2) Is it possible to be a Hip-Hop Feminist?
3) Is public images (celebrity, video vixen or Television Personality) a new form of slavery?
PMC facility has been going through a remolding phases for over eight months. PMC offers six examination rooms. Each room permits the use of a handicap patient. PMC has an X-ray room and laboratory. The office in the front of the building with a front desk for convenient to the patients check-ins. Our front entrance has been remolded for installation of large automatic doors. PMC has one bathroom that has been expanded and fitted with a new toilet and sink. PMC has used antimicrobial material throughout the clinic PMC has also updated and installed fire and smoke systems throughout the clinic.…
In her essay “Hip-Hop’s Betrayal of Black Women” Jennifer McLunes states that “Hip-hop owes its success to the ideology of woman-hating”(222). She states that hip-hop condones an attitude of objectification, sexism, and homophobia. That rarely does an artist break the mold of rampant sexism. While she is right that some lyrics may be interpreted as chauvinistic and perhaps even sexist, this is not majority of the music. McLunes argument is not valid because hip-hop’s artists, the environment it is born from, and its culture is a celebration of materialism not misogyny.…
In Hip-Hop’s Betrayal of Black Women published in Z Communications online magazine July 1, 2006, Jennifer Mclune responds to Kevin Powell’s Notes of a Hip Hop Head by vividly expressing to feminist and African American women that “Hip Hop owes its success to the ideology of woman hating. It creates, perpetuates, and reaps the rewards of objectification.”…
“I Enjoy Being a Girl” (music videos and women’s capitalist role as primary consumers and sexualized objects)-…
Amanda America Dickson or also known on her family’s plantation in Hancock County, Georgia as “Miss Mandy,” was born to Julia a housekeeper at David Dickson’s plantation. David Dickson a 40-year-old white male raped her mother at the age of 13 and later she gave birth to Amanda. Amanda was extremely lucky to have been in favor of her father and grandmother in which she was treated very well and received a lady’s upbringing despite being legally enslaved to her father. Amanda eventually married a white male that was her father’s nephew and had two children of her own. The marriage would end prematurely and she would return home with her children where her father became very fond of his grandchildren. She would tend to do this throughout her life where she would move away from her home and her father but when she would return back to her house her father would welcome her back with welcome arms and always had a special place in his heart for his daughter Amanda.…
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…
Trevino, L. K. (2011). Managing Business Ethics: Straight talk about how to do it right. (5th ed.). New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons Inc..…
Throughout history, women have been brushed aside as the inferiors of men. From the time of the Greeks to the modern day world, men have been the dominant beings. Mary Astell, an English feminist writer, says, “If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?” She questions the societal norm of women in predetermined constrictive roles. This theme of a submissive and obedient female pervades many literary works, specifically those by Ayn Rand. Rand’s portrayal of women in her novel Anthem further drives the female into a position of inferiority.…
For example, rather than degrading women, this song is elaborating on how society and the media have brainwashed women to believe that their looks and weight are more important than their knowledge. With that said, in the beginning of the video, one will see a little girl watching television. When the little girl turns on the T.V. she sees two beautiful women putting on makeup. Then, as the little girl is still watching television, we see a beautiful, skinny woman, who is obviously ditzy and has money to buy name brand clothing, getting a lot of attention from a man. At this time, the little girl sees and believes that, according to society, women will get a lot of attention from men, and have money if she is, unrealistically, skinny and beautiful. Although, the little girl then takes a stand and says “I don’t wanna be a stupid girl.” This means she does not want to be a women like the girls throughout the media. To me, this is important for women and especially young girls to see because the song, and my music video, is saying that it is okay to be different and one does not have to follow the norms of an i”deal women” like is portrayed all over television and popular…
Manhood in western societies is pre-programmed, pre-packaged and forced-fed to boys from birth to adulthood. Historically the purest example of a real man was the military standard. Military manliness dictates that a man must be strong, both physically and mentally, a man must be unfeeling and must be loyal to their fellow comrades. Military manhood favors the heterosexual man and believes that he should not gay or exhibit feminine behaviors if he is to be considered a real man. Above all else they must protect what is theirs, the bloodier the better. This idolized and ideal expression of masculinity is losing much of its relevance in the ever-changing and evolving modern world but, it will always have a platform in Hip- Hop culture.…
While things have been changing for the better, women have only been portrayed as sexual or domestic (Hartman and Schmid 64). Even backup singers are seen as sexual objects. Many backup singers have dress codes that require them to wear minimal clothing, and they are seen as eye candy (Neville). Women’s sexuality should not be a factor in how famous they become. They should be viewed by their talent, and their look should come second, exactly how men are viewed in the…
In Marilyn’s final years she had been through a lot of good and bad times, as if her life were like a roller coaster ride, where at the end she met her death. Her last completed film was The Misfits, which was directed by her husband Arthur, in which she considered to be virtually over. She was eventually flown back to L.A. and admitted to the hospital. (Owings 76) After her divorce with Arthur was declined she stated she was having thoughts of suicide and was admitted the Payne Whitney Clinic, a psychiatric ward of a hospital in New York, even though she clearly didn’t want to be there. (Owings 78) She even made attempts to try to get herself kicked out but failed. After leaving the hospital and working on her mental state, in the summer of…
People within the music video industry as well as the viewers have differing opinions as to why they do not like the social standard for music videos. In Lil Wayne’s music video for “Love Me”, the woman are shown half naked playing on swings and are in what appears to be dominatress outfits.(LilWayneVEVO). These type of imaging are the ones in which people who argue that music videos are detrimental are strictly talking about. The standard for majority of music videos are that of the Lil Wayne music video…
Sex and images of hypersexualization of women are common in many popular rap songs. In “Lollipop” by Lil Wayne the lyrics are:“But man I ain’t never seen an a** like hers/That p***y in my mouth had me at a loss for words/I told her to back it up like burp burp/And make that a** jump like shczerp shczerp. (Metreolyrics). Then turn to a female rapper’s song, such as Nicki Minaj’s “Superbass” and it’s also selling sex:“And I think I like him better with the fitted cap on/He ain’t even gotta try to put the mac on/He just gotta give me that look, when he give me that look/Then the panties comin’ off, off,…
In the rap world they are treated almost as accessories so rappers can prove that they have made it to the top. There was a famous book released by a former video vixen named Karrine Steffans, who was known as “superhead” in the Hip-Hop world, depicted the degradation of women in the world of hip hop. Sex appeal is now the currency by which women in the music business are valued, as the saying goes “sex sales”. I feel as though some of the best songs are the ones where they are speaking the truth about the conditions in which some black people live in the ghettos or projects. Rappers should not get penalized for telling their stories and that’s what rap is about, it’s a form of expression, they should be able to express themselves in their music anyway they want, that’s why we have the first amendment. I do not think its necessarily glorifying street life or prison life because it’s their truth and their reality. Is it any different from a person writing a book about the street life or prison life? Hip-Hop has changed over…