Word: hurtfulness
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...surly Many: the usual strength and speed, plus acute hearing, no need for sleep WEAKNESSES An aversion to stakes, crosses, garlic, holy water and beheading Immune to garlic and stakes. But they do burn in sunlight They turn to dust when staked in the heart. Sunlight and holy water hurt too Not many. Your best bet is to cut one up and burn the pieces IF YOU MEET ONE... Run. Dracula is evil, persistent and hungry. And he likes the ladies Who knows? Rice's bloodsuckers are frequently perverse and amoral Again: run. Vamps are demonic, so they...
...While some artists have released misogynistic yet innovative hip-hop, some argue that this doesn’t condone potentially offensive subject matter. Byron Hurt, director of the film “Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” recognizes that while certain songs can have artistic merit and contain negative lyrics, that doesn’t justify misogyny. “We need to have artists second-guess creating lyrics that are anti-woman in the same way that they would second-guess writing something that is anti-Semitic,” Hurt says...
...film looks at the ways in which males in hip-hop culture portray an exaggerated image of what masculinity is. Like many others, Hurt believes that the focus on misogyny and homophobia in hip-hop overwhelms its more creative aspects, but that the solution to this problem goes beyond merely creating more positive hip-hop. “That’s like saying, ‘I don’t like racism, but we just need more not racist things said,’” Hurt says...
...Hurt misses the late 1980s, the period in which he says the most substantive hip-hop was being created. Short of going back in time, Hurt wants to see the music’s negative aspects eliminated; such a move would result in what he calls a “new, brilliant black genre...
...feel like there are a lot of people who are not happy with where hip-hop is and a lot of people long for it to go back to the days when hip-hop had more substance,” Hurt says. “People are very nostalgic about...