Woman Thou Art ... Noosed?

This has been a pretty rough couple of weeks for Black women. First Arab newspapers ran a cartoon depicting Condoleeza Rice as pregnant with a monkey. Yes, a monkey. Then MTV2 decides they want to premier a cartoon-based series that "pokes fun" at the lavish lives of celebrities. Some of the satire includes a cartoon Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown living in a dumpster and mistaking dogs for their kids. But the cartoon that has put the network in the news (with the network's Black and female president taking most of the heat) is the episode during which a "cartoon" Snoop Dogg enters an establishment with his two ... well, bitches. Two women being led on dog collars and walking on all fours. The kicker is when one of the dog-women defecates on the floor of the establishment. I know ... gasp followed by head shaking following by a collective sigh. But ladies and gentlemen, the real tragedy of these depictions is that on the premier episode of VH1's Flava of Love 2, a live and in living color Black woman defecates on herself on national television. That sort of blew our whole "why would you depict such an atrocious act even in a cartoon" argument right out the water. Do we even have an argument anymore when little white boys are discussing the technical merits of Nelly's "Tip Drill" video and when we're hard-pressed to find a song on urban radio (even the love songs) that does not describe in full detail the ins and outs of the female anatomy and how and when we like to shake, pop, dip, etc. said anatomy?
So here's the questions de jour: 1) Why do people think subjects are less offensive if they're portrayed in a cartoon? 2)Are Black women (like Flava's doo-doo princess)reacting to the negative images of Black women in the media OR is the media simply reacting to and reporting the negative actions of Black women? Makes you say, hmmmm.