Day 357: Uhh, that offends me!

Recently in the media, we have seen numerous times were generalizations have been made and words were said that offended someone. We have come to an age were everyone is very touchy. Don't mention this, don't say that. I see it even in my family, when I was younger it seems like you could ask them anything because they are family, but nowadays I'm afraid to even ask "How's college going? Shouldn't you be done?" because of the tongue lashing I'm going to get from someone for being insensitive. (but in my defense, I can count, I find it offensive that you are going to act like maybe I won't notice it's been 4 years).
Have we all gotten touchy, do we take ourselves too seriously or are these statements really hurtful?

For example, a few weeks before I started this blog*, Rihanna  and "Jackie" a Dutch magazine came up in the media. The editor of said magazine decided that it was a good idea to call her "the ultimate n***a b***h in PRINT for her article. And worse they meant it as a compliment. In the words of my friend, "Where they do that at?" When has it ever been ok to use those words? This would be upsetting to hear from someone I knew since I was in diapers, but even more upsetting because the girl didn't know her AND wrote it AND it made it into the magazine with no further edits. The editor issued an apology on facebook and then promptly resigned, but what could she say? I thought that was the "in word to say I call my other Black friends that all the time"? PUH-LEASE.

Naturally Beautiful Me judgement: Hurtful (verbally attackable)

Now take the new you-tube video sensation S**t that [ Black women] say. I read an article about how the video made to parody Black women, had them up in arms in disgust. "How could you, that's not me, those are sexist generalizations!!" Well yea, but they are very true. I laughed for so long, especially when "Peaches" patted "her" hair and asked a million questions over and over. ("Is it hot in here?")

Naturally Beautiful Me judgement: Hilarious

The moral of the story: Don't say hurtful things unless you know for a fact that they are true...Wait that's not right. Below for your viewing pleasure is "S**t Black Girls Say. Have a great day!

S**t Black Girls Say
Ohh and when I googled that link they have S**t Natural Hair Girls Say, not as funny but pretty true!

*As a rule, you will notice that Naturally Beautiful Me is a little behind on reporting on current events. That's why I am posting this and not my opinion to the season opener of "The Game" (and cause I didn't see it.)