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...components contributing to this rape culture are present from childhood. Whether it is the physical violence we may witness in our homes, see on television, sing along to in our popular rock and rap songs, the message is clear--violence as a form of communication is natural, praise-worthy and masculine. Throughout our adolescence and notably in our schools, the voices of women are silenced, and men are taught that they are entitled to power and the validation of their opinions. But the perpetrators are not men. Rather, the responsible party is the system to which both women...
...free up nursing mothers for breeding; orangutans will resort to rape if their mating overtures are rebuffed; rival gangs of chimpanzees may wage bloody border wars to protect their turf or enlarge their harems. And the evolutionary big brother of all these creatures, the human male, has a rap sheet that's too long to contemplate...
...shooting of rap-music star Tupac Shakur should not be viewed as a tragedy [NATION, Sept. 23]. Although it is unfortunate that one more person has fallen victim to gang violence, Shakur was no more important than the thousands of others who die from such violence every year. Music like his has contributed to America's violent gang culture. Gang members are finally reaping what they have sown. Shakur's death only serves as proof that he was not in fact an artist. Art has positive social aspects, which are badly missing from gangsta rap. DAVID FABRYCKY Wheaton, Illinois...
...Pressler fever is not exactly burning up the prairies. Despite his lofty education, Pressler has long had a reputation in Washington as an intellectual lightweight, a rap that is by now well known to the voters back home. And critics in South Dakota say their senior Senator, after 18 years of cozying up to lobbyists, has "gone Washington." Six years ago, he scraped by with a 19,000-vote victory against an underfunded Democrat...
...wake of the still unsolved murder of Shakur, all eyes have been on Knight, 30. He is a major player in the world of pop music--Death Row is rap's most successful label--and he is a key figure in the life, and death, of Shakur, a young rapper villainized by millions and idolized by millions more...