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When Morehouse College redefined their dress code, it was obvious to most that there was something going on over there. Not to say that it’s a good thing or a bad thing, but the dress code did nothing to redefine the image of what a “Morehouse Man” is these days.
READ: Morehouse College Says “No” to Men in Pumps…
Yesterday, Vibe posted an article about the new Morehouse man. Forcing all to take a look inside what was really behind all the hoopla surrounding that dress code issue.
Within the openly Gay community at Atlanta’s Morehouse College, there’s a subgroup: Gender Benders who rock makeup, Marc Jacobs, tote bags, sky-high heels and Beyonce’-style hair weaves.
Can a man of Morehouse be Gay? Absolutely. But can he be a woman?
Meet the Plastics…the group believed to have prompted the controversial dress code announced by leaders of the African-American college last fall.
Diamond Martin Poulin, 20, teetering in strappy sandals with three-inch heels, steps into an eclectic clothing boutique in Little Five Points, a quaint cluster of shops and restaurants two and a half miles outside of downtown Atlanta. “Ooooh,” squeals Diamond. “What about this?” Holding up a white floor-skimming skirt with an eyelet hem, he swoons. The proprietor of the store looks up at Diamond, does a double take, and immediately picks up the cordless phone at the register. “There’s a man in here with heels on!” she whispers loudly into the phone. Diamond raises his eyebrows and continues browsing the racks. He shrugs when asked if the comment bothers him. “Isn’t it true?” he says, chuckling. “There is a man in here with heels on.”
“I’ve always been into clothes, shoes, hair and everything,” says Diamond, who was born and raised in Providence, R.I. He says there’s a good chance he’ll transition into a woman at some point. “My mother says I always played dress-up in her clothes, my grandmother’s clothes. I’d even get my brother to do it sometimes. That’s just always been me—pushing the envelope of what I’m supposed to be as a man.”
So does Diamond really consider herself a man? At the question, he groans. “Yes, I refer to myself as a man, you know, to relieve any confusion. Sometimes people don’t understand the whole androgyny thing. There’s always the question: Well, what are you? Yes, I’m a man. I like women’s clothes. And yeah, I’m gay. But I don’t want that to define me. How come people can’t just see me as a person?”
Vibe magazine delivers a provocative article about the Plastics, a group of men who dress as women at the prestigious Morehouse College in Georgia.
Are these the new faces of the historically Black, historically male Morehouse college?
READ FULL ARTICLE at VIBE
helllllll naw.smh wow thats awful
Damn! Damn! Damn!
Look at this nutkery right here. Dayum shame what’s happening to perfectly good black men around the nation. Dayum shame.
Who cares. Dat aint for me…but if he like it; let him live. We have so many other important issues to remedy within our community and society. I was always taught that a man is not what he does but how he does it. And ‘ol boy seems to have alot more character than alot of kats I know that wear jerseys and Timbs.
"You do you…Imma do me"
The devil will always be a liar.
wow.
This is very sad.
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@attorneymom
i guess the lieing devil would be your black azz president who is destroying our black community in every imaginable way and so called church folks keep drinking the obama deadly koolaid, and the DNC is paying black leaders to serve it
5 g a y guys out of 3000 students? That’s .001% of the student body. And you have the nerve to ask if that minscule percentage of guys are the new face for the rest of the 99.999% of black male students? Get the fuck outta here. I guess any retarrd can write for this article.
Yes Morehouse is Gay! Why don’t you go there sometimes and hang out?
Dayum…aint no straight men in ATL? Y’all got it bad. And since when do girls have nutsacks, dicks and prostrates with hair faces? You gotta wonder why gay men want to be female so damn bad. Counseling and psychological reprogramming is in order.
ahahahaha. damn damn damn is right. black men are a dying breed. black women gonna have to get that asian & white boy hook up stat!! stay away from black and latino men unless you want HIV and HPV and no B A B Y after that nucca sperm get you sterilized.
LMAO!!!
LMAO!!!
LMAO!!!
OH, hell nawl!!! This shiz is funny!!!
And oh by the way Diane, is it? Gurl, Obama didn’t have anything to do with the new plastics over there at THE HOUSE or in our community the House of the Plastics… LOL!!!
Diane gurl, take your azz somewhere and sit it down…
and where the hell is Charles Hater when I need him?
Dana T.
Don’t make hit u wit my pocketbook!!!
LMAO!!!
I can’t take it!!!
Dana T.
@Diane… Where in the H-E-L-L did ALL of THAT come from? Blank stare… GEESH! AND, I REBUKE YOU, NOW, off of MY PRESIDENT OBAMA, in the name of JESUS the CHRIST!
Gross..Lord Help them…please snap them out of it and draw them close to You…Lord, knock on their hearts and Devil get out the way so they can receive and accept the gift of Forgiveness and Salvation through Jesus.
