West and Wilson Deserve Each Other

I’m pretty sure that Kanye West and Joe Wilson have nothing in common. Kanye is a swaggerific hip-hop fashionista who wears Alexander McQueen suits and Yohji Yamamoto gloves, and whose vanity is only eclipsed by his ego. Joe Wilson is an extremely white, Southern Republican congressman who has never heard a Wu-Tang Clan song and who once voted against the removal of the confederate flag at South Carolina’s capital.

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There's no prince charming

One of the issues I hear most in my work with twenty-somethings (and women in general) is, “I don’t have a boyfriend/husband.”   Whether or not this is said out loud isn’t the issue, it is evident.  Women across the board are told by our culture that we need a man to be complete. Recently, this is most evident by the latest Taylor Swift song to climb the charts: Love Story.  I watched the video today and I got a huge knot in my stomach.  So many people are in love with this song, so it’s very risky for me to write this – I don’t like this song, even though it's catchy.  This blog comes at the end of a week where I saw women come into freedom.  I saw women break out of the boxes that they had put themselves in.  I want to go back to that place and create more places like that.  But here is the reality… every day on my way to work, this song is played:

Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone, I’ll be waiting… Romeo save me.
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