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Catch me beating demons with a red Ferragamo belt
Had my witch do a hit, cast a spell hit the shelf
Bag o shells , fairy tales, fukk the gypsy I can't tell
Chain on me shine homie chandelier be crystal clear
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AlternativeFacts said:
Man yall gon start putting them long tumblr links in spoilers

Same goes to big ass pics, and multiple YouTube links. I ain't gon say it no mo :yallfinished:
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And then you always got that jackass who KNOW.....just KNOW that post took 2 real life mins to scroll down, and then they quote the WHOLE damn thing

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I remember dissecting this literature when I was in college about older men preying on a young girl...forcing her to grow up as a kid and sexualizing her. Hits home to what we were talking about days ago. @AlternativeFacts @Yusuke

Literally how I was explaining how grown men sexualize young girls before age of consent.

KARINTHA by Jean Toomer

Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon, O can't you see it, O can't you see it, Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon . . . When the sun goes down. Men had always wanted her, this Karintha, even as a child, Karintha carrying beauty, perfect as dusk when the sun goes down. Old men rode her hobby-horse upon their knees. Young men danced with her at frolics when they should have been dancing with their grown-up girls. God grant us youth, secretly prayed the old men. The younger fellows counted the time to pass before she would be old enough to mate with them. This interest of the male, that wishes to ripen a growing thing too soon, could mean no good to her. Karintha, at twelve, was a wild flash that told the other folks just what it was to live. At sunset, when there was no wind, and the pinesmoke from over by the saw-mill hugged the earth, and you couldn't see more than a few feet in front, her sudden darting past you was a bit of vivid color, like a black bird that flashes in the light. With the other children one could hear, some distance away, their feet flopping in the two inch dust. Karintha's running was a whir. It had the sound of the red dust that sometimes makes a spiral in the road. At dusk, during the hush just after the mill had closed down, and before any of the women had started their supper-getting-ready songs, her voice, Wgh-pitched, shrill, would put one's ears to itching. But no one ever thought to make her stop because of it. She stoned the cows, and beat her dog, and fought the other children . . . Even the preacher, who caught her at mischief, told himself that she was as innocently lovely as a November cotton-flower. Already, rumors were out about her. Homes in Georgia are most often built on the two-room plan. In one, you cook and eat, in the other is where you sit and sleep, and where love goes on. Karintha had seen or heard, perhaps she had felt her parents loving. One could but imitate one's parents, for to follow them was the way of God. She played home' with a small boy who was not afraid to do her bidding. That started the whole thing. Old men could 110 longer ride her hobby-horse upon their knees. But young men counted faster. Her skin is like dusk, O can't you see it, Her skin is like dusk When the sun goes down. Karintha is a woman. She who carries beauty, perfect as dusk when the sun goes down. She has been married many times. Old men remind her that a few years back they rode her hobby-horse upon their knees. Karintha smiles, and indulges them when she is in the mood for it. She has contempt for them. Karintha is a woman. Young men run stills to make her money. Young men gamble to make her money. Young men go to the large cities and run on the road. Young men go away to college. They all want to bring her money. These are the young men who thought that all they had to do was to count time. But Karintha is a woman, and she has had a child. A child fell out of her womb onto a bed of pine-needles in the forest. Pine-needles are smooth and sweet. They are elastic to the feet of rabbits . . . A saw-mill was nearby. Its pyramidal saw-dust pile smouldered. It is a year before one completely burns. Meanwhile, the smoke curls up and hangs in odd wraiths about the forest, curls up, and spreads itself out over the valley. Weeks after Karintha returned home, the smoke was so heavy you tasted it in water. Someone made a song:

Smoke is on the hills. Rise up. Smoke is on the hills, O rise And take my soul away. Karintlia is a woman. Men do not know that the soul of her was a growing thing ripened too soon. They will bring their money; they will die not having found it out . . . Karintha at twenty, carrying beauty, perfect as dusk when the sun goes down. Karintha . . . Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon, O can't you see it, O can't you see it, Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon . . . When the sun goes down. Goes down . . .
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"MEN HAD ALWAYS WANTED HER, THIS KARINTHA, EVEN AS A CHILD, KARINTHA CARRYING BEAUTY, PERFECT AS DUSK WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN. OLD MEN RODE HER HOBBY-HORSE UPON THEIR KNEES. YOUNG MEN DANCED WITH HER AT FROLICS WHEN THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN DANCING WITH THEIR GROWN-UP GIRLS... THIS INTEREST OF THE MALE, WHO WISHES TO RIPEN A GROWING THING TOO SOON, COULD MEAN NO GOOD TO HER... KARINTHA IS A WOMAN. MEN DO NOT KNOW THAT THE SOUL OF HER WAS A GROWING THING RIPENED TOO SOON. THEY WILL BRING THEIR MONEY; THEY WILL DIE NOT HAVING FOUND IT OUT... KARINTHA AT TWENTY, CARRYING BEAUTY, PERFECT AS DUSK WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN. KARINTHA..."




OVERVIEW
Karintha is a short poem story about a young black girl who turns into a woman. Toomer explains this girls skin as being compared to the eastern horizons dusk at the beginning of the poem almost as a foreshadow. At only 12 she caught the eyes of older men. As she gets only a little older, the author explains that she exchanges sex for money. "all want to bring her money." She eventually becomes pregnant at 20 and her soul burns out. All the joy she had as a child is gone. Toomer ends the poem by explaining how her skin is the horizons dusk again.

THEMES/ANALYSIS
Themes in Karintha have to do with sexual oppression of women in their own towns. Women would have to sell their selves to make a living. This leads women to depression and many internal problems that aren't showing on women's everyday face. Toomer makes this point by foreshadowing Karintha's skin throughout the poem.


REVIEW

Karintha is a girl that grows up so quickly because her beauty lures men twice her age to her thus forcing her to grow up early and fulfill her role. Desired as a child, Karintha is shown in the beginning of the short story as a child naïve of life and love. At youth, she was so beautiful that men ignored women their age and went after her waiting for her to be old enough to mate with her. At 12, she was mischievous but nonetheless, her beauty and youth granted her an easy way out for to everyone, she was an innocent flower. Rumors about her circled the society, and thus, her youth was jeopardized. Her mother and father would mate right next to where the children would sleep thus she was exposed to love making at an early age. She was tempted to imitate it with a boy and thus, called it play ‘home’. That began everything. Being a woman, she is cornered by old men who once went after her when she was a child. In anger, she indulges them manipulating them. She has young men hovering by her side. Men go study, and the city making their money and fulfilling their careers. She on the other hand, has been married many times and bore a child. She was “ripened” too soon, beauty ended her.

Karintha was never able to live a proper childhood. She was never able to have fun as a child because she was always surrounded by men interested in mating with her because of her beauty. She wasn’t able to be rebellious either because she was always the good girl due to her angelic features. She was also openly exposed to sex as a child, which isn’t good for children her age. When she played home with that boy, I felt bad that she compared home to lovemaking by saying play home. Home should be a place of family, comfort, shelter, and a caring atmosphere. The men in her life were all selfish for they robbed her of a childhood. Due to all these problems she had that she never asked for, she bore a child and had many husbands. She was never able to get a proper education, earn her own money or lived independent from her spouse/partner.

Her sole existence was through the men who court her. Her unequal state, large gender issues and social barriers examined the lack of women’s rights. They selfishly destroyed her youth she was forced to partake in her society’s expectation of being reproductive. Women were so suppressed by men that their rights were not existent for the longest time. The end highlighted her deep state of unhappiness.
 
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