Harassment In Hollaback

Beyoncé Knowles’s Lemonade video album brings the words of Beyoncé into a visual media and shows the viewer a deeper meaning behind the album. After this video came out many articles came forward analyzing Lemonade. One article, in particular, that was intriguing is Bell Hooks “Moving Beyond Pain.” Hooks starts her article saying that the Lemonade video was created as a money-making, business strategy, but as the text continues the reader can conclude that “Moving Beyond Pain” is actually about African American women, and women in general, standing up for themselves.

Coming from a country in a part of the world where being misogynistic is incredibly prevalent and often encouraged, I have witnessed and been around many acts of sexual harassment as well as victims of it. At a very young age, I learned that my first cousin was sexually harassed by her husband’s brother when they were alone and that is when I learned the true horrors of the world. Everyone knew the truth about what happened, but no one helped my cousin, not her husband, her father, or her brothers. Sadly, Where I’m from, a third world country, is not the only place things like this happen. There are acts of sexual harassment even in countries like America in big corporations such as Hollywood. We’ve learned about these many acts through recent

Rebecca Solnit’s article focuses on the ways male violence negatively affects women. Harassment from men directed at women keep women from speaking up, and many women are living in constant fear of male violence. They live in a constant state of fear because they are aware male violence is taking place around them. Women are also afraid of potential male violence because men openly express authoritative behavior. She explains men feel they have the validity to control and abuse women. Specifically, a man will approach a woman with the expectation that the woman will return the man with a sexual favor. For example, “a woman was stabbed after she rebuffed a man’s sexual advances while she walked in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood late Monday night…”

For nearly twenty years, Beyoncé has lived her life in the public eye yet she has always kept her cool, been submissive, and rather quiet when it came to her personal endeavors however after releasing the film “Lemonade”, we are able to see her in a vulnerable light. In Jeremy Helliger’s article: “Dear Beyhive: Stop Whining. Beyoncé Still Hasn’t Earned Her Album Of The Year Grammy” he addresses the idea that although Beyoncé was able to encourage black women to be proud and free, she also she missed the mark by adding raunchy, over the top content to her vulnerability.

Women should not be exposed on an ad about becoming a vegetarian due to the suggested violence. The suggested violence in advertisements could be the reason why women everyday are being degraded just because of their gender. There is no excuse to having a woman naked to get across a point. This organization demeans women by taking her, making her naked, and showing off the parts of her body to get a completely off topic view across. Advertisers have come to the point where they will do anything and say anything to sell a product or an idea. Kilbourne explains that “there is no doubt that flagrant sexism and sex role stereotyping abound in all forms of the media” (283). Kilbourne elucidates that women play roles as a piece of meat on television. Women are not portrayed as strong people in most advertisements and because of that, there becomes a normalcy to women not being strong people, which in the long run creates stereotypes.

This article discusses the documentary’s focuses of the public hearing of Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas and the feelings behind the facts that were stated during the hearing. The article served to be a promotion regarding the Frontline documentary airing on the PBS channel that day. It addresses the issues of gender and race as the program explains the confrontation between Hill and Thomas in the context of the struggles of both a black woman and man in a white society. The struggles between a black woman and man suggest the gender issues of the day raising awareness towards sexual harassment acts in the work place. The debate invokes the representation in the power structures of race and gender creating a topic of intersectionality. The perspective of both Hill and Thomas are portrayed in the true purpose of the allegation and

This movie won the actress a Grammy Award but in this movie your watching a girl being physically, verbally and sexually abused at home. The only time she was safe was at school. What does this type of information teach? It could teach a positive message but I believe that in reality all it did was downgrade women and especially African American women. Movies and the News aren’t the only means to project violence within our culture.

