Word: machoes
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...Just as you said it was important for blacks to have the some cultural whacks as a white macho, wouldn't you want, say, Ron O'Neal to have the same kind of political voice as John Wayne, by the same reasoning...
...Have you seen Clayton Riley's piece in the Sunday Times? Compared to the other black films. Super Fly came off pretty well, but what he said in general was that all black films subscribe to a sort of black macho ethic which he thought was very crude in which there was a return to the law of the gun and women figure only as sexual pawns...
...agree as did Riley to some extent Now, if Super Flogets outside the macho ethic in the course of the film, what do you see as his eventual...
...feminine sensibility. It is not so much an idea as a rendezvous for a flock of adjectives: sweet, refined, minor, sensitive, nuanced, emotional, lyrical, pastel, and so on. The opposite list would be the favorite lexicon of praise for most New York painting since 1950, the attributes of the macho masterpiece: harsh, brusque, major, obsessive, direct, intellectual, tragic, primary. The result of the stereotype is an ingrained reluctance to take women artists as seriously...
...Stooges may in fact be more sexist, but it's hard to believe that anyone would ever take them seriously.) In their stage act and in most of their songs, the Stones glorify all the worst forms and aspects of current sexual behavior. Their particular kind of macho, which has at various times seemed either appealing or offensive, has by now merely grown insipid with repetition...