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| Diane Abbott, ''Jamaica Observer'', August 2, 2009.</ref> In 2009, the '']'' reported on the continuing violence including a case where police were helping a gay man ] victim by driving him to a hospital when people admonished them for helping a ''batty boy'', they removed him from the car and loaded him into the trunk instead.<ref name="HIJ"/> Similar cultural attitudes were ascribed by a doctor at St. Andrew's Hospital for the "soaring level of prostate cancer in Jamaica to men being scared of the digital rectal examinations" saying, "because it is a homophobic society, there's such a fear of the sexual implications of having the exam that men won't seek out help."<ref name="HIJ"/> | Diane Abbott, ''Jamaica Observer'', August 2, 2009.</ref> In 2009, the '']'' reported on the continuing violence including a case where police were helping a gay man ] victim by driving him to a hospital when people admonished them for helping a ''batty boy'', they removed him from the car and loaded him into the trunk instead.<ref name="HIJ"/> Similar cultural attitudes were ascribed by a doctor at St. Andrew's Hospital for the "soaring level of prostate cancer in Jamaica to men being scared of the digital rectal examinations" saying, "because it is a homophobic society, there's such a fear of the sexual implications of having the exam that men won't seek out help."<ref name="HIJ"/> | ||
| Kaiser from MKB is officially a batty boy but more commonly known as gay. | |||
| Many Jamaican musicians have used the term to disparage LGBT people. In one notorious song, "Boom Bye Bye", ] musician ] advocates violence against "batty boys", including shooting them in the head and setting them on fire: | |||
| :Boom bye bye, in a batty bwoy head, | |||
| :Rude boy nah promote no nasty man, dem hafi dead.<ref></ref> | |||
| The term was brought to the ] by post-] Jamaican immigrants. The term was further popularised in the United Kingdom by the rise of British ] ], and his portrayal of the character ].<ref></ref> There is even a small following of the term in ]. | |||
| A synonymous Jamaican pejorative is '''chi chi boy''' or '''chi chi man'''. Dancehall artistes ], in a song by that name, threatened to "bun fire" on gays and those individuals in the company of gays.<ref name="jojj"/> | |||
| Gay men have begun referring to themselves as "batty boys" or "battymen", in part to ] the term and remove the ] associated with it.<ref name="jojj"/> This is similar to the way that '']'' is reclaimed in the U.S. In some cultures batty can be used as a simple description of ] much like '']'', or it can be used to be degrading. | |||
| Rapper ]'s song "Batty Boyz" from his 2009 album '']'' pokes fun at the ]. He pokes fun at it with lines such as: "Batman head bobbin slobbin Robins knob". | |||
| The hit UK show '']'' stars a Jamaican mother who uses the term Batty Boy to refer to her son who exhibits effeminate behavior.{{Citation needed|date=November 2009}} | |||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
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Batty boy (also spelled bhatti boy, batty bwoy), bati man and bati chick are pejorative sexual slurs used to describe gay, bisexual and effeminate men, or those presumed to be gay and bisexual. The term is a Jamaican Patois abbreviation of the word bottom into batty; "batty boy" is a cognate of the American English "butt boy". Usage is commonplace in some Caribbean cultures where homosexuality is condemned, partially as a result of mainly conservative Christian and Rastafarian beliefs. Sex between men is punishable with up to ten years jail in Jamaica. The country is seen as one of the most violent towards gay men in particular and in 2006 Time noted it likely was the worst place in the Americas for LGBT people and one of the most homophobic places in the world. In 2009, the New York Times reported on the continuing violence including a case where police were helping a gay man bashing victim by driving him to a hospital when people admonished them for helping a batty boy, they removed him from the car and loaded him into the trunk instead. Similar cultural attitudes were ascribed by a doctor at St. Andrew's Hospital for the "soaring level of prostate cancer in Jamaica to men being scared of the digital rectal examinations" saying, "because it is a homophobic society, there's such a fear of the sexual implications of having the exam that men won't seek out help."
Kaiser from MKB is officially a batty boy but more commonly known as gay.
References
- Crimes against gays are mounting in Jamaica and across the Caribbean By Tim Padgett. Wednesday, April 12, 2006.
- TIME: The Most Homophobic Place on Earth? By Tim Padgett. Wednesday, April 12, 2006.
- A glimpse inside the lifestyle of a male prostitute Janice Johnson, Jamaica Observer, December 25, 2006.
- ^ Homophobia in Jamaica Diane Abbott, Jamaica Observer, August 2, 2009.