This is very sad indeed, and I am not going to pick at them because they are obviously going through some things…Thank God I got a good black man who loves God and loves me and is not confused about what God made him to be. I hear it is very hard to find a good one nowadays, but since I am off the market I don’t really know..but from seeing this article and many like it, I can believe that it a needle in a haystack to try and find a man who wants to be a man and wants to be with a woman. I agree with the previous statement, please get checked out and before you get in bed (you should be married) but make sure the man has a clean bill of health as well. You never know these days…It’s getting bad out here…But when the Lord returns, every knee will bow and tongue confess that He is King..imagine all these gays and cross-dressers who will be on their knees infront of the Almighty God and He will be calling them Paul and they are dressed like Pauline…what a shame…pray yall.
it’s a sad world…especially for black women. there has to be some sort of curse on us. we have been victimized in so many ways. it’s bad enuff that majority of our men are imprisoned…and it doesn’t help now that the other half want to date men. as for the micellaneous…that’s those who date outside the race or choose to settle with women who could care less about them.
Most of these comments are shameful. But then again, the entire discourse around this piece (if you can call it that) has been skewed from the off. Morehouse pre-emptively releases a letter about the article before it’s even printed. Then, when it’s printed, most can’t take their eyes off the imagery long enough to read the article for what it is.
Is the piece sensationalist? Of course. The title is misleading, and there’s enough hooks and cues in quotes just to get you to visit the site or buy the magazine. But the piece does tell a seldom-told story and gives perspective into one of the most secretive HBCUs in the country. (And why shouldn’t they be? It’s a private school after all.)
I don’t even now how to address " The Mean Girls of Morehouse" I dont agree niether do I accept what they are doing. but I will stop hear.
"If you ant got something nice to say, dont speak at all."
GO ATL
everyone should all b treated equal expect 4 races white men nd women dey should burm n hell!!!!!!
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Black men willingly emasculating themselves, allowing themselves to be reduced to less than men by their white counterparts (that includes Vibe), AS HISTORY HAS SHOW US SINCE SLAVERY.
This is sad, pathetic, and these men have completely lost any part of them that connected them to their African heritage. Shameful and embarrassing.
Smook Maxey
Smook Maxey
Uh Oh… I smell FUCKERY!
Uh Oh… I smell FUCKERY!
Yo Carlton. Ha! You gotta laugh. Never seen these types of foolz. Oh well. Homecoming´s Oct 26. CAU´s is the same weekend too. 1st time in over a decade. Stay tuned for some dope azz joint alumni parties. Working weekend details out now. Albany state alumni as well, since we play them. SpelHouse HomeComing 2013! Once again it´s on! 2 months homie.
Yo Carlton. Ha! You gotta laugh. Never seen these types of foolz. Oh well. Homecoming’s Oct 26. CAU’s is the same weekend too. 1st time in over a decade. Stay tuned for some dope azz joint alumni parties. Working weekend details out now. Albany state alumni as well, since we play them. SpelHouse HomeComing 2013! Once again it’s on! 2 months homie.
Huh!?
Huh!?
SMH ***sigh** :/ Keith White
SMH ***sigh** :/ Keith White
Uh, I have nothing…
Uh, I have nothing…
This ish is ri-d@mn-diculous!!!!!
This ish is ri-d@mn-diculous!!!!!
Old news. Hell the campus is only blocks away from MLK Jr drive where for decades Dragsters by the 100′s would line the street from Paschals eatery to the old Booker T Washington High School. Some of them wannabes, Some of the dangerous gun toting, knife welding, acid throwing DQ’s selling their look and whatever else on "Hunter Street" in from of the infamous "Marquette Club." But back in the day the dudes at the college wasn’t gonna have all that up in "The House" regardless what was going on outside on Fair Street, Ashby and MLK Jr Drive. Now those young cats are to metrosexual to even care. Real Brothas wouldn’t have all that clown shit up on their campus and Vibe is gonna make Morehouse the laughing stock of the Black College circuit….I can hear the taunting at the games….WHOREHOUSE! The Alumni and the colleges around Atlanta University should be embarrassed for Morehouse as well.
Thats some BullSh*t.
Thats some BullSh*t.
GTFOH!!!
GTFOH!!!
This is not what my school Morehouse College is about. Why would something like this get publicity. Why can´t we publicity of the academic success, the new men of the house that have begun their journey as freshman, they rising academic stars that just left our campus from the summer math and science programs…Why? Morehouse Admin, this is my charge to you, as you have raised us Morehouse Men to push through the trials and difficulties to become great men, I need you to push through and regain the respect due to our beloved institution…SELAH
This is not what my school Morehouse College is about. Why would something like this get publicity. Why can’t we publicity of the academic success, the new men of the house that have begun their journey as freshman, they rising academic stars that just left our campus from the summer math and science programs…Why? Morehouse Admin, this is my charge to you, as you have raised us Morehouse Men to push through the trials and difficulties to become great men, I need you to push through and regain the respect due to our beloved institution…SELAH
Ha! My last post was deleted. Anyway. SpelHouse HomeComing in 2 months. Come get faded and kick it!!!
Ha! My last post was deleted. Anyway. SpelHouse HomeComing in 2 months. Come get faded and kick it!!!
Sexually comes from birth. Actin/ dressin like a fool and being a jackass on campus is a choice.
Sexually comes from birth. Actin/ dressin like a fool and being a jackass on campus is a choice.
Ckesa Templeton….look at this foolishness
Ckesa Templeton….look at this foolishness