Posted on Apr 06, 2011 @ 12:39PM
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One thing's for sure --
Ashley Judd wont be turning up in a
Snoop Dogg or
P Diddy video anytime soon.
The
Kiss The Girls actress
ripped into the two performers, as well as the world of hip hop "with
it's rape culture and insanely abusive lyrics and depictions of girls
and women as 'ho's'" in her shocking new memoir
All That Is Bitter And Sweet - and
RadarOnline.com can bring you all her no holds barred comments.
Talking about her work in AIDS awareness, Judd makes her opinion
crystal clear when it comes to the activist organization YouthAIDS
choice in spokespeople for a past campaign, singling out Snoop and
Diddy.
"YouthAIDS created hip public service announcements for TV and radio
using popular local and international celebrities and athletes and was
participating in the MTV World AIDS Day 'Staying Alive' concerts," she
writes.
"Along with other performers, YouthAIDS was supported by rap and
hip-hop artists like Snoop Dogg and P. Diddy to spread the
message...um, who? Those names were a red flag.
"As far as I'm concerned, most rap and hip-hop music -- with it's rape
culture and insanely abusive lyrics and depictions of girls and women
as 'ho's' -- is the contemporary soundtrack of misogyny.
"I believe that the social construction of gender -- the cultural
beliefs and practices that divide the sexes and institutionalize and
normalize the unequal treatment of girls and women, privilege the
interests of boys and men, and, most nefariously, incessantly sexualize
girls and women -- is the root cause of poverty and suffering around
the world."
As
RadarOnline.com previously reported Judd is laying it all bare in her new book - detailing her childhood years filled with lies, pain and sexual abuse.
"My mother, while she was transforming herself into the country legend
Naomi Judd, created an origin myth for the Judds that did not match my reality," Ashley shares.
"She and my sister [
Wynonna]
have been quoted as saying that our family put the 'fun' in
dysfunction. I wondered: 'Who, exactly, was having all the fun? What
was I missing?'"
EXCLUSIVE: Ashley Judd Slams P Diddy & Snoop Dogg In New Memoir | Radar Online