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Portrayals of Single Women by Tyler Perry, letters to Perry and to all Black men, and a discussion on whether you could be single forever

Letter love: SingleinAtlanta’s blog posts a letter to all black men from all black women and The Beautiful Struggler writes in Open Letter to Tyler Perry.

I have MAJOR issues with Tyler Perry’s Portrayals of women, in particular SINGLE BLACK woman. In Perry’s world, single black women are all struggling with children and drug habits or success has made them so arrogant and classless a man would never want to touch them. In either case, all we need to do is find a man who will rescue us.

Courtney Young writes a wonderful article on Perry for The Nation (my favorite magazine) and does a GREAT job of capturing many of my feelings on Tyler Perry and his work.

Tyler Perry’s “Daddy’s Little Girls” gives me the same feeling that this stereotypical, over the top and extremely offensive video I ran across on facebook originally uploaded to DimeWars provided me with.  To some it will be hilarious, to others like myself, it will be disturbing.  The video is entitled “The Adventures of Tameka the Arrogant African American Professional Who Can’t Keep Man.”  Darn, the title gives it all away!

Over on the blog, the newest article is on whether or not you could be Happily Single forever. I am curious to hear people’s thoughts. I hear some people say it they’d be fine, others like me…not so much.