Too $hort in conversation with dream hampton on Ebony Magazine’s website.

I thought in the first place that what he said (as far as I could find it transcribed) irresponsibly glossed over the matter of consent but described something that is far from abnormal behaviour between consenting partners.  I wanted to defend some element of it, but was stymied by (a) the irresponsible phrasing, (b) his crummy faux-apology mansplanation, and (c) my twenty-plus years of experience with his misogynist art limiting the extent of any benefit of the doubt I could really lend him.

But this is different.  These seem like the words of someone who is really hearing criticism, and really wants to be and do better.  This is the first time I’ve ever looked at him as an example of someone I’d like to be more like, but we ALL could hear ourselves called out with this much humility and desire to make things right.

I mean the jury’s still out on whether he’ll make any of the positive moves he indicates he’d like to, but even just for saying the above rather than another dude going “fuck you, I’ll do what I feel like,” feels really significant.

And $hort Dog, of all people!