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- From: roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Marky Mark and Calvin Klein
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.202552.4778@quantime.co.uk>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 20:25:52 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.011000.11407@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Nov12.163612.6127@wam.umd.edu> <12NOV199219421624@cc.utah.edu>
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- From November's "The Face":
-
- '"I particularly like pussy, but everyone's got their
- sexual preference. A lot of deep people [rappers] don't
- feel it's God's will, but that doesn't bother me and
- people really do have the right to do what they want.
- And if they're into me, then cool, as long as they don't
- try to offend me and are into my music.
-
- (Got that? You may lust after him as long as you like the music.)
-
- '"I know a lot of gay people and I respect them, and you
- don't have to worry about getting stuck up by a gay dude.
-
- (What does he mean by "stuck up"?)
-
- '"Yo, if you're gay you're in the house, just don't do
- that shit around me! Don't try to fuck me! Bring your
- sister though, you can watch. I respect people,
- everybody who's doing their own thing, as long as they're
- not harming anybody else by doing it."
-
- (The Face's John Godfrey continues:)
-
- 'Now clasping his dick so tight the veins on his arms are
- sticking out like pipe cleaners, he answers without
- hesitation and with genuine warmth. The fact that Marky
- Mark is not homophobic shouldn't come as a surprise, but
- it does. Hip hop culture is not noted for its concern
- for lesbians and gays, and make no mistake, Marky Mark
- _is_ a rapper. It's just that the only people who pay
- him "props" [proper respect] are other rappers. To
- everybody else he is a pop icon, fashion icon and now gay
- icon.'
-
- (So there you go.)
- --
- Roger Phillips roger@quantime.co.uk
- "*duckshove* (Austr. and N.Z., coll.) to jump a queue (orig. of
- taxi-drivers): to cheat: to steal: to avoid responsibilities"
- -- Chambers English Dictionary (1988)
-