Man Down Gender Roles

Director Sut Jhally, in his documentary film, “Dreamworlds 3: Desire, sex, and power in music videos”, analyzes the issue of how women are portrayed in the music world. Jhally, in his film argues how music and media has become a proud industry when it comes to advertising women, all for the benefit of popularity and record sales. Jhally believes these videos both inform and misinform our culture about our dominant attitudes regarding femininity masculinity, sexuality and race. He uses an empathetic tone in order to appeal to pathos, the feelings and experiences in women when he presents video clips that are somewhat offensive to watch as proof that women have become a common necessity shown in music videos. Often presented as being sexually aggressive and submissive, being objectified by men. He also intentionally wants to try to stir up emotions as he introduces song lyrics of women being called inappropriate names and images of women being fondled by men throughout the film. Sometimes, aggressively without consent.

Allen’s music video introduces half-naked women committing sexual acts in a provocative scene to establish the role of women in pop culture as dehumanizing. The scene starts with Allen joining the female dancers, clothed enough to barely cover their genitals, beginning their dance routine. As Allen sings, the dancers are seen performing the twerk, and the video zooms on the dancer’s genitals as the dancers lick their hands and slap their genitals. Allen’s incendiary scene highlights women as needing to be overly sexualized in music videos and performing suggestive behaviors to be included in pop culture. This scene dehumanizes women in music videos because women are expected to behave and dress in a specific manner or not be included in the

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.

lyrically demonstrates how Black men should treat a woman as if she is a prostitute as opposed to catering to her needs. African-American men rap about violence and degrading women because they have witnessed violence as well as lacking a positive female role model. Black women are given few justifications for their labels. They are often deprived a father figure, face economic hardships, and domestic abuse while society fails to acknowledge these as factors for their lack of self-confidence or their sexual behavior. Sometimes all it takes is a word to implant self-confidence and self-esteem in a woman, just as all it takes is a word to strip it away.

In 2014, the pop band, Maroon 5, released a video for their single “Animals”. In the video the lead singer, Adam Levine takes the role of a butcher who stalks one of the store’s female customers. Throughout, he goes to great lengths to obsessively observe the woman, even to the length of taking pictures of her sleep without her being knowledgeable of his presence. The video ends with a nude Adam Levine nakedly holding the woman while blood drops on them from above, followed by menacingly staring into the camera in the rain. Viewing this video one cannot help but see how it exemplifies how mainstream media promotes the objectification of women and sexual violence. This is especially apparent from around the marks of :21 and :26, where the video

Identity is a performance that can be brought forth through clothing, which is found in this video. Clothing is often used to construct gender-“the performance of gender produces retroactively the illusion that there is an inner gender core.”(Butler, 1997). Throughout the video the women are shown wearing lingerie, swimsuits and tight, short clothing. This type of clothing is typically associated with the female gender to sexualise them. The use of this clothing is contrasted to that of the band who are completely covered while the women have their bodies shown for most the video. This creates a sexualisation of these women in the video. The choice to have the women in little clothing creates an emphasis on their bodies and that they are simply there as props for the video as the serve no significant purpose, they are simply there for sex appeal to attract male viewers. Their dancing is mostly static and confined, not necessarily provocative but this is a way to reinforce the idea that they are simply puppets and the focus is on how they look. Recent studies performed an analysis of sexual content in music video genres found, 26 per cent of all genres studied (Rap, Hip-hop, Rock, RnB and Country) had females dancing sexually and 18.6 per cent showed ‘heavy cleavage’ (Steingraber, 2009). This music video is one such example, where the women’s cleavage is exposed and their dancing although minimal and not as provocative as in other music videos still serves as a key way in which music videos sexualise

“No matter how much people may talk about its artistic merit, it nonetheless objectifies and therefore demeans women by casting them in the mould of whore.” (Cox) The present statement is what Laura Cox, journalist at the Daily Mail, summarizes of “Pour it up”, the music video released in 2013 by Rihanna to launch her new song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehcVomMexkY). The video is constructed on an extreme usage of female’s bodies and it poorly represents the image of women expressed today by mainstream media channels. Moreover, the singer fluctuates her body; she portrays pole dancers, strippers and some dance moves including ‘twerking’, a particular alluring hip-style of dancing. (Cox)

