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Originally Posted by I.A.S.K.
I did not see mental health is the documentary. Did I miss that part?
What is up with everyone saying "she should have kept her legs closed" ? I fully understand that women are responsible for their part in making babies out of wedlock, but is there ever going to be a day when someone says "keep it in your pants". As a YBW I have realized and partially accepted the fact that I am more responsible for any actions between me and the male kind. Don't like it, but it is what it is I guess.
Young men get condoms; young women get condemned.
I was watching Divorce Court and for 3 episodes in a row the judge told women that they should have considered the fact that a man can walk away at anytime and the high divorce rate before they decided to lay down and have children. While this is true partly, the judge was talking to married women. If you can't expect the man that you marry and make vows to to take of your children (that you two made together) then what should be done. Should everyone remain childless?
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What a poignant question! Basically in this society, the American society, they are saying "YES, keep your legs closed"... LOL... There are REASONS why they are saying it--yeah right, it is always the Black woman's fault
etc. And the reasons are LEGION!!!
The image of the Black woman was not focused at all. How is CNN going to entitle their episode as "Black Women and the Family" and relegate it to alleged high powered Black women unable to find dates, then leaps and bounds to a family reunion finding white distant cousins--as if that's really important in a Black woman's life? And what little they discussed about HIV is beyond comprehension--given that stat--85% new infections...
And given that Michelle Obama could be the next upcoming First Lady--how those attacks on her (think New Yorker cover) shows the gross mislabeling of who, what, where, when and why of Black women--Like we can be labeled given our natural Universe, royalty and divinity
Interesting they failed to step on the bounds of NBC's series on that note. Maybe that was one too many for us...
As for mental health: welp, y'all know what I'm trying to do. Kneegrows aren't interested in that kind of care according to several people--some published, some not. I think it is more an coach or advisory role than "counselor", etc. Nonetheless, covering the health disparity in the Black community along would take a series and no one would want to do it because folks would have to come clean--like John Hopkins, Mayo Clinic and Mass General (to name a few)... LOL...
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