pimps up, wife-beaters down
American pop culture has embraced the pimp in schizoid inverse proportion to its demonization of the wife-beater. While smirking hipsters routinely hold "Pimps and Hos" parties, none of them would be caught dead throwing a "Wife-beaters and Battered Women" soirée. That's JUST NOT COOL, dude.
Divorced from reality as they are, it probably hasn't dawned on them that PIMPS ROUTINELY BEAT WOMEN, probably more often and more severely than the most dedicated domestic batterer. And even worse, the pimp sucks money from those women, while the average bitch-smacker is more likely to PROVIDE for Poor Li'l Black Eyes when he isn't using her as a punching bag.
So why do the pimps get off scot-free?
The most obvious answer is that pimps are commonly perceived to be black, and even in the face of all contrary evidence, one cannot allege that any blacks anywhere do anything wrong—EVER—without being tarred-and-feathered by people who wish they were black. Even if there isn't a white man within ten miles of the incident of bitch-slapping in question, we all know that the White Man made the brutha do it.
Another reason might be that the wife-beater simply doesn't go far enough. As Dostoevsky noted, men who only kill once or twice are known as murderers, while those who kill a thousand are called kings.
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The Jim Goad Embroidered Pillow Thing is for sale. Thank God I cost more than The White Stripes.
