Perry's Film Another One in a Series of Male Bashing

Okay so the much publicized movie "For Colored Girls" has hit the theaters. It is amazing the various perspectives reported by men and women. The men regard the movie as another one of those "male bashing pieces" designed to put the brothers down. Hmmmm! First, isn't Tyler a man? He simply took the original production of "For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enough" and brought it to the screen. The poetry and dialogue is mostly written by women. I saw the original play years ago and found it quite entertaining. I especially loved the dialogue from Loretta Devine toward the end of the movie...he's taken my stuff...I kept waiting for her to finish the poem with "you've taken my heart, give it back put it down", but oops that was a line from one of my poems. That part didn't dawn on me until 2:30AM. But to say that the movie was about male bashing is an understatement. Brothers we love you-sometimes to death. But until we as women learn to love ourselves and respect one another you'll find our love is limited where you are concerned. The movie depicted the struggles women face when they love a black man; particularly one who is broken. Not all brothers need to be fixed, but some do and to say that we bash you is your opinion. We long for a relationship where the drama is limited to mediocre things. But rape, murder, theft are huge and cannot be swept under a rug no matter who commits these atrocities toward women. I love black men, have always loved black men, am married to a beautiful black man and have raised two black sons. When we are wrong we need to accept the help from strong black women. Do you get me? We can't keep silent when you continue to hurt us.