Thank you. To not realize there’s a bit more going on than just riding a cheap wave, is like thinking a Larry Harvey doesn’t know what he’s doing it’s all just happenstance.

I’ve always said, all overnight sensations were proceeded by ten years of hard work. Here’s some more proof of that.

These guys go places and then bring it all back.

Someone said it before me, ‘that shit is dope!’

pure aoxomoxoa ~!~

South Africa has a growing educated and liberal youth of all cultures and colours who are struggling to define their identity in the aftermath of the blight that was Apartheid. Die Antwoord speaks to that part of myself which is both proud of my own culture (which happens to be Afrikaans) and proud of the cultures of my countrymen, because we are all South African.

Oh and to clear something up, when Yolandi talks about no glove/no love you can be fairly certain she is referring to condom use, not circumcision. South African have it drummed into their heads at school and through the media that we should always insist on condoms since we have the highest incidence of HIV in the world.

Despite this there are pervasive myths surrounding the use of condoms for example having unprotected sex with a virgin will cure AIDS (This has encouraged the rape of young women and even children. A woman was raped in South Africa every 17 seconds. This does not include the number of child rape victims. Around 30% of South Africans report that their first sexual experience was forced.)

Given these statistics Yolandi’s girl-power message holds special significance for a generation of South African women who fight a losing battle for equality and freedom from abuse.

This video is all about being sex positive and about demanding your right to choose what you do with your body – a human right that is still not sufficiently entrenched in South African culture.

I’m a bisexual woman from Johannesburg in South Africa who lost her virginity to condomless statutory rape, and I think this video f$#king rocks!

Oh, and “may be misinterpreted” may be the understatement of the year.

http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-sex–3/imbalu-circumcision-party-1-of-2–3

Would be interesting to do a boing boing survey, and see where people are from (though I guess you could also just check google analytics).

I think teen cutting is evil, but I also recognize my
cultural centrism. But, I’ll defend it. I admire
the singer if he has repelled his culture, because I also dislike it. (And have, like many readers, much sympathy for ‘outsiders’
who question their culture and endure the consequences). I *will* say its wrong to force this or any such mutilation on any unwilling, whitemalish of me to say so, so blatantly.

To me (and a zillion other libs), morality is all about coercion.

BTW thanks for the fuller explanation XJ.

Musicwise, we differ, but that’s ok.

BTW, what happened to Yo-Landi & Ninja’s kid, mentioned in a
video previous mentioned here?

Also, this video needs more dick.

The thinking, and this is communicated very directly to the young men, is that if you don’t participate, you’re gay. You’re effeminate. You’re not a real man. You never mature from being a boy to being a man.

He struggled with all of this in real life: with what it meant for his personal and cultural identity. And he came to a point where he was like, you know what? Fuck you all. The fact that I won’t consent to having my penis sliced with an unsterilized knife, out in the bush, and risk infection or worse– that doesn’t mean “I’m gay,” as you say. I reject this tradition. If that’s what being a man is, fuck it, I don’t want to be a man. I’ll be an “evil boy for life,” even if it means I am ostracized from my community.

You might have chosen different lyrics, but dude, it’s not our story or our culture or our world experience at all.

It’s his.

Personally, I don’t see a problem with a voluntary rite of passage, brutal as it might seem. If you are down with it, it’s your body, rock on with your bad ass self.

It’s the compulsory aspect, and social stigma that comes with exercising your right to honor and respect your body in a way of your choosing, when it’s different from your social peers, that I think is in need of fixing.

In a way, it’s no different than these neo-straightedge douchebags coming down on folks with different lifestyles.

The defining mindset of freedom is do what you like, so long as you don’t hurt anybody, or try to force it down MY throat.

Me, personally, I didn’t have a choice about whether to keep my foreskin. I’m not jewish, but they cut it off before I had a voice. Is it a bad thing? I don’t know, I’ve never had a foreskin, so I couldn’t tell you what I’m missing. A little smegma at the very least, I guess.

I can respect that this cultural practice is, ultimately, voluntary. Sort of like the anabaptist religions that require a person to accept their creed as an adult, rather than sprinkling something on their forehead as an infant and trying to say that counts for something.

But you know what? People are douchebags. We’re evil, vile, selfish creatures looking for any way to feel better about ourselves, even at the expense of others. I’ve had misinformed people accuse me of possessing diminished manhood simply because I don’t drink or do drugs any more.

So be it. Judgments like that speak volumes more about the person bringing them than the person they’re aimed at. We’re different, have different opinions and perspectives, and that’s okay. There’s room for everybody, even the douchebags.

You might want to slap a “NSFW” tag on there.

Yeah, when the subject involved in this sort of cultural practice is female, we hear the phrase “female genital mutilation” tossed around. This is basically the same sort of cultural practice as clitorectomy, and one young man’s reaction to that.

Same reason they chose to show the amputee’s stumps in Zef Side.

Yolandi’s t*ts are obviously a big draw too, so they did a reveal there too, didn’t they? Looked perfectly round to me, with insertion scars at the bottom, though that could’ve been a seam from the special effects.

Hey, they’ve put that bait front and center from day one, I’m hardly sexist or a perv’ for noticing. Similar to the “junk slang” (LOL, funny term!) in Zef Side.

I dunno, pouring-on so many of the porn elements kinda diminishs from the art, for me; it’s kind of a cheap method, and insultingly obvious. And, it will work, in Puritanical America. Wait for the right-wing to call ‘em out as Satan’s Spawn!… (for which, they also provided a pentagram, in the B&D scene.)

Can’t blame the gang for wanting to cash in though, not in the least. Ride that wave, Waddy and Yolandi, ride it! And you have BoingBoing to thank, in major ways!

My country, it’s run by asshats.

These kids today are finally on to something.