Edd’s MANtra: Smack That

Stacks is traveling down the 21st century road to stardom – sleeping with celebrities, then blabbing all the details to anyone who listens. But boy, has her road gotten much bumpier recently.

A couple of days ago, a video emerged of Stacks being confronted by a guy for her indiscretions, culminating in the dude smacking the crap out of her and yanking her around. If Joey Greco was around I’d swear I was watching “Cheaters.” Go check out the video on youtube, I ain’t posting it here.

The incident has polarized the hip hop community – some say that a man should never, ever touch a woman, even if she is an ax murderer; others are shrugging their shoulders, saying, “eh, that’s what she gets.”

I’ll be honest, a part of me finds it really hard to argue with the latter. You can’t possibly expect to give out the phone numbers and other personal information of celebrities (even though the “celebrities” we are talking about are C and D list rappers), disparage their names and expect to get off scot-free.

Yet while I’d rather swallow live grenades than defend a gold-digging opportunist, I must. And apologies to my feminist friends, but it’s not just because a man hit a woman.

I certainly don’t condone that, of course. Although my respect for Kat Stacks ranks up there with rotting potted meat, watching her recoil after being slapped while some dude yells at her to apologize to Bow Wow and Fabolous was pretty humiliating. But would this be an issue if Kat Stacks slapped some dude? Nah, we’d probably just laugh at him for being punked out by a woman.

Not to get on my MLK podium, but I think the real issue is that society needs to stop picking and choosing when it’s OK to lay holy hands on someone. Look, I hate when the fat kid at my apartment complex walks around shirtless, throwing trash around the grounds while his ample bosom hypnotically jiggles. But I don’t slap him. Picking and choosing when it’s OK and who is allowed to dropkick a man, woman or child is just confusing.

Can’t we just say it wrong to smack up a person, unprovoked, no matter who it is? Or have I been watching too many “special episodes” of “Good Times”? Watching poor Penny yell “No, mama!” will do that to you.