character as powerless. I find it so sad that when a Black man is portrayed as sensitive and gentle that he is viewed as powerless. He chose to love his wife no matter (the infertility issue) what and have her back.
We should encourage this more in our men-instead of just hyper masculinity and sexuality.
3dotme 1 year ago
Were you ever sexually or physically abused by a black male?
EbonyNewsChannel 1 year ago
@EbonyNewsChannel Abused? That's a big word and means a lot of things. Short answer: there were times when kids made me feel very unsafe, and times when I felt betrayed by adults who should have known better.
diepiriye 1 year ago
You must have a high tolerance for misery & gruesomeness & long monologues. I am a female and I dont think I'd want to watch it twice.
EbonyNewsChannel 1 year ago
@EbonyNewsChannel I'm from Louisville, I can pretty much tolerate gruesomeness on the way to school, and misery by the time school's out, and still find time to play with friends (smile).
diepiriye 1 year ago
thank you sooo much! I was waitin...and thinkin...anyday now Diepiriye will make a vid over For Colored Girls...=D
rosesdiary 1 year ago
@rosesdiary Hey, thanks. I really got a lot out of this movie, from the styling to the story, etc. I'm a sucker for these ensemble movies (like Crash, for example). I've heard women around me talk about the play all my life & sadly had never seen it, so I feel totally blessed that it's on screen.
2 things: Janet Jackson looks & sounds like Michael; this ironically feeds into her role with a man who's confused about his gender identity, too.
Each sister failed to help another b/c of men
diepiriye 1 year ago
I totally agree. Great analysis.
Essencejournal 1 year ago