My SILHOUETTES! Here we are again, with my 12th issue and many things to share. Yes as you may see I opened up with one of Destiny Child’s classic songs from the 2001 Survivor Album “Nasty Girl”. An interesting video to say the least (smile) and even more interesting when you read the lyrics. So why the video I hear you say, what’s the point she’s trying to make? WELP! In light of the star that is Beyoncé and the subject of modesty, which we all know is the basis of every issue that I do. A blessed individual by the name of The Honourable Minister Louis Farrakhan was presented a question by a beautiful sister (Tahirah X) in which she had asked “What is the specific role of the female artist…the Beyoncé’s, the Rihanna’s…Nicki Minaj was in the city…and for those in my age bracket…What is our specific role and what is their specific role as female artists?”
The answer he pleasantly gave received major backlash mostly
due to snippets and opinions of websites and writers focusing on certain words,
sentences and phrases he said without looking fully at the interview itself.
The basis of the NASTY GIRL video was playfully pulling on
the presentation or lack thereof of the female (of all colours) and encouraged
her to PUT SOME CLOTHES ON because no man wanted a “hot female that’s been
around the block female” and it’s quite funny and ironic how the way the
females are dressed in that video is the same way women are dressed and
depicted here in 2015. Coincidence! ….I THINKS NOT lol. Throughout each of my
issues you and I have gone on a journey of how women used to be portrayed and
how they used to dress, from class, elegance and refinement right through to
the modern times, looking like hoe’s, disrespected and stamped with a “Stereotype”.
The art of femininity has been lost, washed away in the coldness and violent
current of Niagara Falls, but I ask you today can we reclaim what we once had…A
STANDARD…and make it an everlasting TREND? I definitely think so! However
before we do, we have to, have to, HAVE TO be a scientist and ask questions...prod...poke
and research the so called “information” the media may put out about our favourite
artists, actors, writers, dancers, religious leaders so on and so forth.
We {including me...so please don’t think I’m preaching ;)}
have to get out of this “ZOMBIE MENTALITY” of going along with the first one
that GRUNTS and believing everything that this writer, or blog site says
without going away and doing our own research. Why? Because being able to think
for yourself, study for yourself and come to your own conclusion amidst what
the masses say. Makes you, for a better word…UNIQUE. Waka Flocka said it best on his recent
interview on The Breakfast Club, in which he stated that nobody wants to be
different anymore, everyone is the same. You go to the club everyone is wearing
the same thing, drinking the same thing, and females posing the same way.
Creativity has been lost. I commended him immensely on the powerful words he
was saying! {I urge everyone to go and listen to his full interview! POWERFUL
STUFF}
With that being said he is just one of the artists baring
witness to what I’ve been discussing and have been addressing in previous
issues.
Vs
What the “Media” and so
called Articles Said.
So now we get down to the meat! {Pulls out BBQ grill ready
to cook O-O} I’m hoping you watched the video in full and listened to the whole
context of what he was saying. Some may still disagree with what he said…well
let’s BREAK IT DOWN!
You and I cannot deny the demoralisation of women today, and
how we are looked at as a piece of meat and or a toy thing to play with instead
of what we rightly are, Mothers of Civilisation. The word MOTHER is such a
powerful statement meaning:
(Often as noun
mothering) Bring up (a child) with care and affection:
‘The art of mothering’
Look after (someone) kindly and protectively, sometimes
excessively so:
‘She mothered her husband, insisting he should take cod
liver oil in the winter’
So we understand that it means to take care, to protect,
bring up etc. these are all powerful words given to a female as her
responsibility, not just for her child, but for Civilisation- {The World} and
if we disrespect her then we disrespect The World. Remember it is said that the
standard is not measured by the Male but by the Female. Still not convinced?
Still wondering what this has to do with Modesty, Farrakhan, Beyoncé, Rihanna
and Nicki Minaj? O_o OK let me give you another example lol. In the word Mother
there is MOT and HER.