In the music videos, I saw women being mistreated. I can’t knock someone’s hustle but I don’t think artists need to take their videos to the extreme. I didn’t feel like Biggie, Tupac, and Cash Money [popular artists in the early 90s] were as fixated on the women. They were more about showing off their money and cars, and clothes. (Roberts-Douglass & Curtis-Boles, 2012, p. 10)

Within the advertisement they broadcast systemically reenforced and exaggerated a large number of stereotypes about both men and women. Some may wonder, however, how this really effects everyday life. If someone sees so many ads in a day what is one more, one that is just a bit more sexist than the typical beer ad. While this it is true that the average person is overstimulated by the number of ads as it is there is still something to be said for the content of the ads. Even if a person doesn’t mentally acknowledge them the brain still notes them and stores them in the brain. If time after time one sees women in the submissive role or treated as objects, chances are they will start subconsciously believing it. On the other hand if men are constantly portrayed as stupid and hormone driven then that bias will start to seep into reality. There are also significant moral issues with this ad, if time after time women are portrayed simply as a visual feast it changes how they will be treated for the rest of their lives. Next time they walk down the street theres a chance a man may catcall her, acknowledging the fact that she was in some way appealing to him. He doesn’t do this because she is smart, funny or kind he does this simply because he was pleased by her appearance and may even think he is complementing her. However, by doing this he reenforces what the media has

An image of a protest sign continues to resonate with me. Men are occasionally told to imagine a victim of sexual assault is your mother or sister, although that is a problem it leaves the open notion that is the only reason to not sexually assault someone. The sign said reminder people that women don’t need to be remember as a mother or sister but as human

Bowman believes it is a grand issue that needs attention and help from the judiciary. Bowman gives her feminist perspective as she believes women are simply victimized by walking on the street. She gives examples of how men speak vulgarly to women and women have to put up with street harassment when alone. As men harass women they take away women’s freedom of privacy and make women believe they’re better off at home rather than out in public.

In our western culture, many do not perceive women as an oppressed group. The reality is that women are very much oppressed, as women do not have access to the important conversations that influence their lives. Men create the space for these conversations, and there is no room for women in this narrow space. Rebecca Walker discusses the effect crude language has on women in Becoming the Third Wave, opening the piece with commentary on the verdict met in the Clarence Thomas case. Walker argues that the Anita Hill v. Clarence Thomas hearings were not about whether or not Thomas committed the crime, but instead checking the credibility of women and men’s power.

With a fake girl they lured men in and busted them, they found that clients didn’t have a specific description, but that it could be absolutely anyone. One thing that I found surprising and didn’t know about was how families in poverty used this as an escape. How they put their own children out there and how it was hard to bust them. The reason is because of no evidence and how the girls wouldn’t testify because it’s their own family member. These girls were being forced by their parents and had no choice. Unlike in the video “Girls Going Wild,” we see how their ad relates to girls being lied to about careers and being moved away from home. They advertise that women shouldn’t be bought or sold, the emotions of the crowd change once they find out the real story. The other video that talks about ads is “We are the Lions,” how women are sexually exploited and how this changes our perspectives on them. With the story that he tells, he makes it clear that it isn't a women's issue, but instead a mens. One thing I hear a lot in most of the videos is how we are always asking women the questions, but we never ask the

In the article, “When Rape Goes Viral,” Ann Friedman, a columnist for New York magazine’s website and the Columbia Journalism Review, argues that in this time period that sexual assaults are becoming more aware of and tackled due to social media. People are viewing these assaults by videos, picture, and postings from different social media pages, claims Friedman. Friedman reports that the postings of these pictures and videos have helped in multiple cases of sexual assaults. If there were no photos or videos of evidence from the cases then some of the convictions that have been made throughout time might not have ever happened, argues Friedman. She insists that the post with the most attention leave the victims in traumatic circumstances that

Many of the violence against men are not recognized because police and hospitals are only trained to look for violence against women (Cook, 2004). If they see a man with a black eye, they think it's because he was in a fight with another man. In fact, it seems that no one wants to hear about male victims. To the public, they are an embarrassment and threaten the validity of the stereotype that the majority of men are violent and aggressive. Sometimes they are blamed for being the victims or the violence against them is justified in a variety of ways (Flor, 1999). As a culture we prefer to make the male victims the subject of humor and banter, not offer them help.