NoWayGirlTV

Don't you hate being labeled? I know I do. And labeling websites isn't always easy either. In this case, damn near impossible. I wasn't at all sure what I was looking at when I arrived, and hunted in vain for the clues that would be on offer at the "about us" page that turned out not to be there. And that left me puzzling over how to set about describing this in some race-neutral, gender-neutral, politically correct way, which I am led to understand is what the American audience expects in these enlightened days.

Nope, it can't be done. So I might as well tell it straight. This is a collection of embarrassing photos of black women, no doubt largely sourced from Facebook and everyone's least memorable party shoots. It's not racist, being obviously run as a black site for black people. But "No way, girl" has no pretense to sexual equality, being as it is, entirely aimed at ridiculing women who should never have been found in these situations, never mind being photographed in them. How do I describe this in words? Nope, images speak louder. Try pasting this into your browser, for a solid example: http://bit.ly/brQ4xK

The site is the child of another, similar project at www.ghettopolice.com, which is slightly easier to label but not by much, and which I might have reviewed next had I not felt the need to recover from nowaygirl.com for a while.

This is one of those - in fact the epitome of those - that have you balancing your desire to be thoughtful and socially sensitive with your more base urge to roll around on the floor laughing your $#*! off. I imagine a decent psychotherapist could plumb the depths of black and white people's responses to this one for long enough to get a PhD out of it. In fact I can kick that one off now, with a comment I found on another site, by a black person, who observed that it's holding up a mirror to show how blacks are presenting themselves to our society and the reflected image isn't one they should be aspiring to. Still darn funny though, even though the laughs may be guilty ones.