Comments on: ‘Runaway’ by Ludacris with Mary J. Blige video http://www.rethinkresources.net/2007/03/05/%e2%80%98runaway%e2%80%99-by-ludacris-with-mary-j-blige-video/ rethink your ideas about youth in the sex trade Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:55:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Victoria Marinelli http://www.rethinkresources.net/2007/03/05/%e2%80%98runaway%e2%80%99-by-ludacris-with-mary-j-blige-video/#comment-4 Victoria Marinelli Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:53:24 +0000 http://www.rethinkresources.net/2007/03/05/%e2%80%98runaway%e2%80%99-by-ludacris-with-mary-j-blige-video/#comment-4 Well, there you go with your nuanced understandings of stuff. :) I totally hear what you're saying, it's just hard for me to disengage from knee-jerk reaction impulses at times. And for the record, the <em>Runaway</em> video and song made me cry, too, so my response wasn't entirely cynical. P.S. My seven-year-old got up from bed and came out into the living room as I was playing the youtube file you linked in your comment. Um, <em>awkward</em>! Well, there you go with your nuanced understandings of stuff. :) I totally hear what you’re saying, it’s just hard for me to disengage from knee-jerk reaction impulses at times. And for the record, the Runaway video and song made me cry, too, so my response wasn’t entirely cynical.

P.S. My seven-year-old got up from bed and came out into the living room as I was playing the youtube file you linked in your comment. Um, awkward!

]]> By: Claudine http://www.rethinkresources.net/2007/03/05/%e2%80%98runaway%e2%80%99-by-ludacris-with-mary-j-blige-video/#comment-2 Claudine Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:03:31 +0000 http://www.rethinkresources.net/2007/03/05/%e2%80%98runaway%e2%80%99-by-ludacris-with-mary-j-blige-video/#comment-2 I think Chris Bridges (aka Ludacris) is sincere in his efforts to address youth who run away. Even more so I respect Mary J. Blige who partnered with him in the video. That he is someone who has performed songs derogatory to people in the sex trade makes him more complicated. The song you reference isn't even close to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M6xjTX0hNs" rel="nofollow">some</a>. In the song you mention he's more talking "pimpin" as living an expensive lifestyle with no hint of sex for money. But youth in the sex trade see themselves as complicated too. They may see the fun of partying even if they know that some girls, including themselves, may be assaulted at the same parties. They may distance themselves from girls they label as "hos" and "just nasty" even if they realize that people may include them in those same insults. They remember some of their own actions positively and others with regret. I think Chris Bridges (aka Ludacris) is sincere in his efforts to address youth who run away. Even more so I respect Mary J. Blige who partnered with him in the video.

That he is someone who has performed songs derogatory to people in the sex trade makes him more complicated. The song you reference isn’t even close to some. In the song you mention he’s more talking “pimpin” as living an expensive lifestyle with no hint of sex for money. But youth in the sex trade see themselves as complicated too.

They may see the fun of partying even if they know that some girls, including themselves, may be assaulted at the same parties. They may distance themselves from girls they label as “hos” and “just nasty” even if they realize that people may include them in those same insults. They remember some of their own actions positively and others with regret.

]]> By: Victoria Marinelli http://www.rethinkresources.net/2007/03/05/%e2%80%98runaway%e2%80%99-by-ludacris-with-mary-j-blige-video/#comment-3 Victoria Marinelli Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:34:04 +0000 http://www.rethinkresources.net/2007/03/05/%e2%80%98runaway%e2%80%99-by-ludacris-with-mary-j-blige-video/#comment-3 See, but how to deal with the cognitive dissonance in the fact that this is the same dude who wrote <em>Pimpin' All Over the World</em>? (And you <em>know</em> I've been mulling over this question for as long as you've had this blog entry posted, right? Yes, it takes me near 6 months to articulate, well, <em>anything</em>...) See, but how to deal with the cognitive dissonance in the fact that this is the same dude who wrote Pimpin’ All Over the World?

(And you know I’ve been mulling over this question for as long as you’ve had this blog entry posted, right? Yes, it takes me near 6 months to articulate, well, anything…)

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