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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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Prima Donna said:
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



"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 women. 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 o 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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Prima Donna said:
nikkas want women with pretty feet, in shape, perfect skin, healthy natural hair, BUT swear they HATE vain women/women who are into themselves. :mjlol:
So you want her to put all this focus on her appearance while you look like a rollie pollie, and expect her to be humble and give every nikka a chance regardless of how he looks.
Men are so fukking stupid at times.
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I don't hate vain women. And a woman who looks good, takes care of herself, is still in prime child bearing year, and is ready to hold down a household should only deal with a man she feels is worthy. A man who can give her everything she needs and a lot of what she wants. Any nikka who says a woman who has gone out her way to make sure she's a prime candidate, should give "every nikka a chance" is probably a lazy fukk who complains like a woman instead of going out and getting what he wants.
 
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Saw a story on the news about a baby girl that died in a house fire caused by a damn hoverboard :mjcry:

Why is my sorry, crybaby, loser ass still alive?
 
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Yusuke said:
@Prima Donna , just last week me and Athenna were talking about this. How kids are being sexualized from a young age. And its gonna get even worse with the way social media throws it in these kid's faces.

Also that part about nikkas waiting until the girl looks "old enough" to have sex with them is so true. It's sick.
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Not even "looks" old enough. She can still look 11 or 12. But if she's like 16 or older, nikkas will say she is fair game.
This is why men are also so paranoid and against having daughters.
Men are gonna do the same to their daughters.
 
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Prima Donna said:
Not even "looks" old enough. She can still look 11 or 12. But if she's like 16 or older, nikkas will say she is fair game.
This is why men are also so paranoid and against having daughters.
Men are gonna do the same to their daughters.
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That's why when a woman brings her boyfriend around her father it's the "final test" :mjpla:
 
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