Gender Roles

What Has Become the New Normal In society today, women are being degraded, mistreated, and abused has sadly come to a point to where it has been tolerated and a part of everyday life. If we do not see it every day, we are constantly surrounded by it and goes unnoticed by us because it has simply become “normal”. For those of us who have listen to hip hop and rap stations on the radio, understand first hand that almost every song that comes on include the words bitch and ho, referring to us women. We sometimes don’t realize that we constantly supporting the music that “repeatedly reduces me [women] to ass and encourages pimping on the regular” (Morgan 455). Just like we are some kind of property to the male sex, we are their “bitches” like we have become some belonging that can be easily thrown away and forgotten just as easily as it was for us to become seduced. Now I’m not proclaiming that all men and women are this way, I’m simply putting a spotlight on an issue that I feel has taken a turn for the worst and has come to be part of the society that we continue to live in every day. In addition to viewing women as some kind of object by continuing to disrespect them through the songs that we all have listened to at one time or another, there is still the very serious issue of how women’s roles are viewed by men today. When we think of women’s roles, we traditionally think of a woman cleaning, cooking, and tending to the husband and children’s every need and there may be more or less depending on many things such as religion, race, and culture, but ultimately, women are seen doing those things. However, many things have changed since women were viewed in this way. Although women’s rights and power have greatly increased, women in our so called modern world, are still living in chains. “The role of women in our society has changed significantly in the past three decades. Women and girls have many more opportunities and face different challenges. The playing

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