Are rap videos degrading to women?

Question

It seems like the women in the videos seem to enjoy being there, what do you think about these women?

How do female and male viewers feel when they watch the videos?

Answer 1

Before answering that question you have to understand that today's society is practically built on the fundamental exploitation of women.

Sex sells.. and that's the premise of why we have knock-out models in movies and videos there to "shake their moneymaker" with some "junk in their trunk", etc.

They look like they're enjoying being there with the rapper or singer that's degrading them in their song (usually by using some type of sterotypical gender based slur like b**ch or Hoe, etc) simply because they're either

1. Paid to be there and the amount they've been paid is more than adequate to overshadow any morals or beliefs they may have (depending on their upbringing) or how much they care about 'selling out' other women by smiling while they take the abuse of the singer.

or

2. They have no values or morals and are there because they simply wanted to be on-camera and are probably trying to get jobs acting, modeling or just have the 'props' of being in a music video.

How do I feel watching them?
I won't lie and say they're not attractive (some of them) but, for the most part, the women in rap videos aren't my type anyway...

I'm more of a Catherine Zeta Jones and Queen Latifa type guy. I.E. Classy women that wouldn't degrade themselves like that.

Answer 2

Rap videos are just a part of the business and sex sells. As for being degrading these women do it to themselves. No one forced them to show up to the set. Truth is money is what brings these women to the set. Believe it or not most of these women have degrees and great jobs, the whole video girl thing brings in far more money. Some of these women have used video money to pay their way through college.

A man will only do what he feels he can get away with when it comes to women. I once seen a video where the rapper slid a credit card down the crack of some woman's butt. Now if the woman had refused to for the scene, then he would've asked someone else. If that woman refused as well as any other woman asked, then there would've been no scene. But the truth is there's always some woman ou there who has no problem with making that money.

Think about it, if women collectively refused to shake their behinds in these videos. The whole concept of the video would have to change. As for me, I enjoy different types of videos.

Answer 3

Yes, the way they dress is portraying the message big bootied hoes are desirable to men. I hate these videos, they are disrespectful and disgusting. Many of these women in the videos were found on street corners and strip clubs, not in respectable society. Teenaged girls are looking at these videos and are trying so hard to look like these disgusting females, thinking this is what men want, what attracts men... But it isn't only in rap, look at Brittney Spears and Christina A. ... little girls wanting to wear make-up and singing suggestive lyrics. Even Hillary Duff is becoming a h o. Its sad that the youth of today are being influenced by people that have no respect for themselves or each other.

Answer 4

I as a veiwer, truly belive yes, it is very degrading to both Women and Men. Seriously, how low to you have to be to expose your body to the whole world. But still there are some exceptions who do like that. Which, I think is still pretty sad. I havent' watched music and etc. videos for I belive about 2 years and I'm still going. What a waist of time and only to gain sin, which is not a crime , but is shame to one self.

Answer 5

I think that they can be. But so could any video. The people in the videos are there for a paycheck. But i also see videos that just have beautiful women dancing, and that itself is not degrading.

Answer 6

I find the ones with the dancing hos to be. Not all rap videos have hoochies, even if they have dancing.

Its like rock videos, remember Tawney humping the Jag? Or the Cherry Pie girl (It was racy for the 80's).

I think they are everyother working girl, thinking she's special because some man see's her as two 'its a hole and a heart beat.

Answer 7

I hate modern music and I don't watch videos but I've glimpsed them in the past. I feel that no one can be degraded unless they allow themselves to be.

Have you ever seen BET Uncut? It's practically pornography, but it's not like the rappers put guns to the girl's heads and forced them to do what they're doing. You can't say you're being degraded when you're doing something of your own free will.

Answer 8

Think about it...unless Im forced by gunpoint to get on the video stage and shake my *** in the latest g-unit video, when I make a informed choice to do so no one or thing is degrading me. I am degrading myself.

Answer 9

I think they enjoy getting paid a lot of money, but who wants to be degraded. I think some rap could be considered art, but for the most part, it isn't acceptable or appropriate.

Answer 10

i think of it fairly is not somewhat that--it rather is greater self-detrimental and self-degrading than insulting to easily women people. a lot of those movies glorify what was seen plagues on black communities. mutually as a great sort of hip-hop, even interior the 1880s, replaced right into slightly misogynistic, it have been given worse as quickly as those attitudes grew to become culturally marketable. i think of at lot of persons right here ignored the factor of decay: in spite of if a booty dancer does not inevitably signify your self, i'm no longer somewhat valuable our youngsters be responsive to the type. fantastically for economically deprived youngsters, such movies DO set a foul occasion for what's socially and morally perfect.