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Well said rootzgirl. I always took umbrage to some of these stupid songs with so-called lyrics degrading women. I never understood why women just accept it, and not reject it and take a stand against it.

I think its the same reason why they openly share men and have no qualms about it. Low self esteem.

kind of interesting that a blogger who's whining about derogatory names towards females would use a highly sexualized cartoon picture of a female to put beside her name.

i believe the phrase goes "pot calling the kettle black"

I Think part of the problem is the way some women DECIDE to PRESENT themselves, for instance, the photo Ms.roots DECIDED to choose to REPRESENT herslf. A Rasta women, in skimpy attire, tattoos, and a spliff in her mouth. Yes we women must always represent ourselves as the royal beings we are. And Men will respect you. Most men treat women how they allow themselves to be treated.

I agree with you 100% I wonder why no one has responded to this.

Amen Rootz!!!

@ §weeTuth i agree with you...

I never agreed with calling women calling our sisters B*s.

Now as for skettel and hoes. I am not sure which songs you are referring to. I remember T.O.K.'s song "She's a ho" And Bassie said "Bad man don't want no skettel." There is nothing wrong with saying that. A woman is not supposed to be a ho/skettel in the first place.

Deteronomy 23:17 "There shall be on whore of the daughters of Israel"

Whore/ho same thing.

Now if there is a song saying that all women are hoes/skettels or they use the word ho/skettel like they do with the "B" word, then I would have a problem with that.

One more thing.....

Women are never supposed to open up their mouths to let their "loud voices be heard." A woman is not supposed to be loud.

"Proverbs 9:13 A foolish woman is clamorous, she is simple and knoweth nothing."

There are ways to get respect besides being loud. Try being godly for one.

This is what I'm talking about.........Big Up Roots Gal, These are the topics that the young ladies dem need fi read....Mad respect fi this one!!!!

Anyways I'm am one of the females that get sick when I hear B*tch or Hoe and I do do catch myself at times using these words when I'm pissed off at another chick...however its still wrong and eveyday I try harder not to use these words...

We have to empower our females and let them know that these are not the correct words that should be used to describe them and their day to day activities, tell this to our sons ...our daughters...let it start at home....., no woman deserves to be called these words.....

Men I know that some of yu may say...Why change??? When there are chicks that are out there that ..Calls themselves these names(use to big up themselves) and When alot women today at like the scum of the earth.
BUT MEMBA THIS YU HAVE A MOTHER!!! Respect that!!!

Roots Girl, you can make a start to such terms by changing the pic, you are currently displaying for your column.
Every one has a right to their opinion and choice of music, and just because you listen to something at party and the "snaps" were pretty cool, Does not mean that I am loosing respect for myself or any other woman.
A song is a song, and until we all realise that music should not influence your doings then every one can actually start thinking for themselves.
I am sick and tired of ppl thinking that just because someone with the power of a micro phone says something, you dont have to follow.
Lyrics are just that Lyrics. They may make you laugh or cry...Feel like dancing. Keep it at that Nuh...just enjoy the moment and stop itting out against something that you are clearly a huge part of...Or change your column picture to compliment your Thought!!!

nowthe aritst them our jamaican artist who don't make much money u want them to stop when this just tump you last night eediot gyal they don't mean it american artist yes but not our jamaican ones this it coming from a woman(or i think)whos picture is of a half naked woman smoking a spliff
with dreads NO REAL RASTA WOMAN SHOW OFF A PIECE OF SKIN FROM DEM BODIES ANY RASTA WOMAN WEH DO DAT ANNUH REAL RASTA

god blass

MARK B. I have to respond to you. You say us women are not supposed to open our mouths and "let our loud voices be heard". It sounds to me like your from the caveman days, maybe even before then. You say to try being Godly instead, well I guess the female pastors who shout and "raise there voices to be heard" at the alter, are in no way Godly huh? maybe only a male pastor in this position is Godly and allowed to do this. Get over yourself, and please read the bible clearly before you come on here trying to quote it to support your foolish theories, especially the ones where you want us women to keep quiet. I'm not a loud woman, but trust me, I refuse to let any man step over me, or step on my rights as a woman, especially my freedom of speech!

Dugu Dugu!!!!
Dugu Dugu!!!!
Dugu Dugu!!!!!
and all u UN LEARNED FELLAS

LET MI SKUL YU BOUT REAL RASTA OOMAN DEM

MI WIL START FROM DI LAND WEH RASTA WAS BORN
ETHIOPIA

THE LAND OF SOLOMON AND SHEBA

DO U HAVE ANY IDEA THAT WEARING CLOTHES CAME IN THE PICTURE VERY RECENTLY????????????????????
???????????????????????????????????????????
??????????????
OBVIOUSLY U KNOW NOTIN BOUT RASTA SO THIS IS Y MI WILLIN FI TEK U TO MI FREE SKUL

BACK IN AFRICA THE LAND OF REAL RASTA

OOMAN ALWAYS USED TO WALK AROUND NAKED ONLY COVERIN HER FRONT ENTRANCE WIT A LIKKLE PIECE A ANIMAL SKIN OR LEAFS

AND ALSO HER ASS
AND GUESS WA????????????????
???????????????????????????

HER BREASTS WERE ALWAYS OUT FOR SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS IS AFRICA FOR YU IDIOTS WHO KNOW NOT THE TRU RASTA BIZNIS

AND EVEN AS I WRITE THIS THERE ARE STILL CERTAIN COUNTRIES IN AFRIKA SPECIFICALLY THE EAST OF AFRIKA

WHERE WOMAN STIL HONOR THERE CULTURE AND KNOW NOTIN BOUT CLOTHES...

