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Eminem pisses off…well, everyone

8:10 pm By la Macha · Controversia|Family|Violence|Women

13 Apr 2009

Being from the same state as Eminem–I have a love/hate relationship with him. On the one hand, I love seeing somebody from home succeed, on the other hand…DAYMN. Does he have to be such an offensive asshole?

Here’s his latest song/video (pissed off trigger warning–I’m not kidding when I say that this video will more than likely piss you off, don’t watch unless you’re ready for it!):

Eminem gets just enough disparaging mocking stuff on himself that I think we’re all supposed to laugh and not *truly* be offended. And honestly, I think that I would be not *truly* offended if it weren’t for the image of the woman being shoved through the grinder. I know he is referencing this old Hustler cover (NSFW and potentially triggering)–but frankly, there are some things that just never should be referenced except in a disparaging sense. Especially given the fact that women are being murdered in his own home state. It’s one thing to make fat jokes and gross druggie jokes, it’s another thing all together to introduce a whole new generation of men to the idea that violence against women is a joke or “ironic” or hip.

And on a side note, I notice that Eminem hasn’t had much to say about how domestic violence is treated within the hip/hop community. And it’s not like women in the hip/hop community haven’t demanded that domestic violence be addressed. And frankly, until Eminem can see fit to support the female hip/hopers out there, he can take his “irony” and his “sarcasm” and shove it.

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5 Responses to Eminem pisses off…well, everyone

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Maegan La Mala

April 13th, 2009 at 8:17 pm

Ah my eyes!!! Seriously I would have skipped that whole thing pero I wanted to understand your analysis mejor.

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Stephen

April 13th, 2009 at 10:44 pm

I liked it. it was funny. ha ha. you take life too serious.

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Kaytee

April 14th, 2009 at 2:54 am

I love the song an the video.. People need to relax eminem is a funny dude who cares.. I think it’s all funny and I’m sure the people who he sings about don’t even care as much as all these yuppies crying about the video.

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Maegan la Mala

April 14th, 2009 at 7:10 am

Are you saying Macha’s criticism is coming from her yuppiness cuz um yeah you’re wrong.

It makes me so sad that within minutes of this post going up, some hateful, anti-mujer comments came in, kind of proving Macha’s point

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