Comments on: Are tabloid magazines racially biased? http://www.celebitchy.com/10800/are_tabloid_magazines_racially_biased/ Stylish celebrity escapism Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:56:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: cocoabella http://www.celebitchy.com/10800/are_tabloid_magazines_racially_biased/#comment-18689 cocoabella Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:04:40 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/10800/are_tabloid_magazines_racially_biased/#comment-18689 @ headache & FF.... MUCH PROPS! @ kimberlee....oh boy kimberlee. Some of what u say is quite disturbing, and ur missing major points b3ing made. You claim that blacks should blame themselves for the negative images they portray, but not all of us are 50, diddy or jay-z. Who owns mtv, vh-1 and bet? VIACOM. That's a white-owned company hon. They control what images are distributed immensely. Sure we have bad boys like jay z, and booty poppin hoes. But we also have the jill scotts, india aire's, lupe fiasco's and pharrell's that are misrepresented. They are misrepresented bc they want ppl like u 2 think gang bangin and booty poppin is all we are about... clearly, and sadly....it worked. @ headache & FF…. MUCH PROPS!

@ kimberlee….oh boy kimberlee. Some of what u say is quite disturbing, and ur missing major points b3ing made. You claim that blacks should blame themselves for the negative images they portray, but not all of us are 50, diddy or jay-z. Who owns mtv, vh-1 and bet? VIACOM. That’s a white-owned company hon. They control what images are distributed immensely. Sure we have bad boys like jay z, and booty poppin hoes. But we also have the jill scotts, india aire’s, lupe fiasco’s and pharrell’s that are misrepresented. They are misrepresented bc they want ppl like u 2 think gang bangin and booty poppin is all we are about… clearly, and sadly….it worked.

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]]> By: headache http://www.celebitchy.com/10800/are_tabloid_magazines_racially_biased/#comment-18688 headache Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:36:26 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/10800/are_tabloid_magazines_racially_biased/#comment-18688 Eva Longoria is on one of the most popular shows with the average white American woman right now. Eva Longoria is on one of the most popular shows with the average white American woman right now.

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]]> By: Anonymous http://www.celebitchy.com/10800/are_tabloid_magazines_racially_biased/#comment-18687 Anonymous Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:15:33 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/10800/are_tabloid_magazines_racially_biased/#comment-18687 What I don't get-if American magazines are racist, then why would Eva Longoria be so popular? Isn't she Latin? And I agree with someone up there. I would be much more interested in a Rihanna wedding, Beyonce can be really annoying What I don’t get-if American magazines are racist, then why would Eva Longoria be so popular? Isn’t she Latin? And I agree with someone up there. I would be much more interested in a Rihanna wedding, Beyonce can be really annoying

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]]> By: Lori Price http://www.celebitchy.com/10800/are_tabloid_magazines_racially_biased/#comment-18686 Lori Price Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:21:15 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/10800/are_tabloid_magazines_racially_biased/#comment-18686 No, it's not racism. It's because no one cares that blimpo Beyonce, a Reichwing idiot, got married. Lori Price www.legitgov.org No, it’s not racism. It’s because no one cares that blimpo Beyonce, a Reichwing idiot, got married.
Lori Price
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]]> By: nonentity http://www.celebitchy.com/10800/are_tabloid_magazines_racially_biased/#comment-18685 nonentity Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:14:00 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/10800/are_tabloid_magazines_racially_biased/#comment-18685 I was bummed by the relatively light coverage. I flipped through the pages of the gossip rags, trying to find dress shots. They kept on showing Gwyneth Paltrow and Solange instead. :-P I was bummed by the relatively light coverage. I flipped through the pages of the gossip rags, trying to find dress shots. They kept on showing Gwyneth Paltrow and Solange instead. :-P

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]]> By: I choose me http://www.celebitchy.com/10800/are_tabloid_magazines_racially_biased/#comment-18683 I choose me Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:40:00 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/10800/are_tabloid_magazines_racially_biased/#comment-18683 headache, FF, and geronimo all make very good points. I especially agree with your last comment headache. I've known a few people both black and white that are not outright racist but insist on stereotyping other races and don't make any effort to look beyond what is put out there by a media that glorifies trashiness on both sides. Argh - I hoped to be more articulate than this but all of my well reasoned thoughts seemed to have flow away. headache, FF, and geronimo all make very good points. I especially agree with your last comment headache. I’ve known a few people both black and white that are not outright racist but insist on stereotyping other races and don’t make any effort to look beyond what is put out there by a media that glorifies trashiness on both sides.

Argh - I hoped to be more articulate than this but all of my well reasoned thoughts seemed to have flow away.

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]]> By: Enonymous http://www.celebitchy.com/10800/are_tabloid_magazines_racially_biased/#comment-18684 Enonymous Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:50:40 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/10800/are_tabloid_magazines_racially_biased/#comment-18684 Pam you said it all, I agree with you. Pam you said it all, I agree with you.

