Professor Tracey's Phrase Book

This new Professor Tracey's phrase was inspired by my blogging sista, Mes Deux Cents. She has offered up a brand new and highly insightful definition for all the misogynistic and sexist men in the world, particularly those involved in rap music and hip hop culture. "Faux - Heterosexual." Please see her wonderful blog for the entire definition. It struck me and a couple of her commenter's that a definition was now needed for the women that allow themselves to be used like a modern day Hottentott Venus - a silent, hyper-sexualized, and disposable pawn featured in the numerous and endless procession of hip hop videos and songs that negatively depict African American women. I offer the following new phrase and definition in response.

Gender Turncoat - Pronunciation - [jen-der] [turn-koht] - noun

A woman who willing engages or continuously participates in actions, behaviors, and attitudes that negatively portrays women, particularly African American women as helpless, mindless, and spineless, gold-digging, over-sexed fembots or female crash test dummies.

A gender turncoat is only out for herself, completely disregarding that her words and actions have a negative impact and lasting influence on numerous others. Additionally, this kind of woman can be regularly counted upon to side against her own gender, particularly when any opportunity arises to make money or earn notorious fame.

The cause of gender turncoatism is the single-minded false belief that selling your mind, body, and soul is perfectly acceptable and understandable as long as you "got paid" or "was doing what I had to do" or "got mines" or "handled my bidness."

Maybe used in the plural form (gender turncoats) to describe the endless parade of women lining up to be exploited in music videos, reality television shows, and modern blaxploitation feature films.

A gender turncoat is often a crossover or multiple offenders in terms of working overtime to bring down the female gender. This kind of woman will accept any kind of behavior from a man, no matter how abusive, derogatory, heart-breaking, insulting, humiliating, or unhealthy that man’s particular behavior, habit or action maybe. See the blog What About Our Daughters for information on the continuing Concubine Conspiracy.

Gender Turncoats have become a unfortunate phenomenon in the black community because of our addictive habit of celebrating shallow materialistic values and "get rich quick" plans over strong moral character and "slow and steady wins the race" ideals.

It is extremely difficult and virtually impossible for a gender turncoat to see that her actions have a negative impact or effect on the lives of other women. They will often present themselves under the guise of being “a strong black woman” but the truth is they are more depend upon the resources and services of other people than any other woman in the world.