MOT simply means: (also MOT test)
(In the UK) a compulsory annual test for safety and exhaust
emissions of motor vehicles of more than a specified age.
HER simply means: (pronoun)
used as the object of a verb or preposition to refer to a female person or
animal previously mentioned or easily identified.
Well YES…yes he does, however the STANDARD will never
rise until US as females make it so!
The female psyche is a complicated BUT BEAUTIFUL THING! We
are so in tune with ourselves to a certain degree, WHEN it comes to Males, that
we know how to control them! {DON’T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT YOU KNOW IT’S TRUE
HAHA} I mean ladies come now! We see a gentleman that we like or we hear about
a party that a club is having and we mentally and physically prepare for that
occasion. Planning the dress, hair, toes all the way right down to the eyelash
we are going to buy {smile} and WE KNOW from that particular dress we wear what
kind of response we want to illicit from the opposite sex. So much so that when
he sees us, BOOM he can’t help but come over, compliment you on your dress, ask
you for a dance and then the next thing you know you and him are in the
club/bar or wherever your gentleman caller may be grinding it up, while he
mentally makes an imprint of you in his mind…from your look, down to your
smell, touch, feel…ok let me not carry on! (BIG SMILE) <<< YOU KNOW
WHAT I MEAN! So if this is true and it is, don’t you think what the Minister is
saying is right and exact? No? Ok let’s
go further.
You may be saying, the likes of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé
are their own people… they are not our role models, they are just entertainers,
leave them alone. Well no I beg to differ, it’s because they are entertainers,
they automatically become role models whether they like it or not. It’s a part
of their responsibility regardless to whether they admit to it, it comes with
the job. Kendrick Lamar said the following in his interview on The Breakfast
Club…
"We have a handful right now, but I think every
artist should always be responsible for how they go about marketing themselves
or putting their music or you know their words together. Because this was
something I didn't understand until I went out on these roads and talked to
these kids, they take my music very seriously, so with that being said; I know
that they take the next artists music very seriously.
Charlamagne Tha God: Probably Not!
Kendrick Lamar: No they do! No real talk because the real
life that the artist went through, for kids in this new generation it may just
be a trend for them, until they go out there and get themselves killed... you
feel what I'm saying.? So how I put my words together, for me personally is a
strategic way, I'm not just glorifying the streets or what not...it's a reality
check, but it's for the better at the end of the day"
“But Them Nay-Sayers Though!”
On one video link of the Ministers interview I casually
began to scroll and view the comments of individuals voicing their opinion of
the matter. Some had said
“He’s a pervert”
“She’s not YOUR WIFE”
“Stay out of THEIR BUSINESS”
“He’s a misogynist!”
“Maintainer? I can’t get past that word, she’s not property!”
Hmmm and a side eye to some of them comments…did you know
that in the Gypsy community over here in the UK and the USA they actually have
morals. SHUT UP FASHION.SILHOUETTE. NO THEY BLOODY DON’T! YES YES THEY DO! As crazy
as their life may seem, and we may not agree with everything they do or how
they choose to live their lives, at the end of the day they all have one common
cause which will never go away. A STRONG COMMUNITY. When it comes to the female they say her name
and her reputation is worth more than gold. If her name is tarnished or she isn’t
a virgin then she, her mother and her family have a hard time finding a gypsy
man to court and marry her. You may say no that’s a bit backwards, on the
contrary my dear silhouettes, did not destiny’s child lyric say that a man didn’t
want a hot female that’s been around the block female? The gypsy community use
the term gorger to describe an outsider or non gypsy, so when the young men are
looking to have a “good time” before settling down they go to a “gorger” any
female in a club/bar/party that they have met and have a good time! However
when he is ready to settle down he is very adamant that she be of his culture,
have a good name and reputation and be a virgin. A bit archaic to some, however
when you get past the sexualisation of this world, all men really want is a “Good
Wholesome Girl” at heart who is “Wifey Material”…what say you Men?
