Female Celebrities Of The Rap Music Industry

In today’s society, boys and men are groomed to be non-emotional, tough, and aggressive in order to be portrayed as being masculine. Boys and men often form their own idea of what it means to be masculine through the eyes of the U.S. culture. The U.S. cultures presents masculinity into our daily entertainment such as; sport games, music, and more. The U.S mainstream media presents masculine traits it in a way where males feel the pressure to meet this expectation to be considered as a masculine man.

The media has helped to construct what masculinity has become in American culture by how male characters are displayed in television shows and movies. Most male characters are presented

Rap music is really popular to us, young people, and sometimes adults, too. In my opinion, I think that rap is a way to allow all of the rappers to express themselves, their voices, their experience, and their feeling from their life. And in some other people opinion, they also describe rap music as the story or the voice of the streets. According to a music articles “The birth of Rap: A Look Back” from NPR.org website, rap music was born and began to develop in the middle of year 1970s. They are firstly formed and played by the Black communities, and then slowly spread out to the world. In rap world, at first they are only male rappers who use music to express themselves and their pain towards the world. Then, women also began to rap to be able to express their thoughts more and more. Female and male rapper are sharing the same purpose of express themselves through their song but they are different in the way they use their lyrics, the subject they choose to rap on and the feeling they express to their fans and their songs’ listeners.

     This female inferiority idea has been imbedded in the world for many years. Fairy tales are a very good example of how this notion has been present in the United States. The themes that exist in these stories normally deal

Over centuries women have been objectified, meaning they have been treated as objects valued mostly for their physical attributes, rather

Within popular culture today, objectified female bodies can be represented everywhere from advertising images to magazine covers, television, music and many more. Through these media institutions, we allow them to construct social identities in ways that allow us to understand what it means to be black, white, Asian, male or female etc. Within many popular culture mediums such as music, stereotypical representations of racially marked female bodies are often formed. Thus, these representations also have the ability to create stories about a certain culture. In music videos, it does not go unnoticed that women are portrayed as objects whose objectives are to pleasure men. In this paper, I will argue how racially marked female bodies are represented. This paper will mainly focus on how these racially marked women are depicted in the hip hop culture. To demonstrate this, I will draw examples by using award winning music videos by Nicki Minaj, R.Kelly, 50 cent to exemplify representations of the female body and how they are objectified as sex objects. In conclusion, we will be able to see how the female bodies are used in mainstream hip hop videos to convey seductively.

The images shown on the media cause women to feel like they are not good enough for society.

Women are consistently looked upon as being all the same with consistent expectations given to them by men. In Girl by Jamaica Kincaid women are assigned gender roles and if they don 't follow their roles completely men consider them worthless. Women must be aware of their place and what is expected of them. As stated in Girl “This is how to hem a dress...to prevent yourself from looking like a slut I know you are so bent on becoming(Kincaid 319).” If women aren 't able to sew the clothes, do the laundry, wash the dishes, clean the house, and act the way they 're told their not a “real” women. There is no in between, you 're either a good woman or a slut. If you can 't do the tasks that men believe are crucial to a woman 's role in society, it makes them nothing more than a slut. It seems as though men think not many women are capable of holding themselves to this standard. This standard of living and trying to live up to

Feminine ideals have been constantly changing, and they still are since female empowerment and gender equality issues have transpired. Back in the 1950’s when women were expected to be good housewives and raise the kids. In this day and age women are pushed to go into fields of study that used to be men only. Media and how they portray women have influenced this evolution in American society.

Male gender roles in contemporary media that are negatively portrayed through masculinity greatly effects the physical, psychological, and behavioral image of men. The social construct of masculinity in society and its relationship to males is generally reflected in male media consumption. The popular concept of women’s feminine image in the media is vastly overshadowed and more predominantly acceptable in subtle society in comparison to male’s image of masculinity.

Some promote antiquated ideals that discourage women in the workforce, insisting they carry domestic responsibility instead. They also shed light on double standards that are thought to oppress males and benefit females.

In the early Greek and Roman times, women were thought to be evil and inferior. They were considered to be less important to men and were thought to be incapable of handling emotions. The male population thought women were something they could just throw around and not have to worry about. Throughout history, women were thought to be emotional, unstable, and unequal to men, however, that has changed for the better in the last 50 years. Women now have either equal pay, or close to what men get paid, which is a big step up for gender equality (Philosophical feminism).

As a consequence of this way of thinking, women are not afforded the same social respect as men. If the places in the picture were switched and it was a man walking down the street, he wouldn’t feel uncomfortable. Men are often taught that it is okay to receive this kind of attention; in fact some of them are taught that it is good and should be celebrated. But this isn’t the case with women, they are criticized if they enjoy or celebrate this kind of attention. The double standards are still strong in today’s world and this contributes for women to not be treated as

In association with being “pretty,” women are also subjected to the overly sexualized image of what is feminine. Women are constantly thought of in a sexual light no matter what they do, and Tannen points this phenomenon out when she writes,

More and more men are holding power over women. When this happens women feel afraid to be themselves and being very insecure and feel they have no purpose. Sadly this is happening more and more in society. This is also shown in Literature books as well, so society has learned and followed what authors have wrote and not it is happening more and more. In the novels, A Doll's House and The Great Gatsby we see that women in the books have strong relationships, but men believe they hold higher power, which can lead womens self esteem to go down, causing them to feel like they have no purpose.