Eye-roll aside about the pity party for his status as a white man aside, I used to include an article in one of my classes that argued Eminem should be criticized as a genderphobe rather than homophobe because he uses homophobic language to criticize gender behavior rather than sexual behavior and that making it about homophobia allows him to sidestep the gender problem entirely. I think it is a provocative claim and one that always makes me uncomfortable because claiming that being gay somehow makes a person less of a man is homophobic as well as a gender issue, but then again, I hate labeling something as all one category and not another. It does come back to today's rappers in general and I wonder where the hell Eminem was when all those people were protesting rap and specific black rappers in the '90s. He's highly popular, he gets flak.