Thursday, August 17, 2006
It reminds me of a scene in a movie where a basketball coach chastises his african-american kids for degrading each other and themselves. It is one thing to be called a "nigger" by a white man, he reproaches, but another thing for them to start calling each other by the same name as if it were something to be proud of.
it's all very well for someone to say that it's good people can take issues like these, turn them around, and use them on themselves for occasions to laugh about. But i find it very hard to envision "yo bitch", in place of a normal obliging "hello", could be imbued with any self-awareness at all, much less "nigger" or any other derogatory term.
i stumbled on a particular angsty teenybopper blog title one day which read "Happy Birthday Trophyfuck" and winced. I shall not debate the "cool-ness" factor of the in-generation now, especially their camaraderie-esque desire to build names for friends as though it were a spelling bee contest.
Trophyfuck is a pretty nice name once you use it often enough, that it gets hackneyed and shrivelled up like iloveu's that you start to search for an even better derogatory term cos it's insulting, ergo special.
wow, i would so feel the love.
or is that not how they say it nowadays? Joyce Lim unzipped at 1:53 AM with 0 comments
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