Rachel's Spot

so i was talking about a new book / dvd project with the super homegirl and working on a hip hop feminism entry for the encyclopedia of sex & gender (due in a few days that will be published on Macmillan in 2007). we were poking around the internet and found this "FOR THE FELLAS" on Bet.com:

so B-GIRLS, huh? it's a BET online section called FOR MEN.

B-Girls as in:
big booty girls?
bikini booty girls?
bootylicious girls?

"i don't think it stands for breathtaking" says MJ, "or beautiful, unfortunately and definitely not beloved". OH BET. how about beautiful? brilliant? brazen? bright?

is this all that BET Girls stand for?

there is a link on the comments page to "Report post as offensive". How about we report the whole site, station, and genre of eye candy / dimepiece / skin to be deaded or at least put on a pay cable channel where it belongs?

In the Minnesota Women's Press Miranda Jane writes "To be a B-Girl" --> "Originally, B-Girl meant break girl or Brox girl. Breaking is the generic term for what is formally considered B-Boying or B-Girling by hip-hop purists, used to describe the style of dance stemming from hip-hop culture which emerged in the South Bronx during the early 1970s. Toay, the term B-Girl has grown to encompass women who are directly involved with or heavily impacted by hip-hop culture."

Click the image to watch a short VIDEO:

don't let BET (mis)inform and (mis)educate you, these are real B-GIRLS!:
Asia One
Rokafella
Break Girl
We B*Girlz (Martha Cooper book)
and so many more...

---> RESOURCES on Women in Hip Hop HERE