No, this white girl isn't going off on this topic. I direct you instead to read tiffany's post that she says could also be titled "Why More Black People Should Be Feminists." Snippet:

Linda Malone-Colon’s comment about “domestic justice� in William Rasberry’s Monday column got me to thinking about the state of black American marriages, and wondering if a re-orientation of black manhood — well American manhood generally, but I’m starting where I can — is in order.

I read somewhere once that black women and men have different attitudes towards marriage. Where black women (generally) believe in marital / domestic / gender equality, black men adhere to a more traditional man-as-head-of-household belief. Or as it’s more conventionally put, black women “don’t let a man be a man.�

She makes some pointed observations (highly recommended!), provides some linky goodness, and then wraps up with the perfect caveat emptor:

Before you get your drawers in a knot or accuse me of being a man-hater (such a clichéd, unoriginal accusation) please do the following:

1. Check the definition of mythology.

2. Stop taking it as a personal attack and view it instead as a critique of the culture in which we all operate.

3. Re-read the entire post and make sure that what I said and what you think I said are in as much alignment as possible.

You could pretty much tack that on the end of any post that questions the assumptions of male privilege and the fragile male ego, whatever the racial demographic.

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