This (via: machistado) is a great post about how the focus on misogyny in rap music (versus other forms of music) has a heavy background in racism.
Although the whole thing is worth a read, here’s one quote in particular that’s wonderful:
Marilyn Manson declared that one of the aims of his provocative persona was to see how much it would take to get the moralists as mad at white artists as they got about 2LiveCrew. He said it took fake boobs, Satanism, simulated sex on stage, death and angst along with semi-explicit lyrics, to get the same screaming the 2LiveCrew got for one song. Manson thought this reaction was hypocritical and hilarious.
Why is Marilyn Manson such an awesome person (even if his music isn’t much to my taste most of the time)?
