Sexism And Misogyny In Bell Hooks Ideas
In reading bell hooks' opinion about sexism and misogyny I had to admit to myself that I had no idea what she meant by sexism and misogyny. So, to accurately know what she was referring to, I looked them up on the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. For the word sexism, I found there were two meanings that support hooks' ideas: 1: prejudice or discrimination based on sex; especially: discrimination against women and 2: behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex. The word misogyny, according to Merriam-Webster, is: a hatred of women. With these definitions, I feel that both words with their meanings truly expose what bell hooks is telling us what Americans, and it seems she talks about the black
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Although I do not think she is right in all that she says in this narrative. She also says that young black males are forced to take the heat for encouraging via their music the hatred of and violence against women ' (116), and this I do not believe it completely true. She believes that the black men of America have taken themselves to a new degree in order to make themselves higher' than black women she believes that the black men should be equal to the black women and that the men should believe that as well. She talks about Calvin Broadus a.k.a. Snoop Doggy Dog (which he later changed to the current title Snoop Dogg') and his album Doggystyle. She tells us that the cover is degrading toward black women, which it is, but not just to black women, to all …show more content…
Snoop does take it a little far when referring to women what rapper doesn't? Dr. Dre, Eminem, Fifty Cent all at some point have referred to women as objects instead of WOMEN, but why single out just Snoop Dogg? Has he done something even worse than Eminem calling his own mother a whore? It's just the music, they are just notes on a page and words from mouths. I feel bell hooks needs to do more digging because Eminem speaks worse of women than Snoop Dogg does, even though Snoop has the pictures and Eminem just has
Although I do not think she is right in all that she says in this narrative. She also says that young black males are forced to take the heat for encouraging via their music the hatred of and violence against women ' (116), and this I do not believe it completely true. She believes that the black men of America have taken themselves to a new degree in order to make themselves higher' than black women she believes that the black men should be equal to the black women and that the men should believe that as well. She talks about Calvin Broadus a.k.a. Snoop Doggy Dog (which he later changed to the current title Snoop Dogg') and his album Doggystyle. She tells us that the cover is degrading toward black women, which it is, but not just to black women, to all …show more content…
Snoop does take it a little far when referring to women what rapper doesn't? Dr. Dre, Eminem, Fifty Cent all at some point have referred to women as objects instead of WOMEN, but why single out just Snoop Dogg? Has he done something even worse than Eminem calling his own mother a whore? It's just the music, they are just notes on a page and words from mouths. I feel bell hooks needs to do more digging because Eminem speaks worse of women than Snoop Dogg does, even though Snoop has the pictures and Eminem just has