Lil’ Wayne’s new album that is being released digitally on iTunes today should be called “Women Aren’t Human Beings” instead of “I Am Not a Human Being.” His new song “Gonorrhea” captures how bad sexism in hip hop can really get. In the song’s verses he engages in the age-old strategy of vilifying an unknown opponent by likening him to a bitch, a word that has become a synonym for women for the umpteenth time. You see this tactic in a line like “you’s a bitch like zeta phi beta muthafucker,” a reference to members of the historically black sorority which includes greats such as Zora Neale Hurston or Violette Anderson, the first African American attorney.

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