Vibe Magazine: "Twerk" vs. "Tip Drill": The Clear Difference Between Empowerment & Degradation

[3rdWorld]

They both smut trash..or are we going to split hairs determining which garbage heap is more toxic now??

FOH

 

[StretfordRed]

Lol Coli male contingency are all in their feelings again

Of course it’ll be a bunch of toxic men complaining about the article. Typical

Replace the wird bytch with the n-word, the word men with cacs and woman with black people and see if you begin to understand the logic

Let’s wait for the response @xXOGKILLERXx

 

[Will Ross]

This is what happens when you allow ain’t shyt women to gain power

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

Thanks for keeping me aware, The Coli. I wouldn’t know half the shyt that is going on.

 

[Taadow]

As Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie notes in her popular essay We Should All Be Feminists, (which is sampled in Beyonce’s “***Flawless”), “We raise girls to see each other as competitors… for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way boys are… we police girls.”

Bet you didn't even know boys are "sexual beings", huh?

 

[southern.girl]

There’s no difference between the videos. It’s the same thing.

Was Jet, Ebony, Vibe and all these other so called "black" publications on this anti black man shyt back in the day or did this shyt start in the Obama New "black" America era.

To echo previous posters, black owned media did not instigate issues between black men & women. But that shows the power of black people owning their own image & media.

 

[froggle]

all these pages and no one dropped the gif

Classic moment.....I remember when I saw this I Was

 

[reasonable_doubter]

Lol.....

 

[you're NOT "n!ggas"]

My stupid ass actually read the article the fukk is wrong with me

About to get negged to oblivion, and not caping for the stupid article, but isn't this the same logic we use to justify using the n word?

Serious question. If i am mistaken, feel free to set me straight.

No, you're EXACTLY right. Thank you for saying what I was gonna keep to myself in this instance. This is why I can't stand that fukk ass word anymore, I'm tired of juelzing for bullshyt . Repped.

 

[Vilify]

How the hell is twerking plastic butts considered empowerment.

 

[Easy-E]

I never understood why Tip Drill was considered "Degrading to Black women". Not only were they grown ass women, but they AGREED to appear in the project

Like, what the fukk?

It was back when BET had standards.

Granted, it was on only late night, but, the channel was supposed to be for your momma and momma's momma, too. And Nelly was still a big artist.

I understood the anger.

 

[CinnaSlim]

I never understood why Tip Drill was considered "Degrading to Black women". Not only were they grown ass women, but they AGREED to appear in the project

Like, what the fukk?

Simple.
"It must be your ass, cuz it aint your face."
I think people forget this line when it comes to defending Tip Drill.

In the first few seconds of the video. The women lined up to greet the men, turn and present their asses at the same time for the men to choose.

Sure, were there women shaking their ass in the video? Yeah. But context matters.

In Tip Drill, the whole video is strictly for the male gaze, male audience. Women are merely (lyrically implied faceless) props. *Cue the infamous credit card scene*

Twerk: also has women shaking their ass for a contest. Women celebrating each other. Women having fun. Now, I hear some of the judges in the contest were men, but they werent present in the video.

The video started with a women calling all women to show up, show out, to get flewed out. And all through the video we see women having fun enjoying each other.

Tip Drill, couldve possibly saved face by having a verse by a female rapper who flipped the table like a couple other famous songs. A lil Kim or Trina to level the playing field. But it didnt.

Tried to get through a few more secs of the vid. Nah its just straight up porn and objectification. How can yall seriously compare this to Twerk? The song is named after a dance and there are girls on the beach and in the water doing the dance appropriately wearing bathing suits, sometimes more for a dance contest.

Whats the context for Tip Drill? The video is basically the insides of a brothel.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Alternate universe

Idiocracy has come to life fam

 

[Kenny West]

North korea should be finishing those nukes any day now

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Y'all getting mad over nothing. If they wanna shake their butts and call it empowerment, let them. It's a free country. Move to a Mormon community or some small black town if you don't like it.

This Straight Black Male thing isn't real. As matter of fact, I never heard of it until I ran into the Coli.