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Friday, May 28, 2004 np: gift of gab - 4th dimensional rocketships going up if you're a fan of blackalicious, the new gift of gab solo album is definitely up your alley. my initial spins have it engraved somewhere well below the majesty of something like blazing arrow (one of the very few hip hop records that makes 75 minutes seem too short), but the gift of gab, who lives up to every inch of his name, is one of hip-hops most effortless lyricists. if there is anyone who is consistantly and endlessly a joy to listen to, he is clearly in that short, short list. i also finally picked up the dizzee rascal full length. it's quite a dizzying listen at first, leaving you completely unable to make sense of it by the end of the first spin. but repeated listens dig up some really poignant moments among the seeming east london chaos. and i never thought i'd see anyone sample billy squire so successfully. - michael moore explored the question of america's violent culture in bowling for columbine, but in the short run was unable to come up with an answer. of course, establishing an answer wasn't necessarily the point of the film. but i read a post in a journal elsewhere that posited the question: 'i wonder if men are more inherently violent than women because they don't see their blood once a month?' questions like this always get my dander up and i usually have to take a moment to calm down before attempting to reply. my immediate reply ignored the last half of that question in order to look at her assumption that men really are 'inherently' more violent than women. basically, i find that assumption faulty. i think that all of our ideas of the violence appropriated to gender come from within our culture. cultures, societies breed violence; not gender. how else can one explain people who step outside of those boundaries? amazon warriors. quaker pacifists. english suffragettes. martin luther king jr. and mahatma ghandi. all of these examples stood outside of the idea of 'women' or 'men,' being respectively less or more violent than the other. so, much like moore's unanswered question of what leads to america's violent status, i ask what is it in typical western societies (i don't feel qualified enough to speak outside of that narrow realm) that leads to men seeming to be more violent? this isn't even to tackle the question of how we are going to define violence. do we only define it as a physical attack on persons? or do we accept that violence can be verbal, mental or means other than physical? leave your comments, please. posted by J. Neas | 5/28/2004 11:09:00 AM
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