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]]> By: headache http://www.celebitchy.com/10800/are_tabloid_magazines_racially_biased/#comment-18682 headache Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:29:11 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/10800/are_tabloid_magazines_racially_biased/#comment-18682 Okay some of you have serious issues if you think that the black community dogs itself more than the white community. Blacks aren't the only ones who lift up, glorify and emulate the worst of themselves. Must I mention Britney Spears and Pam Anderson again? As for music lyrics, a study found that the two genres most likely to sing about sex, drug use and alcoholism is rap AND COUNTRY! There are just as many scantily clad hootches in rock videos as rap and hip hop ones. The term sex, drugs, and rock and roll was not invented by blacks. Most of these black women who should be getting magazine covers aren't perpetuating a thug lifestyle so why they hell is anyone even bringing it up? Britney makes the cover more times than anyone can count and her ass is nothing near someone anyone should be emulating. Even before her "fall from grace" her ass was on the cover boobs hanging out, airbrushed to maximum hotness and youth like candy before grown men and people were buying the magazines left and right. I'm sick of reading these comments where people call out blacks for objectifying women when EVERYONE is just as guilty of it. How long has the white community used skinny ass, big titties women to sell cars, trucks, motorcycles, etc? What the hell was Mick Jagger singing about when he said I can't get no satisfaction? You think it's not there because Guns and Roses never sang the word Bitches? Nearly every other song in the sixties and seventies was about drug use of some sort? You think you get points because they used metaphors? Besides thug rap and all that isn't the only form of black music out there. There's Jill Scott, India Aire, Mary J Blidge, Outkast, Nas, etc. Some of you aren't racist but you sure as hell are eager as shit to pigeonhole black people into some kind of place. We call that stereotyping. Okay some of you have serious issues if you think that the black community dogs itself more than the white community. Blacks aren’t the only ones who lift up, glorify and emulate the worst of themselves. Must I mention Britney Spears and Pam Anderson again? As for music lyrics, a study found that the two genres most likely to sing about sex, drug use and alcoholism is rap AND COUNTRY!

There are just as many scantily clad hootches in rock videos as rap and hip hop ones. The term sex, drugs, and rock and roll was not invented by blacks.

Most of these black women who should be getting magazine covers aren’t perpetuating a thug lifestyle so why they hell is anyone even bringing it up? Britney makes the cover more times than anyone can count and her ass is nothing near someone anyone should be emulating. Even before her “fall from grace” her ass was on the cover boobs hanging out, airbrushed to maximum hotness and youth like candy before grown men and people were buying the magazines left and right.

I’m sick of reading these comments where people call out blacks for objectifying women when EVERYONE is just as guilty of it. How long has the white community used skinny ass, big titties women to sell cars, trucks, motorcycles, etc? What the hell was Mick Jagger singing about when he said I can’t get no satisfaction? You think it’s not there because Guns and Roses never sang the word Bitches?

Nearly every other song in the sixties and seventies was about drug use of some sort? You think you get points because they used metaphors?

Besides thug rap and all that isn’t the only form of black music out there. There’s Jill Scott, India Aire, Mary J Blidge, Outkast, Nas, etc.

Some of you aren’t racist but you sure as hell are eager as shit to pigeonhole black people into some kind of place. We call that stereotyping.

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]]> By: ha! http://www.celebitchy.com/10800/are_tabloid_magazines_racially_biased/#comment-18681 ha! Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:25:17 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/10800/are_tabloid_magazines_racially_biased/#comment-18681 Love, Kimberlee Love,
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]]> By: Pam http://www.celebitchy.com/10800/are_tabloid_magazines_racially_biased/#comment-18680 Pam Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:17:26 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/10800/are_tabloid_magazines_racially_biased/#comment-18680 Nope. The difference in the black stereotypes and white stereotypes is that I can look on the covers of different magazines and see examples of white men and women who don't fit the dumb white blonde/drunk white rocker stereotypes. These other portrayals that you see of whites are as common and as accepted by whites as the stereotypes. However, you don't find very much black diversity in the popular black entertainment media. And that's okay and acceptable to blacks who support the stereotypes and the ones who get paid by corporations to perpetuate them. If you can't understand that it isn't about convincing whites to respect black people, it's about convincing black people to respect themselves FIRST and FOREMOST (by not referring to themselves as racial epithets in their music and by acting in their own best interests)then you will run the magazine cover that undersells. I don't feel that black people should have to go out of their way to get the respect of whites, but if they want to see mainstream culture embrace them as a group and as individuals (and sale more mainstream magazine covers), they are going to have to address this respect issue at one time or another. If your career is to portray the belief or philosophy that a person of a certain gender, age, or ethnicity is a whore or a bitch/animal, your stupid ass picture on a magazine is not going to end up in MY shopping cart, bottom-line. Plus, I prefer to see female faces (not behinds). Nope. The difference in the black stereotypes and white stereotypes is that I can look on the covers of different magazines and see examples of white men and women who don’t fit the dumb white blonde/drunk white rocker stereotypes. These other portrayals that you see of whites are as common and as accepted by whites as the stereotypes. However, you don’t find very much black diversity in the popular black entertainment media. And that’s okay and acceptable to blacks who support the stereotypes and the ones who get paid by corporations to perpetuate them. If you can’t understand that it isn’t about convincing whites to respect black people, it’s about convincing black people to respect themselves FIRST and FOREMOST (by not referring to themselves as racial epithets in their music and by acting in their own best interests)then you will run the magazine cover that undersells. I don’t feel that black people should have to go out of their way to get the respect of whites, but if they want to see mainstream culture embrace them as a group and as individuals (and sale more mainstream magazine covers), they are going to have to address this respect issue at one time or another.
If your career is to portray the belief or philosophy that a person of a certain gender, age, or ethnicity is a whore or a bitch/animal, your stupid ass picture on a magazine is not going to end up in MY shopping cart, bottom-line. Plus, I prefer to see female faces (not behinds).

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