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Comment on: Re: Is pop music culture disrespectful to women?

Bigthink — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:42:37 +0100

It is not necessarily pop culture that is disrespectful to women, but gangster rap. First, there are many forms of hip-hop that actually encompass fruitful topics like politics, love, etc. But these artists are not widely known, and that is a problem. People perceive hip-hop as one particular genre oblivious to the sub-cultures within hip-hop. Just like there are many variations to the latin genre: flamenco, classical, etc. There are other forms of hip-hop besides the obvious gangster rap, for example conscience hip-hop. A route very few people take, unfortunately. The artists are out there; it's just that people are too attracted to that sub-culture within hip-hop of negativity and violence. I don't condone degrading women in any manner, but them the opportunity to do it is a lucrative one. I wish it would change to.

Comment on: Re: Is pop music culture disrespectful to women?

Bigthink — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:46:24 +0100

Heres the thing, we know for a fact that women everywhere, in their young age get influenced by these videoclips. Not because they are sending a message, or trying to be influential but because the nature of pop music is massive reach, and a whole lot of consumption. Are there groups of women that do not feel disrespected when being treated like the women in the video? Maybe there are. However, as a society, there comes a point where we need to send a message to the teens out there about how to treat women. I doubt what they learn in the videoclips is what we want them to be modelling their behavior on.

Comment on: Re: Is pop music culture disrespectful to women?

Bigthink — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:58:05 +0100

Very unimpressive.

In response to the question "Is pop music culture disrespectful to women?" he claims that there is no disrespect to women because there are in fact women who want to be portrayed that way. Huh?

Then he starts to preach about wanting to be respectful because he has a momma, so he's going to not drop champagne on a woman's head but instead show her to be a fiiiiine lady. Yeesh.