NPR revisits the black gender war discourse over the Color Purple...I didn't know how big of a deal this was back then

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I don’t think I realized how much of a black gender war there was over the “The Color Purple“ when it came out.

There are the same arguments you see online today: blacks gays versus straights, men versus women, the role of black male strength in the face of white supremacy, allegations of domestic violence and assault, oppression of black males and taking it out on black women, family, secrets, trauma Porn, and a whole host of repetitive issues that you would think were published in a movie from Lena Waithe two years ago

Revisiting 'The Color Purple' Wars

Listen to this episode and more from Up First from NPR on TuneIn. Criticism about representation and misrepresentation in film are nothing new. In this episode, Aisha Harris, co-host of the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, traces the debates ignited by Steven Spielberg's 1985 film, "The Color...

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oh, they threw in a random Meg vs Tory Lanez hot take in the end "Black men aren't defending black women"

 

[Richard Glidewell]

It's always something. We know the world was and is fukked up, but the exception is repeatedly tried to be labeled as the rule. In doing so the focus is taken off where our attention should and who really had their foots on our necks

 

[RickyDiBiase]

We are not a serious people when we need to be, but always wanna turn up on one another over bullshyt. shyt is tiresome and embarrassing. The silver lining is, even if, male or female is sympathetic to whichever “side” and their grievances, the average mf doesn’t care about this shyt.

 

[Gritsngravy]

Lowkey this always been a dialogue in black culture gender wars didn’t just start because of the internet

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Lowkey this always been a dialogue in black culture gender wars didn’t just start because of the internet

There’s truly nothing new under the sun

 

[Wildhundreds]

What's the point thats trying to be made? The movie is almost 40 years old now.

 

[Gritsngravy]

There’s truly nothing new under the sun

And it’s just as bad with white people too, really it’s a human thing
I wonder what the first humans was like, were men and women enemies at first and men eventually overpowered women and these past couple of hundred years were women trying to gain power back

 

[Wildhundreds]

Lowkey this always been a dialogue in black culture gender wars didn’t just start because of the internet

But nobody wants to walk it back to slavery when gender wars amongst black people 1st started on these shores.

 

[Gritsngravy]

But nobody wants to walk it back to slavery when gender wars amongst black people 1st started on these shores.

Don’t nobody want to have a real conversation about what transpired during slavery, black or white

 

[FluffyEyes]

What's the point thats trying to be made? The movie is almost 40 years old now.

Well there's a musical version being made into a movie to be released starring Fantasia and Halle Bailey, so why not discuss it??

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Well there's a musical version being made into a movie to be released starring Fantasia and Halle Bailey, so why not discuss it??

Wait. Really?!

 

[Fill Collins]

We are not a serious people when we need to be, but always wanna turn up on one another over bullshyt. shyt is tiresome and embarrassing. The silver lining is, even if, male or female is sympathetic to whichever “side” and their grievances, the average mf doesn’t care about this shyt.

The only ppl I know on that "gender war" tip IRL are extremely dusty older brehs who honestly believe they're "entitled" to 18-20 something women they can "mould", the level of detatchment and delusion is sad and pathetic

Scary thing is, in a decade or two, ppl from all generations are gonna start falling for online grifters, I'm hearing about baby boomers getting fooled by improved AI and deepfakes on facebook

And on the bolded, yep, it's discouraging seeing whole ass Black adults mentally stuck in high school

 

[Wildhundreds]

Well there's a musical version being made into a movie to be released starring Fantasia and Halle Bailey, so why not discuss it??

Because they're not going to discuss all of it. It was a cluster fck after slavery was abolished and the civil war.. Thats how black people got into share cropping in that region. Some of the black men took advantage of women who had nowhere to go while they ran those former plantations.. Its really a uncomfortable conversation to be had.

 

[RickyDiBiase]

The only ppl I know on that "gender war" tip IRL are extremely dusty older brehs who honestly believe they're "entitled" to 18-20 something women they can "mould", the level of detatchment and delusion is sad and pathetic

Scary thing is, in a decade or two, ppl from all generations are gonna start falling for online grifters, I'm hearing about baby boomers getting fooled by improved AI and deepfakes on facebook

And on the bolded, yep, it's discouraging seeing whole ass Black adults mentally stuck in high school

American men like to beat they chest about masculinity this, alpha male that all this goofy shyt. Meanwhile Motherfukkers sniffling and howling cause a bytch not trying to settle for a fool who don’t have no vision or sense, let alone a plan. That’s it. All it ever boil down to. Just like you said breh, mfers stuck on that feeble minded, arrested development and dumbasses shocked a bytch rather pick a mf with long dollars or at least know how to kick it

 

[Luke Cage]

I think i remember there being some discourse about a post slavery movie about racism and jim crow making Danny Glover the primary vilain.
But i was young, don't know if it any thing like the petty social media takes people have today