Have some young lesbians taken a cue from mainstream rap on how to treat women?
Tracy Clark-Flory Apr. 16, 2007 | This Village Voice piece was e-mailed around the office with the subject line: “Ugh.” You need only read through the lead to see why: We’re transported to a Brooklyn, N.Y., nightclub on a Friday night, where a butch bartender spies her “femme girlfriend” getting hit on by a woman wearing “boyish hip-hop gear.” The bartender hops the bar, pushes her way to “her woman” and gives her “a rough, disapproving shake,” before dragging “her quarry back to the bar, where the girlfriend will remain standing in silence the rest of the night.” Siya, a 20-year-old rapper, says that’s standard fare for “AGs” — or “aggressive” lesbians: “It’s a property thing.” At all times a femme girlfriend “could be looking around, searching for a flyer AG,” she says. The “bitches ain’t shit,” crotch-grabbing swagger of some mainstream rappers has been adopted within this particular lesbian subculture, according to the Voice. AGs employ rappers’ typical chest-thumping declarations
