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Today in Singled Out Week of September 1st
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.
Making the Most of Singled-Out
I envision Singled Out becoming a regular place of discussion for visitors…if that happens it will accomplish a few goals.
1. It will increase the likelihood of respectful comments and behavior between visitors.
2. It will ensure that I incorporate content that readers will appreciate and find useful.
A few tips on how to achieve this goal…
1. Don’t be afraid to leave comments, and check the box that says you’d like to follow additional comments/subscribe to the RSS feed. That way you have prompt notification of what others are saying about posts on which you’ve commented and possibly what others are saying about your comment. Also, I read blog comments and use the discussions on the comments help drive content additional content.
2. Take the Singled Out Survey…it’s short (only 10 questions) and will be very helpful to me! You can also leave feedback by emailing me at singledout@writeme.com, or by using the comment section on this post.
3. If you are on twitter, be sure to follow me (twitter.com/sojdanielle). It’s a good way to find out when the site has been updated especially if you prefer twitter over email feed.
4. Subscribe to Single-Out’s YouTube channel: www.Youtube.com/sojdanielle. The youtube channel is where I will be posting all the episodes of the Single Out talk shows. I promise you, you won’t want to miss the interviews I post!
5. Finally, I know this sounds weird, but get a gravatar if you don’t have one, from www.gravatar.com. No, they are not paying me. 
But I find the gravatars help build a sense of community even if you aren’t using a personal picture. However, alot of people on the site will be single so it might not hurt to advertise yourself! They take about 2 minutes to create and whenever you use your email address in the comment box it will automatically show the gravatar you’ve chosen. Right now mine is my face…but sometimes I use my legs! hehe
6. In the comment box, when it asks for your web site, you may want to consider linking your facebook/myspace/Ning etc. somewhere that allows other commentors to see you if you don’t have your own blog or website to promote. This is assuming you are making comments you don’t mind being associated with!
Leave a comment if you think of other ways we can ensure this is a respectful and useful community.