Is it? I got the impression in the pub it was one of those rumours which everyone knows…but I dunno, it’d still probably be a Brit novelty, which would still be fairly abhorrent to me, because there wouldn’t be any humour-from-within (as there would be if it was an actual dancehall artist), it’d be a bunch of unfunny Brits taking the piss out of both dancehall and gays b/c a) bumsex is so HILARIOUS isn’t it, and b) ooh look at this moral high horse we can climb on because no matter how unreconstructed our own attitudes we’re still better than those backwards Jamaicans…
Which may or may not have been Allen’s (or whoever’s) intentions but that’s what I get from him and his ilk in everything they do. I don’t know how tenable this position is but I would definitely say that there are some things that only some people should do, no matter how ‘convincing’ others can be; imagine Lady Sov or Kiley Dean (both of whom have been mistaken for black artists) dropping the n-bomb for instance.
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Date: 2007-06-14 03:25 pm (UTC)Which may or may not have been Allen’s (or whoever’s) intentions but that’s what I get from him and his ilk in everything they do. I don’t know how tenable this position is but I would definitely say that there are some things that only some people should do, no matter how ‘convincing’ others can be; imagine Lady Sov or Kiley Dean (both of whom have been mistaken for black artists) dropping the n-bomb for instance.