For many, especially black people who see in her a mockery of our own grandmothers, Tyler Perry's Madea is little more than a mammy — an insult to the matriarchal community figure that Perry claims to celebrate. And unforgivably, when compared to Flip Wilson's Geraldine or even Martin Lawrence's Big Momma, his black-men-in-drag-for-comic-effect peers, Perry's Madea — that crass, violent, ignorant, bizarrely asexual depiction of a black Southern woman that he insists is based on women he has actually known —... More >>>