[Justin]

I'm white, and while it seems there's a lot of Miss Manners types here, I do notice the phenomenon you speak of. I'm not a stickler for 'excuse me,' particularly in crowded situations. How many times are you going to say "excuse me" to get from one end of the room to another when everyone is shoulder to shoulder? The same thing for crowded busses. I always figured there was a tacit understanding that when you enter a crowded situation that toes will be stepped on and shoulders will be brushed against, and none of it is intentional. I think, along with most whites, that 'excuse me' becomes an inconvenient formality in these situations. It doesn't, however, have anything to do with the steppee/brushee's race, although I know that many blacks take it this way (oversensitive?) and so I now say excuse me, but only when the stepee/brushee is black.

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Is complaining about the smell of and/or making silly jokes about genitals really 'mysogyny' or 'hatred of women'?

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In elvis' time it was because the listening public was racist and it still is. i was talking to this teenage girl who was a huge beastie boys fan (this was before emenem or the recent rap-metal phase) and she was explaining to me how she can't stand all that 'nigger music' and that the beastie boys were 'not rap' but rather 'i dunno, something totaly different'. similarly, i've seen insane clown posse fans on message boards refer to emenem, one of the few, perhaps the only, white mc to come the mic with both honesty and his identity as a white man intact, a 'faggot wigger' who 'probably prays to jesus every night that he'll wake up black' and that if he were to be honest about it he'd play metal. now i don't know what crap they have their studio guitarist playing, but it isn't metal (and i dissagree with the attribution of metal to jimi hendrix, althoug metal does find it's roots in psychedelic and blues rock), but if any body can be said to be guilty of ineptly aping a white man's characature of black/hip-hop culture, it's icp. but i digress. they (white rappers and rap-rockers) should all get a concience and drop off the scene. every album that emenem sells is one that common doesn't. if the kids want to hear hip hop, make 'em buy black.

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