SO BEFORE U START CHAT FOOLISHNESS AND SHOW HOW MUCH EDUCATION U GET INA U MAIZE PLANTATION

CHECK OUT REAL HISTORY

MI CAN TESTIFY SEH DI QUEEN A SHEBA NEVER IMPRESS SOLOMON WHILE TOTALLY COVERED

KNOW YOUR HISTORY

ok ROOTZGIRL lets get technical here, first u protray ur self as a rasta girl half naked showing ur *ss and most of ur breast, rasta woman wear covering clothing wit sandals slippers, tie hair, u smoke big split, i dont see the woman smoking that bold they r always looking spritual. SECONDLY VYBZ KARTEL is my dj i find most of his slack songs enjoying, u r critizing his words, but yet u r doing the actions, which is slacker 'singing about it' are 'doing it' u are an adult if u find one's song rude, please try other songs and leave those who enjoy it only, u have a choice here,no one is telling u to excepted these words if it offended u,different people different likes

rootsy...do you realise that your image on yardflex pages looks like a skettel, hoe and tek b*ddy junky gal?

what is in that spliff anyway? who knows? the only people I ever imagine to be smoking and looking like you, would be smoking crack in their spliff, because they don't even have enough time to put on clothes before lighting up. It is a junky desperate gotta have it now vibe.

what r**s would carry herself like that?

and those calling this rootsgirl a ras - need to get a life and a clear definition of rastafari woman

do you somehow condone posing like a hoe, skettel and tek b**ddy junky girl while you preach something else? Or did the songs force you to dress and carry yourself like that - or have yourself represented in such a lewd looking way?

i saw your photo and since i am in no denial about the fact that there is such a thing as "The Sex Industry" - i just accepted you as another uninhibited sis who has nuff raw and nasty things to chat about all the time!!!!!!!!!!!!

practice what you preach girl...or come out from under your alias when youfeel like writing about the things that seem to influence you (and i say that again because of the way you choose to represent yourself in the photo on this site)

by that i see that hoes, skettels and tek b*ddy gals really influenced your sense of style

A true star, woman must take a stand Rasta.

reality are u sure your name is not "roots girl having a hairy canary because folk have peeped her play"?

get a grip - rasta was born out of JAMAICA honey chile

nowhere in jamaican culture do women hang around dressed like you and call themself rasta

u must be want king man dem flip right up!!!

we love and respect african heritage and culture but mi dear - no where in africa does the culture promote women smoking weed with no clothes on and big tattoos and especially carrying on with the discussions that you like to keep

the artists can tone down on the rawness yes, but we the consumer love it up or it woulda stop already

u never know sey sex sells

take for example t pain's LOW - me love da tune dey, but me no love de strippin low low business, but the song is reality and hype no hell

only some real hoes get offended by those things - because the system have them operating in the dark, so in the light - they act like they are regular people and gwaan like they are disgusted by some tunes (sort of like you rootzgirl)

just like real gays get offended by gay bashing music

Reality...Cut the crap, seriously speaking there is a difference between AFRICAN culture and SKETS.
I had to scroll up to take another good look at the pic, because I thought for a second maybe REALITY aka ROOTZ is not so off...and all I saw was sex, I watch Discovery/travel channel, and TLC and never has any of those African women look like that.
They dont parade around like that, and ok so they have on leaves and their breasts are out. They also dont believe in the "now" so you are violating by using teh computer the internet the gateway to all that is bad.
Lets get this straight, I am eduacted (very)or so my degrees say, and I like music and I dont care what the lyrics say, if I like it I like it...just because Public Enemy says Kill the white man, doesnt mean I am going to wait till my grand dad is sleeping and murder him...GET A MIND OF YOUR OWN.
STOP HIDING BEHIND AFRICA, and the africans, PLEASE!!!

I'n ga lie... straight up n point black "Reality" u sounded NOT very "intelligent" jus na.

1st ya talk bout where d movement came bout from, which was wrong and someone please correct me if i wrong but I thought it emerge out of Jamaica sumtime in the 1930's???

dennnnn u come tryin to COMPARE da pic u have up wid certain African cultures, NOT very convincing from d get go! "use ta do dis, n use ta do dat" blah! you let a Empress try dat in dese dayz n time see wha her own Kingman ga say bout it!
n through a source I read (with regards to da Nyahbinghi movement n d Empresses apparel) it gone sumtine like dis:

"She must be attired in modest apparel at all times and must not wear pants or revealing garments. Her head must be covered during an I-semble or when congregating among the brethren or outside her gates"

n i sure da same applies too d other mansions Tweleve Tribe or Bobo Shanti's, alike....

now u tell me which mansion you upholdin PLEASE so I cud go ta d Elda dem n inquire cuz u only, chile i'n even kno wha ta say u trynna prove....

OTHERRRRR dan dat... I see where u comin from wid ya blog doe...more life
Idance n Itection.

If a person don't like gun ,slack tunes an for that mAtter they ban dem how the artist that sing them going to eat food most cultural songs good but everybody no like cultural you'll are trying to take fun out of everything even passa passa they trying to cut short i dont see nothing wrong with it .

i think in all,women should respect themselves and believe in who they are in society.decently dressed women earn lots of respect coz thez obviously know what they want and have.

i think in all,women should respect themselves and believe in who they are in society.decently dressed women earn lots of respect coz they obviously know what they want and have.