So to hear people accuse Minister Farrakhan of such things
WITHOUT doing a lick of studying OR without watching his FULL INTERVIEW… is
quite…preposterous. Individuals “think” that the women of the Nation of Islam
or Islam in general, are oppressed, forced to cover and have no rights to say
anything!! AGAIN I say PREPOSTEROUS!
Let us DEFINE some of these ridiculous words people have
called him.
Pervert: Verb
1.Distort or corrupt the original course, meaning, or state of
(something).
"He was charged with conspiring to pervert the course
of justice" << Well NOPE he can’t be that because all he has ever
fought for was the LIBERATION and JUSTICE for Black People and All Races. So
cross that box off [X]
2. Lead (someone) away from what is considered natural or
acceptable. << NOPE all he has ever fought for and is fighting for is the
Natural order of how God/The Creator made things in regards to Freedom, Justice
and Equality. So cross that box off [X]
Noun
3. A person whose sexual behaviour is regarded as abnormal
and unacceptable. << NOPE he has never molested or sexually abused any
female, unlike the many occurring cases of Politicians, Actors, Artists etc. ..So
DEFINITELY cross that box off [X]
Misogynist: (noun) A person who dislikes, despises, or is
strongly prejudiced against women.<< ha-ha not even close! He is and
ALWAYS has been for the upliftment of women and young girls, check his lecture
record. He was even covered by a security of women called The Vanguard at two
of the Nation of Islam’s National Events titled Saviour’s Day. So again cross
that box straight off [X]
“Well he said Men are MAINTAINER’S of Women? I’m not
property!”
Maintainer: to provide for the upkeep or support of; carry
the expenses of:
We see it in typical music videos, where the male rapper or
singer has a female love interest and he gives her money or his card to go
shopping, get her nails done or do what they want. << That is a form of
maintenance is it not? Now it doesn't take away from the independent woman she
may be, but the Men do it because they want to, to show that they can and that
they are equipped to do so.
This in no way means that she is his property!
I think you catch my drift (raises right eyebrow, with
smirk) YEAYEA YEA Ms Silhouette...what about Rih, Bey and Nicki?
You watched the video right! What a bloody CHEEK??!! What possessed
this man to do this? Let alone believe he had the right? Minister Farrakhan
explains in the interview that the world is so focused on a woman’s form (as
beautiful as it is, and should be for that man deserving of it) it takes away
from the BEAUTY OF HER MIND. Today men and women alike are so focused on the
form of Beyoncé, Rihanna, Nicki, Angelina Jolie so on and so forth, that we
rarely, or it is rarely published on how smart these women are, and how far
they have come from the background of where they once were!
For Example
Besides Bey’s beauty, she has a GREAT business and financial
mind, humanitarian skills and a devoted Mother and Wife. Rihanna, again an
incredible business woman, who once upon a time back home in her native land of
Barbados rocked PUMA, and now has her own line by the name of FENTY and is the
creative director of their Women’s line. As well as many successful fragrances.
The same can also be said for Nicki Minaj, many successful fragrances and a
strong business woman and entrepreneur. One thing can be said about all these
women, is that once you put aside the beauty and the lack of clothes, if we
just focus on their mind-set, we can all agree that they all have sacrificed to
a large extent and have the discipline and work ethic that has enabled them to succeed?
That is all it is and that is all that Minister Farrakhan
was conveying and has been conveying. Modesty allows the individual whether
they are famous or not to showcase the beauty of their mind, while being
covered in such a way that does not oppress the female but celebrates the fact
that her body and or form isn’t all she has to offer. Now if that isn’t a message
that you can dig. Then I say it in the words of Vivica A. Fox from Two Can Play
That Game... “Then you just don’t know, but you better ask somebody” J
The Impact of Image & Lyrics of an Artist lasts forever
~ Fashion.Silhouette.
Thank you for this journey. Until next time my lovelies
Fashion.Silhouette. x
