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September 30, 2009

Why I hate the word wifey, Part 2 out of 3: Lowering expectations for BW

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , — timetokeepitreal @ 8:11 pm

I touched on this in part 1 but I’m returning to this in part 2. Any time a man refers to you and/or any woman as wifey, he’s trying to lower your expectations.

I would think that most women, except lesbians, desire to be married and to have children. When we were girls and we played house, someone was always the Mommy and someone always played Daddy. Even as children, we knew the natural course of things. As we aged, things got skewed and lost our way. We got bamboozled and jedi mind tricked into believing some real wicked propaganda.

Music is one of the best ways to spread propaganda. Hitler used music as one of the ways to spread his view of the Third Reich and in the end, we got WWII and the Holocaust. Music was used in Rwanda during the ethnic cleansing. In the 1960s, with the sexual revolution, civil rights movement, emergence of drugs, etc., the music reflected the goals of the change (the Beatles and “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” Jefferson Airplane, “Someone to Love,” James Brown, Marvin Gaye.)

There is a war to break BW down and to make them believe that they only deserve whatever a BM can give them. The biggest instrument right now in this war is rap music. The bass is infectious and it just drives the words the rapper speaks into your mind and your subconscious (b***h, ho, n***a, etc.) and the lyrics are crafted in a way that even the most horrible rapper can punctuate what he wants you to hear and the phrases will stick in your mind. Every time a rapper says wifey, its usually in a sing-song way that demeans women and it sticks in your brain. Yet, it’s not as demeaning when you first hear it as some of the other words/scenarios used to refer to women.

Given how the rest of the music slanders BW, the term can sound somewhat pleasant and not bad. Now, you’re caught.

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