To have an image on TV of what the ideal women looks like then young women would start to think that’s the way all women are suppose to look like when they are older. Young children in the world watching the videos done in the hip-hop and rap world leads to society idea of what women should look like and act like. With children seeing the images of what the media shows as what beautiful is suppose to look like. Having prejudgments in children when there growing up and when someone breaks those prejudgments then there’s a strong chance she will be made fun of in the eyes of her class mates. By having images of what the music media sees as beautiful is a strong influence on popular culture and all the people that are watching it. By having social media more readably available for people to watch and learn different ideas from social media.
With girls watching music videos from hip-hop and rap they see in the back ground of the videos the ideas of what beautiful women are suppose look like. By looking at video by Artist like Pitbull, Snoop Dogg, LMAFO, Akon you see that in back ground of these videos have very beautiful women in them that make it seem that is how women should look like. When hip-hop and rap industries hire people for the videos they can look over the women that do not match the ideas of what women look like in their eyes or the eye of there consumer. By setting up the way in which people perceive music it shows them how that audience thinks. By understanding their audience it opens up for them a way to understand what to market to a selected audience and how to market to them. For hip-hop and rap one of their biggest marketing ploys is sex and sexuality sells and if you’re not sexy then you’re not included. With a majority of women not meeting the ideas of all men then most women are thought less maybe even ignored. With having so much popular media that shows what is thought of as being what women should look like. But no matter what is placed on to music videos it still makes most women appear to be different then what women truelly look like in society. 640 word
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I was reading your post, and I am agreed that most “hip-hop and rap” culture make use of beautiful, voluptuous, and big boobs women to represent or symbolized beauty. However, it is unreasonable to say that those videos are “Having prejudgments in children.” Those hip-hop and rap videos can help construct positive influence on children. R. Resse mentioned on her article, FROM THE FRINGE: THE HIP HOP CULTURE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS. (http://www.csupomona.edu/~rrreese/HIPHOP.HTML). Hip-hop and rap has always challenge the system of oppression to promote change. If we can think out side the box, maybe the artist is trying to send a different message. Hypothetically speaking, for instance, the artist is trying to convey a different message such as, if you look like the girl in the video, you are being used as a sexual toy, therefore you need to do something about it and not look like this, because men we always going to see you as a sexual object, and they will not take you seriously. Art it self is very hard to decode; only the artist can explained what he or she is trying to convey. In hip hop and rap not only with the lyrics are daring but also with the visual images are use to caught the audience response.
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Much of the post is on point but I think Hip-Hop/Rap has such a depth of issues that can be labeled deviant. You could expand not only from the way women are portrayed and how that rolls over into how we view women in society like in the Thin Privilege Checklist but what that does to the image of women in that community. Most are treated like objects in the videos such as the money and liquor that are thrown about. It also shows the men in that community to be tough and gain wealth by any means. I can't say all Hip-Hop/Rap having negative influences, there are rappers such as Common who speak a positive message and look to influence in a more social aspect. Strain Theory is at work when it is in a negative aspect because it is showing teens that look to this as a role model aspect that this is the norm. Great topic.
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