Why you gotta hate?

There has been a recent rash of responses from the gay and lesbian community regarding Tyler, The Creator and his homophobic and misogynistic lyrics.  GLAAD and Tegan and Sara tantamount amongst these.  First of all, Tyler responded quite succinctly to Tegan and Sara on Twitter the other day so we can lay that issue to rest.  GLAAD has also stepped forward and said that these lyrics are inexcusable.  The problem with GLAAD (other than the fact that it is a wholly redundant organization) is that it fails to understand something that the members of OFWGKTA seem to be intimately aware of: words, inherently, are meaningless.  When Eminem and ICP and other shock-rap tacticians have engaged in this type of behavior in the past they were relying on the lowest common denominator of humanity.  Namely, 13 year old boys who got a kick out of listening to something their parents hated and middle American rednecks whose slight remaining intelligence was soon to be weeded out by inbreeding.  Fortunately for Eminem he grew up as his fans did.  Neither ICP nor their fans have been so lucky.  In any case, these were the types of groups against which complaints of this nature mattered because the fans were too young/stupid enough to believe that what was a tactic, wasn't.  Tyler's fans (for the most part save for the fucking moron throwing bottles in Detroit), I believe, understand that these are not tactics but, rather, a simple case of a young black man fully understanding the weight of his words.  Which is to say, he understands that his words mean nothing.  Tegan and Sara (and GLAAD) are still living in a world where people believed that their words carried weight, consequently opinions were valued or at least commented upon (trust me, I am well aware of the irony of writing these things in a blog).  Tyler seems to understand that in the modern landscape everybody is talking all of the time and words, like anything else in overabundance, have seem their value reduced to nothing.  Economically, a system of infinite supply and little to no demand renders the commodity valueless.

This is all to say that if you have a problem with Tyler's lyrics being misogynistic or homophobic, please be quiet.  Everyone is listening but no one fucking cares.