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Hymen-gate still isn’t over.
After T.I. was rightfully slammed for publicly policing his daughter’s body and sexuality, there are still a select group of people defending his parenting style. One of them is rapper Rah Digga.
T.I.’s controversial comments first made waves in early November when he went on the podcast Ladies Like Us and said that him and his daughter Deyjah would have “yearly trips to the gynecologist to check her hymen.”
“Just check the hymen please and give me back my results expeditiously,” T.I. said, reenacting his comments to the doctor in regards to his daughter. Then, he followed up with, “I will say as of her 18th birthday, her hymen is still intact.”
His comments caused an uproar so big that Tip eventually had to answer to Jada Pinkett-Smith and her mom Adrienne Banfield-Jones on Red Table Talk. He said that he attended his daughter’s gynecologist visits alongside her mother when she was younger and he might have exaggerated parts of the story he told on Ladies Like Us. He still made clear that he likes to assert some level of control over his daughter and he says it would be different if she got pregnant versus if his son got somebody else’s daughter pregnant. His whole point of view continued to be laced with sexism.
But despite this, it seems Tip still has a group of supporters who will back him. Rah Digga took to Twitter this weekend after news broke that New York lawmakers introduced a bill that would ban virginity tests. Digga responded:
“So on top of it being criminal for parents to discipline their children they’re trying to make it criminal to monitor their sex lives? FOH!! I STAND WITH @Tip“
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Rah Digga’s support of T.I. caused a flurry of responses and she was fully prepared to clap back. When someone called Digga’s comments “sick af,” she replied, “What’s sick are the leaps and bounds society is taking to remove parental structuring and people justifying it. Same society won’t have sh** to say when that kid comes home pregnant and abortions are illegal. That’s that on that!!”
You can check out more people calling Rah Digga out and her responses below.
Rapper Rah Digga Takes On Twitter In Support Of T.I.’s Hymen Philosophy was originally published on globalgrind.com
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Well I did it and guess what? When I found out she wasn't anymore did I berate her..No. Did I kick her out the house..No. I was able to have a convo where she openly told me what it was. And i emphasized being safe. And life went on... https://t.co/1EVpsxLOl8
— Queen of the LEDs (@therealrahdigga) December 1, 2019
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I would hope as a parent you are in tuned enough with your kid to notice that and keep the lines of communication open. https://t.co/F0yai7iB4M
— Queen of the LEDs (@therealrahdigga) December 1, 2019
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So we supposed to monitor school work, online/social media activity, company they keep, all this other stuff but it's wrong to monitor their sex lives?!?!? Make. It. Make. Sense. https://t.co/mNkIzRwlHB
— Queen of the LEDs (@therealrahdigga) December 1, 2019
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Nothing wrong w doin a lil fact checking lol https://t.co/5YWt8MuAJ0
— Queen of the LEDs (@therealrahdigga) December 1, 2019
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All I know is the thought of my Dad finding out about a sex life kept my ass a virgin till I was 19. THANK YOU DAD!!! I dunno what erbody else talmbout... https://t.co/TVlHxm4qTQ
— Queen of the LEDs (@therealrahdigga) December 1, 2019
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Everybody so stuck on the logistics of a "hymen test" and ignoring a father expressing how he goes above and beyond to keep his kids in line. It may not be your way but I can NEVER be mad at any Black father for that. Sorry not sorry https://t.co/0c5pxeFOj8
— Queen of the LEDs (@therealrahdigga) December 1, 2019
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I know my Twitter bro lol. I have no problem being on an island w/ this one. I ain't letting yall shame TI out of being an overprotective Dad. Nope. https://t.co/noxl3QHTWc
— Queen of the LEDs (@therealrahdigga) December 1, 2019
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LOUDER 🗣🗣🗣 https://t.co/C4VKWT15S1
— Queen of the LEDs (@therealrahdigga) December 1, 2019
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That's what I'm saying. Cuz there would proly be zero outrage if a mother said this. And yes it is next level shit. But I did it too so I get it... https://t.co/RDiFhC7TUt
— Queen of the LEDs (@therealrahdigga) December 1, 2019
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So the day she turned 18 he went from being an overprotective Dad to pervert? Because any vaginas still in MY house that I gotta provide for are getting policed. Straight like that. https://t.co/o5ApZY3Uiv
— Queen of the LEDs (@therealrahdigga) December 1, 2019
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I didn't have the luxury of telling my Dad what was OK for him to do. Whatever he did was the law in my house and I had to deal. https://t.co/hIlRmTgQSy
— Queen of the LEDs (@therealrahdigga) December 1, 2019
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When you have a son you have 1 penis to worry about. When you have a daughter you have EVERYBODY penis to worry about. https://t.co/zRT9l654jH
— Queen of the LEDs (@therealrahdigga) December 1, 2019
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Yall can think I'm crazy. I think yall crazy. And this concludes this Sunday's edition of Walking the Dogs w/ Digga. Happy Sunday!! ✌🏾Next on the docket: 75,000 missing Black women and girls in America.
— Queen of the LEDs (@therealrahdigga) December 1, 2019
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Humans gonna human. It's no perfect way to parent. What I do know is anybody I know with a young daughter cares if she's a virgin or not. However they figure it out or what they do w that knowledge is none of my business. https://t.co/ZgPcOKVi5M
— Queen of the LEDs (@therealrahdigga) December 1, 2019
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I'll be that. *continues reading the kids in the house texts linked to the Ipad* https://t.co/bw9UnawDtH
— Queen of the LEDs (@therealrahdigga) December 1, 2019
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I truly feel sorry for the parents trying to raise children in this era. Really I do.
— Queen of the LEDs (@therealrahdigga) December 1, 2019
