Hip Hop Paper Hip Hop/Rap has a negative influence on the African American culture because it degrades women, promotes violence, and overly uses the "N" word. In most hip hop and rap lyrics and videos women are degraded to less than nothing. For example, in the lyrics to Dr Dre's single "Bitches ain't Shit" he says “Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks. Lick on these nuts and suck the dick. Get the fuck out after you're done".
Today’s rap music downgrades women in many different ways which has an impact on the African American community. One rapper even made a song called “Toot it and Boot it” basically saying that he can just have sex with a female and kick her to the curve like nothing is wrong. Rappers simply degrade women; they call us out our names by calling us a female dog and other discriminating words. The rap about how women are easy to sleep with and that woman will do anything when money is the subject. Rappers just think women can simply be bought and that’s how men in the African American women in their community like “If I give her some money and buy her anything she wants she’ll do everything I ask her to”.
Essentially, the entertainments that we see and hear from men deal with violence, and women entertain the viewers sexually. Evidently, the ads presented in “Two ways a woman can get hurt,” Kilbourne expounds on how women’s sexual appeal hurts themselves. In “From Fly-Girls to Bitches and Hos,” Morgan relates gender behavior to hip hop lyrics. Furthermore, she questions
“The construction of gender stereotyping of both males and females in the media is based on outdated and unfounded beliefs and therefore has had and continues to have a detrimental impact on society.” (Yes!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUyfD1F7k1I Women are subjected to many stereotypes in today’s society. Movies and television shows suggest that all women are airheads, whose sole purpose in life is to please men and rear children. Magazines and other advertisements push photographs of very slender, over groomed and “sexy women” into our minds. Men’s magazines write articles on how to seduce a girl into sleeping with them.
This ad is completely demoralizing towards women. It portrays this woman as just a sex object to the consumer, which supports Jean Kilbourne’s ideas of dehumanizing women. This is a horrible ad to publish because normal women are going to see this ad and think that they have to behave and act like that because that’s when men want. The Tom Ford brand may have gotten attention with this tactic, but he also alienated a lot of the public who thought the ads were
It is a known cultural difference that men usually dominate the world. There are many times when women are abused that they do not file charges against their assailants. Some of the governing assumptions that strengthen the mainstream explanation of the intimate abuse that many women face are as follows: First, men batter women because they are privileged, physically, financially, and socially; it is under the assumption in this belief that we need not understand the violence behind men’s violence beyond that point of the patriarchal explanation. Second, women stay in abusive relationships because of patriarchy. Third, the criminal justice system is sexist.
Female Chauvinist Pigs are women who sexually only objectify other women and themselves. Some women gain empowerment by disciplining oneself from women who are “girly girls”, while simultaneously objectifying such women like going to strip clubs and reading Playboy. Others gain empowerment by objectifying themselves through sexual appeal. Both are an attempt to gain status whether being through the attempt of acting like a male chauvinist or through embodying what society portrays as the ideal object of male desire. As an example, Camille Paglia, in an interview with spin magazine expresses “The people who criticize me, these
Many people can bring these stereotypes down on Eve, as they think she is the cause for the way that women are in the world today. She is blamed for the reason why women act the way they do. For centuries, this has been known as “Eve’s Curse”. Women are usually viewed as inferior to men, especially in the Middle East and most parts of Asia. Women are perceived to have more flaws and faults.
There are many instruments used to perpetuate male power (particularly rich, white, male power). Among the instruments used to perpetuate male dominance is male violence against females or the “privilege” of men to oppress women (Hooks 50). Among the feminist interests of U.S. ideology is termination of this violence. Living within a male-dominated system that suppresses women; can one rationalize women using murder as a counter to assault? The story of Aileen Wuornos was of specific interest to the feminist movement.
She searches to find reasons behind the dehumanization of women by her 'brothers'. She explores the internal conflict that causes them to objectify and exploit women as they do. Morgan says, “My decision to expose myself to the sexism of Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, or the Notorious B.I.G. Is really my plea to my brothers to tell me who they are... why is disrespecting me the one of the few things that make them feel like men?...what are you going through on a daily basis that's got you acting so foul?” (603) Rebecca Jean