http://www.metafilter.com/tags/xhosa Posts tagged with 'xhosa' at MetaFilter. Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:01:48 -0800 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:01:48 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/96451/No%2DGlove%2DNo%2DLove <blockquote>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.</blockquote> Confused as to what the hell is going on in <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/88798/Im-like-all-these-different-people-fucked-into-one-person">Die Antwoord</a>'s latest (very NSFW) music video <a href="http://vimeo.com/15622428">"Evil Boy"</a> (<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/07/die-antwoord-evil-bo-1.html">lyrics</a>)? Well, it's a <a href="http://motherjones.com/riff/2010/10/die-antwoord-interview-evil-boy-video">protest</a> against <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xhosa">Xhosa</a> <a href="http://www.africanvoices.co.za/media/mginit.htm">ritual</a> <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/07/08/36-S-African-teens-die-from-circumcision/UPI-62701247029843/">male circumcision</a> (<a href="http://www.brentstirton.com/feature-xhosa.php">Photos of the ceremony</a>. <a href="http://www.ezakwantu.com/Gallery%20Lister%20Hunter%20Photo%20Set%20A%20-%20Abakwetha.htm">More photos.) <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/06/die-antwoord-evil-bo.html#comment-904235">Xeni Jardin addresses why the video may be "misinterpreted as homophobic".</a></a> tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.96451 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:01:48 -0800 abakhwetha circumcision dieantwoord evilboy fokk umkhwetha xhosa griphus