Looking At AOL Black Voices' List of "10 Women We Love to Hate" - Page 3

5. Beyonce. The “unbeweaveble” singer and dancer puts the Energizer bunny to shame with nonstop concerts and promotion of everything from her clothing line – a joint venture with her mother Tina – to DirectTV. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if she started her own line of feminine hygiene products called “Irreplaceable” – the title of her recently Grammy-nominated song.

4. Karrine Steffans. I am surprised to find her name on the list because I can’t think of anyone who is remotely ambivalent towards this former video vixen and bestselling author who also goes by the name Superhead. (Please don’t ask me to define the word. And no, it doesn’t refer to her intellectual ability.) In her first book, a memoir called Confessions of a Video Vixen, she chronicles her life as a featured “performer” in rap/hip hop music videos and her “relationships” with famous artists. Oddly enough, despite or perhaps because of, its graphic nature, Steffans insists that her life, as she once lived it, is a cautionary tale. She has even appeared on Oprah where she talked to young women engaged in risky sexual behavior. Seeing her on set made me think that the mighty O had bumped her head or that her producers sold her another bill of goods a la James Frey, and A Million Little Lies... I mean “Pieces”. The one-time arm candy of comedian Bill Maher had another book this year on the New York Times bestsellers list, The Vixen Diaries, although briefly, unlike her first book, which remained on the list for several weeks. Sex sells but perhaps not like it used to.

3. New York. It’s not the city but the over-the-top star of the reality series I Love New York on VH-1. New York began her “career” as one of the “beauties” vying for the affections of the wizened former rapper Flavor Flav of Public Enemy in the VH-1 reality series, Flavor of Love. Well, New York won Flav’s heart. She was such a hit that VH-1 gave New York her own show where male suitors vie for her affection. Now in its second season, I Love New York delivers the crazy like Domino’s delivers pizza. I have neither the time nor the patience for her antics and clearly don’t see the appeal. I guess it a matter of taste, or the lack thereof.

Article Author: Carla Thompson

Carla Thompson is a New York-based freelance writer and author of the memoir, Bearing Witness: Not So Crazy in Alabama (August Press). The self-described granola-eating black Republican also maintains the blog, The Ride: Life Lessons for Those Who …

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