In 2013, Robin Thicke, a relatively unknown but well-seasoned R&B singer, found major success in his upbeat song “Blurred Lines,” which featured the big-named artists Pharrell Williams and T.I. (McKinley). The hit song broke records by spending 16 weeks on top of Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Song chart, its popularity earning it the title of Billboard’s Song of the Summer (Ramirez). The uncensored video on Vevo features three female models wearing nothing but shoes and nude-colored underwear dancing and strutting around Thicke, Williams, and T.I., who are fully dressed and frequently seen looking at the women’s bodies. Although “Blurred Lines” garnered extreme popularity, it didn’t go unnoticed that the lyrics and video, especially when paired together, tended to be off-putting for women, even though there was supposedly no intention of sexist allusions. When viewed through the lens of Stuart Hall’s “Encoding/decoding” model, the stark contrast between the creators’ intended meaning of the “Blurred Lines” video and the way in which the audience perceived it illustrates???

The first article we will examine is Women of Color in Hip Hop: The Pornographic Gaze. This article takes a deep look into mainstream hip-hop music and explores the controversial topic of how women are conveyed in this genre. From Ja rule to Beyoncé, the authors pick popular artists to show how degrading the lyrics of popular songs can have on females and slightly pornographic undertone messages as well. The writer informs the reader on how women are viewed in the public eye as they are exploited publically in a sexual manner either as a stripper or prostitute. Mr. Cheeks describes a night out in the club in his song Lights Cameras Action; “I’m fucking with

Food is one of the important needs to survive. In addition, in 400 B.C. the Greek physician Hippocrates found the food effect on the human body. During the Victorian era, the nutrition was developed into the scientific and medically. Therefore, people started to create the health products and realized that they should watch what they are eating for their better quality of the lives. Today, people can classify as two types of eating, which are the emotional and physical eating. This paper will cover the different kinds of eating and how gender roles, mood, and hormones can effect on a person's body.

who are now known more for their videos than for their music. At times these

The music video Booty (by Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea) is about the bottom and how it is used to show that skinny girls with larger assets are more attractive than girls with a more flat chest and bottom. This essay explores the idea of sexualization of women in music videos and how women are shown through the 'male gaze', also this shows how women are easily portrayed in the media. The main purpose of this video is that they are trying to say that having a bigger bottom will help you to succeed more in life but it will also help you to gain attention from either sex. In the video by not wearing very many clothes that cover up very much, it will help to gain attention therefore creating more views than what they would have got with more

Everyone may have different views on the video but this is the way I analyzed it. After watching the video “Blurred lines” I can see that it portraits many masculine and feminine messages.The masculine messages this music portraits is to be a man you have to control of a woman.”I know you want it ” stating that they are on control. Another manly message is that a man doesn't get rejected. “You can't drink with someone and expect this not to happen” This is supporting that man shouldn't get rejected and if they do they still will continue with anything they please to. In the video males are dressed up in suits which i do believe that when a man is dressed up it makes them feel in power and confident on appearcance.

The song “Big Pimpin’” women are looked upon as objects where there is a lot of hypersexual activity throughout the video. Women are rubbing themselves upon the artist and flaunting their bodies in a degrading manner. This music video emphasizes the ‘original’ black men nature, how they prefer big butts and big-breasted women. The video’s obvious focus is based on the lower region of women’s body: the women’s butts. This video reinstates the fact that women must always look a certain way to be desired by men. All women in the video are dressed a certain way so we can focus on their bodies, white women’s breasts are shown more than the black women’s breast. However the black women’s butts are shown more than the white women’s butt. This demonstrates the stereotype that continues to this day that women will only be viewed as an object. The music video identifies a stereotype that men will always prefer women with a sexier body than those with regular bodies. “The sexist lyrics, images, and scenarios in hip-hop music videos are alarming because they perpetuate gender stereotypes and discrimination.” (Chung,

Sexualisation can be defined as the imposing adult sexuality on to children and young people before they are capable of coping with it usually through the media. In my investigation I aim to discover the effects that sexualisation of men and women in music videos and the effects that this has, mentally and emotionally, on the younger Australian generation. I also aim to discover the extent to which music videos have been sexualized over time.