Post by Dan the G-Man on Oct 15, 2010 21:10:14 GMT -5
Evil Boy
by Shirley Manson on Friday, October 15, 2010 at 6:46pm
My darklings.......
Check out the clip below.
It's pretty cool.
But before you do.......read the explanation below because then those of you who may (rightly so) get your knickers in a twist about what on the surface appears to be homophobic lyrics......... you will understand that the lyrics are not intended to be taken that way WHATSOEVER. It is Wanga's story. (He's the one with the dick in his shorts!)
How cool is the little chick?!??! SHe's cool as $***.
vimeo.com/15622428
READ THIS FIRST:
"So, the story behind this video and song (or part of the story -- there's so much going on!) is that Wanga felt that he was being coerced into a form of ritual circumcision by his community. It's sort of taken for granted within his ethnic group that you must do this, so much so that if you are a young man and you do not participate, you are ostracized, as the band explained to me.
The thinking, and this is communicated very directly to the young men, is that if you don't participate, you're gay. You're effeminate. You're not a real man. You never mature from being a boy to being a man.
He struggled with all of this in real life: with what it meant for his personal and cultural identity. And he came to a point where he was like, you know what? Fuck you all. The fact that I won't consent to having my penis sliced with an unsterilized knife, out in the bush, and risk infection or worse-- that doesn't mean "I'm gay," as you say. I reject this tradition. If that's what being a man is, fuck it, I don't want to be a man. I'll be an "evil boy for life," even if it means I am ostracized from my community.
You might have chosen different lyrics, but dude, it's not our story or our culture or our world experience at all.
It's his."
(As explained by editor and video maker Franck Deron)
by Shirley Manson on Friday, October 15, 2010 at 6:46pm
My darklings.......
Check out the clip below.
It's pretty cool.
But before you do.......read the explanation below because then those of you who may (rightly so) get your knickers in a twist about what on the surface appears to be homophobic lyrics......... you will understand that the lyrics are not intended to be taken that way WHATSOEVER. It is Wanga's story. (He's the one with the dick in his shorts!)
How cool is the little chick?!??! SHe's cool as $***.
vimeo.com/15622428
READ THIS FIRST:
"So, the story behind this video and song (or part of the story -- there's so much going on!) is that Wanga felt that he was being coerced into a form of ritual circumcision by his community. It's sort of taken for granted within his ethnic group that you must do this, so much so that if you are a young man and you do not participate, you are ostracized, as the band explained to me.
The thinking, and this is communicated very directly to the young men, is that if you don't participate, you're gay. You're effeminate. You're not a real man. You never mature from being a boy to being a man.
He struggled with all of this in real life: with what it meant for his personal and cultural identity. And he came to a point where he was like, you know what? Fuck you all. The fact that I won't consent to having my penis sliced with an unsterilized knife, out in the bush, and risk infection or worse-- that doesn't mean "I'm gay," as you say. I reject this tradition. If that's what being a man is, fuck it, I don't want to be a man. I'll be an "evil boy for life," even if it means I am ostracized from my community.
You might have chosen different lyrics, but dude, it's not our story or our culture or our world experience at all.
It's his."
(As explained by editor and video maker Franck Deron)