Glad to hear that Jay Z has decided to stop calling women "bitches". Evidently he came to this epiphany after becoming a father of a daughter. Thus the lyrics in his new song:
Before I got in the game, made a change, and got rich/ I didn't think hard about using the word bitch/I rapped, I flipped it, I sold it, I lived it/Now with my daughter in this world I curse those that give it.
OK, better late than never, I guess.
This reminded me of an interview I heard with Piers Morgan yesterday, while huffing and puffing on the elliptical machine (me, not Piers). First, he was being extremely nasty about how the women on the Golden Globes looked, just being sexist and ageist and unpleasant.
Then he was asked about his baby daughter, and Piers started talking about the day she would bring home her first boyfriend. He proceeded to describe a gruesome fantasy of torturing the guy, locking him up, etc. Puh-leeze. As the mother of a son and a daughter, I'd like to propose we retire the stereotype of the Neanderthal Dad who must stomp over an adolescent boy to protect his innocent daughter. It's not that we don't all want to protect our kids, but not all guys are maniacal predators and not all girls relish the thought of their fathers default hostility towards their male friends.
And before he starts critiquing an actress as "grotesque", he also might want to think about how he wants people talking about his own daughter some day.
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