Comments on: Black Women, “Think Like A What?”

By: Mel

Mel — Tue, 01 May 2012 23:50:26 +0000

Didn’t know this is a Christian website.

You’d certainly think that by the comments. I’m Black, so let’s get that out of the way first—

Nevermind. I thought I would get up on my soapbox but it’s probably a bit premature for many folks on this thread. All I’ve got to say is enlighten yourselves, Black people! Read something other than the Bible. EDUCATE YOURSELVES!!! Live HAPPY and FULFILLED lives no matter what that means to you! LIVE IT! And not by anyone’s will but your own! Our people were enslaved in Westernized society for over 400 years! Why would any descendent of slaves continue to espouse a religion that was either forced upon their ancestors or kept from them because Blackness meant inferiority back then? WHY PEOPLE, WHY?!?!?!?!?!

And about this sh***y movie…. Black people, stop looking to movies for the meaning of life. If you think other grown-a** women are going to see the Steve Harvey book-movie and throw their lives away with his bad advice, ask yourself how you were able to decipher the complex code that is the premise of “Think Like a Man”.

I think the answer you’re looking for is “I have a brain”.

So do the rest of us.

By: Alvin

Alvin — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:32:21 +0000

Let them keep thinking like men, while these young boys dressing like woman. Remember, God made man for him and woman for man. When it’s all said and done god promised that men would be scarce in the earth. They will beg for a man hand in marriage when it’s over. It’s aint that there are no good men out here, there’s just very few rich and fake ones availalable for the Gold diggers. In the end they gone have whores for husbands.

By: sankofa

sankofa — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:16:58 +0000

Anybody who follows Steve Harvey’s career would have figured out that he is a wanna be pimp and opportunist. All books and movies like this suggests is that women continue to find and make excuses for not getting their acts together to uplift the community. I saw an old high school associate and a “friend” going to the theatre to see this movie. Trust that she is not only the type of female you write about, but the type that would see this movie. The more things change the more they stay the same (smh)

By: DG

DG — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:54:31 +0000

“We tried to be the head of the house (how is that working for us?), we have tried to control the men in our lives (ummmm did that work out for you. No? Oh ok) we’ve told our children that we are both the “mother and the father” though we are ONLY ONE. So if we really think about it……attempting to “be the man or think as a man in the relationship” hasn’t proven to be successful….so how about thinking as a WOMAN should? I’m just saying I would be kind of leery of what type of man I attract while I am THINKING like a man. In my humble opinion, women don’t need to think like men. Just BE and think like the WOMAN you ARE. The LAST thing a man wants is a woman thinking like him. Anytime you are confused about what you are or how you should think….just look down. tadaaa! There’s your answer!”

BAM, enough said with that quote right there. This is coming from a man that thinks like a man and acts like one too.

By: Nojma

Nojma — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:14:52 +0000

@Emma, you are entitled to your opinion, just as I am entitled to mine. What has been your experience with women that have read the book? I have experienced discussions with women that literally referred to his book as their “bible” though some of the advice that he gives contradicts what the REAL Bible instructs both male and female to do. Some of the most destructive seeds are planted under the guise of “entertainment”. In the theater when a preview of Tyler Perry’s new movie came out, the crowd went crazy. A man in a dress is considered entertainment, though that too contradicts what is instructed in the Bible. Again one of the most effective ways to dull a person or a people to sleep is to give them a bedtime story in the form of “entertainment”.

By: Emma Turner

Emma Turner — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:47:27 +0000

First of all, I am a black woman and I saw the movie this weekend and enjoyed it immensely. It is entertainment, people!! Not a life guide or a ‘how-to’ manual on life and relationships. I think the author is taking the movie and the book (which I have not read) too literally. The main point for me was that the movie’s premise was to not to ‘think like a man’ per se, but to simply ‘think’! Think before you act…analyze and clearly look at your relationship and your interactions with your partner with an open heart. None of the women actually did anything that could be interpreted as “thinking like a man”.

All of the characters and especially the women, discovered that to address the issues in their relationships or single lives, they needed to first acknowledge the issue, be truthful to themselves in what they desired and raise their expectations of themselves and their partners. Again, they had to think! Think about what they had, what they wanted, what they did not want and how to best communicate that to get the desired outcome.

I loved the movie and did not go or leave from it with any misguided notions on how to think like a man. I think (no pun intended) that if anything, I left out of there feeling more empowered and encouraged by the very fact that I am indeed a woman. Lighten up and enjoy a movie that entertains and does not degrade or insult us as a people. Kudos to the movie and kudos to the cast. Thoroughly enjoyable! I plan on seeing it again.

By: Nojma

Nojma — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:06:09 +0000

LOLOL your 9.50 won’t put a dent in Steve’s pockets lol. Glad you liked the article, and I appreciate your Brother! Peace to you as well!

By: donnell underwood

donnell underwood — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:54:04 +0000

Nojma, of course Steve Harvey will be mad because now I do not have to go to see the movie to join the discourse!!! As usual, what you said was powerful-I mean really, a woman thinking like a man??? It is a sometimes long road but the truth is,being and thinking like a better you is the answer. Peace my sister. Donnell