Gender Roles In Japan

In many shops, there seems to be an obvious separation between boys and girls items, for example, the birthday cards, books, clothes, and toys. This is shown in a variety of ways the boy's items are mainly the color blue and the books have pictures of either action figures, superheroes or tools. Whereas the girl's items are mainly the color pink. The books show pictures of fairies, princess, and Bratz. The cards also have the theme of the color pink for girls and blue for boys. The girl's cards have a lot of sparkles and pretty pictures whereas the boy's cards are covered in camo kind of illustrations and also have action figures on the covers. The children's clothes are separated into sections where there are labels for the boy's clothes and labels for the girl's clothes. The girl's clothing is all pretty and pink, it is covered in sparkles. Whereas boys clothing has camo patterns, blue colors, and pictures of action figures.

In present day all around the world, society has certain expectations for the actions and behaviors of males and females. There are many factors in our everyday lives that contribute to the gender norms that society has set. This essay will discuss how situations in life can play a part in how people treat other people based on their gender. It is believed that males are the leaders of our world, but in present day woman can do as much as men can do. From The Journal of Marriage and Family, Hu states, “Differentiated gender roles in adulthood are rooted in one’s gender role socialization. In order to understand the persistence of gender inequalities in the domestic sphere, we need to examine the gendered patterns of children’s housework time.”(2015, P.1). Gender roles are society’s expectations of the proper behavior, attitudes, and activities of males and females that they must be taught. These roles define how females and males are viewed in society, their household, and workplace. In The Journal of Sports behavior by Hardin, he states, “Although gender role differences from biological and “Natural” exists in popular consciousness, research has long demonstrated that instead, many are long time socially constructed… Individuals understand their gender because they are given names and treated in particular ways, such as dress in pink for girls and blue for boys, that reflect social construction of gender. Bandura's social cognitive theory is key in understanding the factors in socialization”(2009, P.3). Bandura's theory of of social cognition is that behavior, environmental events, and cognitive factors are the main keys that shape attitudes and actions of an individual. Although, gender roles play a very big part in our society, specific genders are treated differently while dealing with peer influence, media influence, as well as employment.

One of the biggest ways hip hop is demeaning towards women is the objectivity of women. Women in the hip hop industry and basically seen as disposable sex toys. Rose says that hip hop divides women into groups, one that is worth respect and protection and the other that just isn’t. “In this hip hop does not break from the fundamental logic of mainstream masculinity so much as convey it with excess, bravado, and extra insult” (Rose 119). Many ask the question why many other topics have standards such as “rap[ping] against police…[or] against gay…” (Rose 120) but it’s all fair game against women. However it is not only the men in the hip hop game that are objectifying women. Rappers like Lil’ Kim, Trina, and Foxy Brown use the same “sex sells” method to grow on the hip hop ladder, but they feel like they have to. That’s the only way to be noticed and get attention (Rose 123). “Kim herself admitted that she uses her identity as Lil’ Kim to get money, ‘a character I use to sell my records’” (Rose 124). If even girls in hip hop feel the need to have to go by this method, what are the chances that younger females will do any differently?

In black media today the hip hop culture is often referred to when defining what it means to be a black person in society. In particular the hip hop culture is where many young black men pull both positive and negative aspects of black masculinity. Many mainstream hip hop songs often create a common misogyny by objectifying and stereotyping women. An example of this can be heard in the song Nasty Girl by The Notorious B.I.G. where he states:

One of Rap music's greatest criticisms is that it is sexist in its portrayal of women. Some argue that Hip-hop music teaches young children to look at women as "bitches" and "hoes", as women are often called in various hip-hop songs. It is this negative message that has constantly kept rap music in a national spotlight. Critics view sexism in rap as a symptom of an increasingly crumbling set of social values in the black urban community.

Though the above information is talking about sexual scripting in regards to African American women, the information could be relevant to all women. This is due to the fact that hip hop influences women all around the world, whether it be for example European women or African American women. The hip hop songs that are being played in America are the same as those that are being played in other countries and therefore, the women in those countries are also susceptible to the sexual scripts in hip hop. This can be seen in the way they dress (imitating the women in the music videos) or even using the same slang that is being used by the rappers. It can also be seen in changing standards of beauty, where more women now think its important to have a big bum and boobs and a small waist. This could be said to be an ideal that has been portrayed to them through the use of curvaceous

Today in Hip Hop every rapper has to portray themselves as being hard, having a lot of girls in their circle and having money. Since the beginning of the American society being considered a real man was to be able to protect their families. When television came around western films portrayed men as either strong or weak and defined their masculinity as being the stronger man because of their guns. For example in a western movie during a draw two men would be about twenty feet away from each other and whichever man shot the other man first won the draw and was then considered the dominant male and very masculine. Therefore what goes on in rap

