My favorite hoe reference involves super Jeopardy player Ken
Jennings who, after setting records as the longest reigning Jeopardy
champion, was undone by the answer disreputable person, also a garden
implement. To which Jennings responded in the form of a question,
What is a hoe? (the answer was
Okay, that one's gold.
ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My favorite hoe reference
involves super Jeopardy player Ken
Jennings who, after setting records as the longest reigning Jeopardy
champion, was undone by the answer disreputable person, also a garden
implement. To which Jennings
While it'll probably be hard for Imus to get work again, a very
important issue within our community has to be answered. Why is
it ok for us to call our women hos, but if someone outside our race
does it we're suddenly up in arms. The saddest thing to me about the
whole Imus thing is the la
The simple answer to this question is that the hos referred to in
rap music are general (and of tenuous, if dubious merit) and the
insult hurled at the Rutgers basketball team is specific and totally
without merit. To expand, the use of ho in rap music may even have
context (see Prince's
rave, I won't even allow you cntext. The word is ugly, no matter who uses it or
whom it's used on. Everytime I hear it, I'm reminded of the scene from House
Party, in which either Kid or Play (whichever was the lighter of the two)
complains to a teacher that a fellow student called his mother a
(applause)
votomguy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While it'll probably be hard for
Imus to get work again, a very
important issue within our community has to be answered. Why is
it ok for us to call our women hos, but if someone outside our race
does it we're suddenly up in arms. The
I disagree in that nappy-headed would have been okay. That term is clearly
aimed at black people, our hair, and is *not* uttered by a white person in
anything that can be termed good humour or affection. Frankly the nappy-headed
pissed me off more. It's singling out a specific trait of
