I will admit to being a fan of hip-hop music. I love dancing to the popular songs when I am out with my friends, but I do not appreciate the way women are represented. Many hip-hop artists, not all, exploit and encourage unfair treatment of women. Audiences and artists alike accept the unfair treatment of women among the hip-hop industry.
In many hip-hop videos, women are seen as objects of pornography. Women are paid to dance provocatively, as if they were having sex. Within these videos, the male rappers are the focal points and women are supposed to dance around them vying for the males’ attention. The video girls are dressed in minimal clothing, many wearing thongs and bikini tops. Women in these videos are portrayed as being used for their bodies. They are seen shaking their butts, doing splits, dancing on strip poles – anything to please the men. They are recorded dancing on cars, sexually washing them off. In the hip-hop industry the dancers aren’t seen as women, they are seen as objects of sexual desire and are associated with other objects, like the car. Why do people watch and accept this?
I think that until the present media, sex was seen as a taboo and was supposed to be between you and your spouse. But as soon as media moguls like Marylin Monroe and Madonna showed that it was okay to be sexual, I think people ran with the idea of public sex and sexual desire. Now, the premise of sex in the media is that sex sells. But this type sexual industry, women being seen as objects not as humans, in the hip-hop industry, is disgusting. It makes me sick to know that people are endorsing artists who use twenty women in their videos and make them look like they cannot live without obsessing over the artist or need to take off all of their clothes in order to please the artist.
Check out this video... it is graphic but crazy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRFt_wFC0N4
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