Hip-Hop culture objectifies both men and women as both violent and aggressive and very sexual beings. For women, it shows them as simply sexual objects, whether it be half naked in music videos dancing in a sexual manner or through the lyrics which talk about the plethora of women these men have had sexual relations with. For men, it shows this hyper masculine misogynistic aggressive male body displayed in the video as well as in the lyrics with multitudes of underdressed women in the background dancing often being groped without any actual consent. This sends the message that women do not have avoice and are simply there to please the

When hop hip started artists didn’t mention about women that much like now, artist used to always rap about the life style of what they went through. Hip hop back then was very new and any age could’ve listen to any type of songs and watch any type of videos. Hip hop is consist of mainly African American artists, and a lot of these women portrayed in these videos are African American women. Mostly African American young girls are affected by hip hop culture because they see other African American women in the videos. When young girls see these types of videos and see the way they are dressed. They become negatively influenced by what they see and this is exactly how the false images are spread throughout the community. Hip hop

This goes back to Asian women and men having a specific porn category based on their ethnicity. Asian women are seen as objects to the point white men believe that they need to be dominated by them. Usually these girls speak in broken English or in their native language, dressed in cosplay looking clothing. (Dao, 2011). Many didn’t know they would be playing into the stereotypes that define Asian women today, but they have no choice if they want to make it in the entertainment business. In modern times, anime and music video concepts twist the way men view young girls. For instance, anime girls have big busts and skin tight clothing, this sometimes contrasts artistic concepts where the girls follow a cute theme and look “childish”. An example would be Red Velvet, a South-Korean girl group who recently released a music video where they are wearing similar outfits young girls wear at school, such as the school uniforms or their gym clothes, along with youthful hairstyles popular in Asia. (SMtown, 2016). There are also girl groups that are forced to appeal to the male demographic, where they wear tight clothes, short skirts or dresses. These concepts only feed into the Asian fetish and make young Asian girls a bigger target for

Homosexuality, a social norm to degrade women, and sexual assault are all aspects of how sexuality has been affected by the new school hip-hop. For starters, one factor of how sexuality has been altered due to the new development of hip-hop is through homosexuality. Homosexuality was not a social norm until rappers started to promote lesbian actions. The “girl on girl” theme was implemented to cater to men’s fantasies. A numerous amount of song lyrics mentioned

Secondly, “gender” is the key elements of cultural formation of hip-hop. When focusing on this aspect, there are obvious influences from African American hip-hop to Asian hip hop. The fashion of the black people, so-called street fashion presents the connotative bad image of black people, such as drag and violence. Therefore, it can be presumed that these fashion establishes the symbol of bad authority or “manliness” to Asian rapper. Therefore, in the most of the music video of Asian hip-hop, the rappers wear caps, oversize t-shirt, and gold accessories, like African American rappers do.

In most videos, women reveal their bodies in sexual ways with lack of clothing. Most teens claim that it is the beat of the music rather than what's going on in the video. For Example “Sexualized identity of Black women. For instance, in conversations, many of the youth said that it was the “beats,” not the lyrics, that are important to them about hip-hop. In this case attractive and highly feminine girls like Tiffany were among the ones that were able to perform and receive attention in this setting” by Andreana Clay,2003.There have been popular american hip-hop artists, such as Eminem, Ludacris that have increasingly depicted women as objects of violence. Studies have shown almost half of an music video involve sexual activity towards women .For Instance, “....policy statement that found 75% of music videos involved sexual imagery, and more than half involved violence -- usually against women.” Sid Kirchheimer,2003. Although some teens have said it was the beat, Artists have caused society to view women differently because of the image artists have left on

Women are having an expectation to look a certain way, they are viewed to serve as an object. There are over a thousand of songs that prove women are viewed as objects. They are not only objectified but they are as well as sexualized. Artist have come forward in interviews and explain their experiences of being sexualized especially in a Hip Hop industry. Throughout my research, I found numerous facts on how music, hip hop in general influences the public and how women are being treated.

It is no secret that for centuries, the Japanese woman has been, to most observers, a model of elegance and graceful beauty. A picture of a kimono-clad, modest, and often silent woman has been plastered everywhere, allowing for the upmost passive subjection. If we look deeper into this image of woman, can we tell if this picture is complete? How do these women painted in representative images far in the modern world? The ideal woman in Japan is expected to be both a good wife, and a wise mother. Though these seem like reasonable expectations, there is a much deeper meaning to them that has shown signs of being outdated. During the 1800’s and 1900’s, women were subjected to society’s vision of them, and could not break free for fear of the