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More specifically she tells him, “You got it a couple of days ago, I got it too.”

And when we are tricked too easily, we’re deemed stupid for being gullible.īut while Walt continues to boast and beat his chest about getting one over on her, Donna does not relent. We are forced, manipulated and conquered. In short, we are supposedly not as sexual as our counterparts. But his reaction is predicated on the idea that men desire while women are convinced. In his world, he assumes that this information garners him cool points. In particular, Walt, who jumps up from the reunion sofa and begins beating his chest about how he “got it” a few days before the reunion. However, the men in the room are less than impressed. And as soon as I found my ni–a, I cut all of y’all off.” “Every negative conversation about me is because I f–ked y’all. After all, men don’t do for “hoes” what they would do for the more dignified women in their lives. It is a brazen attempt at owning her sexuality while also gaining respect. She reminds the cast that even as they knocked her for being a “hoe,” all of her sex partners had also cooked breakfast for her afterward. And she would spend the rest of the season trying to get back into Black Ink.īut in a personal rebellious act, Donna owns up to her promiscuity. Yet we know that at one point, her “behavior” had “caused” her to be called a “b-tch” and get kicked out of the shop earlier on in the season. She claims that being a tattoo artist is her dream. It is unclear whether Donna is a sex-positive feminist or if she is guilty of trying to use her sexuality as currency in the shop. During a highlight reel of some of Donna’s best moments, we witness Dutchess, who is Caesar’s fiancée, warning Donna that she is in danger of being called “Miss Loose Booty.” Like Caesar’s apprentice Donna who has been labeled a “hoe” for having sex with three other employees at the shop, including Ted, O’Sh-t and Walt. And even still, she keeps her comments pretty brief and sterile because, without those same men, she would not be on the show.īut this is not the case for other women who are more invested in the environment.

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However, it is easy for her since she no longer relies on the series for her survival. Sassy called the environment out for what it is. Sassy: Don’t act like you don’t know what I’m talking about. Sassy: It is hard to be a woman at Black Ink if you like having dignity.Ĭaesar: What you trying to say, that we are sexist or something?” An environment created by the shop owner, Caesar. The reunion show’s host, Big Tigger, asked Sassy, a supporting cast member on the show, if it was hard to be a woman in the Black Ink environment. Nothing better illustrates this than Season 4’s reunion special, which aired earlier this week. In lots of ways, Black Ink Crew is like Mad Men. While women are present in these spaces, their presence is also heavily policed, scrutinized and punished. Not only are they the main cast members on the show, but they control and dominate the spaces and environments around where the show is centered.

And in spite of what we may try to tell ourselves, there is nothing class specific about misogyny and patriarchy, nor the fight for women to claim some autonomy within or around it.īlack Ink Crew, as in all aspects of society, centers around the lives of men. Or as they call it on the streets, “realness.”įor all intents and purposes, Black Ink Crew is a microcosm of gender politics and other issues that are universally shared by all.

But what the show lacks in sophistication, it makes up for in truthfulness.

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