For starters, music videos seem to be one of the hottest topics when talking about how women are being degraded. From a parental stand point one could understand a mothers concern about her young daughter watching these music videos where a woman is degraded and is being portrayed as nothing more than an object where she is subjected to be “used.” In these videos those women are dressed provocatively and are hanging all over men and their demeanor is everything short of self-respect. In today’s society young girls from the ages of 13-18 are targeted more than anyone else. It could be believed…
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The girls were asked how they felt about the documentary, and, not surprisingly, feelings of anger and frustration were common reactions. Through worksheets and discussion, they were then presented with concepts such as the male gaze, the deconstruction of the female body into separate parts, racism in the media, and becoming an active media citizen. Having studied social sciences for so long, I can’t remember what life was like without those ideas, but it’s important to keep in mind how many young people might be new to this type of criticism, even though they are exposed to the images of pop culture every day. In another activity, the girls were asked to create portraits of the way they see themselves, and surround them with positive words that they feel would describe them. With youth culture becoming more sexualized, more demanding of one’s appearance, and more exposed to or intertwined with popular culture aimed at the older crowd, it is more important than ever to encourage youth to be critical media consumers, and to find alternative ways for them to see…
“I Enjoy Being a Girl” (music videos and women’s capitalist role as primary consumers and sexualized objects)-…
I will be discussing the media’s portrayal of sexuality in various ways which are as follows; I the positive and negative effects that the media involvement has played in adolescent’s lives as well as how all this has affected my own personal life also.…
The concept of a music video has changes many times over the last few decades. They all still have the basic concept to get as many likes as you possibly can. They also try to get the most attention so that they can become more famous and be seen by many. This increases the target audience and intern more people will see it and download the music. Recently within the last decade or two the best way to do this has been to appeal with a scandalous and sexually manner. Humans are naturally curious and enjoy the idea or a scandalous video that tells the story in a song with out it being like porn. “Exposure to lots of sexually degrading music gives them a specific message about sex, said lead author Steven Martino, a researcher for the corporation in Pittsburg. Boys learn they should be relentless in pursuit of women and girls and learn to view them as sex objects”. (“Raunchy music influences teens sexual habits”, Theage.com). Many pop, rock, and rap artist have started to introduce real strippers in their videos so that many people will talk about it and view it. Along with strippers and dancer is an appeal with cash. It is the dream of many American to become rich and have lots of money so showing lots of money in a music video makes it more desirable to watch. This is a good method that recording studios and directors have taken because it reaches millions of teens. The teens see what…
American culture has learned to become sexist and misogyny with the influence of the sexual exploitation of women in the music, media, advertising and entertainment industries. For instance, today music videos are the latest expression of sexuality and gender stereotypes; however these music videos are often condemned for its exploitation of women. In the documentary Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Power & Sex, Director Sut Jhally analyzes how music videos both inform and are informed by our culture’s dominant attitudes regarding femininity, masculinity, sexuality and race. Sut Jhally begins to illustrate a unique and powerful understanding to the continuing influence of music videos and its storytelling, in terms of its cultural behaviors and attitudes. With the help of Sut Jhally in addition to analyzing the interrelated social problems we are able to investigate the social constructs of music videos and examine how they are drawn and shaped within our culture.…
The traditional perspective is helpful in analyzing the YouTube video, Wanna Have Sex? (Consent 101), by Laci Green. Explanation and evaluation are key concepts when approaching artifacts using the traditional perspective. The five components within this method are: recreating the context, identifying the audience, describing the source, analyzing the message, and evaluating the discourse. These components are significant to understand different aspects of the message as well as the level of rhetoric of the YouTube video. Additionally these concepts help break down the video Green (2014) is communicating to unpack the main idea within her message to the audience.…
Executive Summary Journalists, child advocacy organizations, parents, and psychologists have argued that the sexualization of girls is a broad and increasing problem and is harmful to girls. The APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls was formed in response to these expressions of public concern. APA has long been involved in issues related to the impact of media content on children. In 1994,APA adopted a policy resolution on Violence in Mass Media, which updated and expanded an earlier resolution on televised violence. In 2004, the APA Task Force on Advertising and Children produced a report examining broad issues related to advertising to children.…
For my creative media project, I put together a short music video. I decided to make a music video because I felt is was significant to a problem in todays society. Today, popular culture, such as today’s hits music, has a negative impact on women and young girls. For example, in a lot of songs with a male artist, the male will degrade women. With that said, one may turn on the radio, or television, and hear a song about how the male artist is so wealthy that he can sleep around with any girl that he would like. In the music video of the same song, one may see a women, wearing little or no clothing, dancing seductively on the artist. This is very alarming to our youth of girls. Because of the lyrics and music videos, young girls will look up…
Throughout history men and women have played different roles in music. Today is no different. With the development of the music video, these different roles were magnified. From rap to country, men and women play roles. DreamWorlds 3: Sex, Desire, and Power in Music Video explores the world of music video. Women are seen as sex symbols that simply must have sex and will submit to any fantasy that a man may have. This is mostly displayed in rap music. DreamWorlds 3 also talks about the language used. Again, it is mostly displayed in rap, and the language is very vulgar. Country music is different. According to research by Julie Andsager and Kimberley Roe, country music sang by men portrays traditional gender messages, and country music sang by women portrays both traditional messages and progressive messages. They studied music from 1997, country music’s “Year of the Woman.” There are numerous examples of this, but I chose to analyze one song, I’m still a Guy. I believe this song shows how mainstream male country music reinforces traditional gender messages. Content analysis does not tell the whole story about the portrayal of females in country music, and I will explore this after.…
The impact that these clichés are having on society is greater than anyone can imagine. Over the passed 10 years, sexuality has been an increasing factor for the way that things are being done with the media. Whether it is the latest celebrity pornography scandal, a man exerting his dominance over his wife/girlfriend by beating her or pushing a product on men via half naked women, the overall message is the same.…
This article, written by Shanara R. Reid, discusses the over-sexualization of women in rap/hip hop songs and music videos, and the possible social causes of this. It has become apparent nowadays that women are heavily degraded in all kinds of media in order to appeal to the male viewing audience. Scantily clad women partaking in provocative dance routines and actions has become a norm of music videos. Machismo ideals that stress the extreme superiority of men over women and encourage the representation of women almost as an item prevail among lyrics. African-American women are especially susceptible to this kind of treatment, and many, including the author of this journal article, believe that more should be done by these women to protect the good name of their own class of people.…
This film did a great job describing an issue that media is portraying to women and men. Women are taught to have this perfect body and view themselves as a sexual object and men are taught to be in power and control women. The film stated that teenagers spend a lot of time watching movies, watching T.V, hearing music, reading magazines, constantly on social media and this equals to about 10 hours a day learning information about how a women or men need to be in order to be accepted by society. People learn a lot from social media and when social media is constantly marketing women appearance or men status, it causes people to feel frustrated about themselves.…
Gunter, Barrie. Media Sex - What Are The Issues?. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc., 2002. 207. Print.…