Are women who appear scantily clad in music videos shrewed business women or are they being exploited?

Question

I mean, it is a career move, isn't it?

Answer 1

They adults and able to make choices of their own. They are not being exploited...I would find it extremely hard to believe that they did not know exactly what they are doing.

Answer 2

I don't think they know they ar ebeing exploited. They are probably raised to believe that this kind of behavior is a way of life and the only way a man or boy will like them. I hear d acheerleader in my college class (she was not religious) say to my Biology teacher to come to Hooters and watch the wet T-shirt contest, he said that his wife would not like it, she said that all the managers had wives and didn't mind if their husbands went to the contest. Its just like th emen in the military town I am in, many of the wives don't mind if their man goes to a strip club, but I would, Even if a man does not touch, its still cheating and most of these women, even if they are in it for the money, have been sexually abused and don't know thye are being exploited or care that they are. Some of th ewomen are on drugs to and have habits to support. Soem of the women have married military men, so when the men say the stripper is in it for the money, I doubt it, not when a couple of the military men, I know are married to them.
The rapper vidoes are the worst, the women are scantily clad and shaking their booty, while the pimp is calling the girl a "B" or a ho. MTV has really wrecked todays youth.

Answer 3

Really good question. I don't think it's actually a personal reference to those women when the problem is discussed, I think these women are used as an example of what others consider to be oppressing/objectifying. I personally am not offended by these kinds of videos, but maybe someone who is trying to raise awareness when it comes to fairer wages between genders then it might feel as though these women are happy to let men leer at them for money and that itself opposes the very point of objectified. I mean after all, men don't pole dance for women nearly as much.

Answer 4

The answer to your question is most probably "no": just because a woman appears in a music video somewhere in the background alongside 15 other women...that's not necessarily a 'career move'. In the industry, this type of gig is called 'extra's' work. They are 'background performers'.

This is how it works:

An extra's casting director contacts local talent agencies about the number of background performers they need, their physical description, special talents and skills (like being able to dance; having professional training), etc. for a tv commercial, movie, or whatever. This is called a talent 'breakdown. "Mode Models" of Edmonton and Calgary, Canada is one such talent agency. Check them out at
http://www.modemodels.com/calgary/

Here's another example: "AAB Talent Management" of Vancouver and Toronto, Canada
http://www.aabtalent.com/

You get the picture. Anyway, the talent agencies choose the clients from their roster they think best fit the bill. These candidates are sent to to an audition. When an audition for background performers is open to the general public it's not-so-affectionally known as a 'cattle-call'. Background performers in music video's need to be able to dance, need to possess a certain 'look' (including but not limited to racial characteristics, body type, hair length); the making of music video's never involves a cattle call. The suitability of the candidates (in this case exclusively provided by talent agencies) is then judged by the extra's casting director, the film/commercial/video director and the producer (typically). Resume's are accepted, the actors photographed and their audition taped. After this material is reviewed the list is narrowed down. Then the callbacks begin. I can't think of a single high-profile career launched by doing extra's (background) work in music videos. Music video's have been around since the early 1980's.

Answer 5

These are women who are exploited in the name of profit & advancement.

In places like Cambodia, Nam, and Afganistan women will sell thier childreen into prostitution. They do this because they were sold as childreen into this lifestyle. They don't know of anyother existance. Same with the video ho's ... they've been programed by prior video's to accept this lifestyle. They no of no other way of life, or other dreams. How can anyone advance without dreams & imagination to acheive something greater than what you already are?

Answer 6

I hesitate to answer your question without interviewing the women working in the industry. I'm sure each one has her own story to tell. My best guess is a mix between free choice and exploitation.

Answer 7

Career move... women exploit themselves.. no one is making you be a model or a music video dancer if you don't want to.

Answer 8

It may be good for their careers but it don't do much for women in general. Men already think all women are good for is sex.

Answer 9

They're bimbos who want to be in a music video. They're shallow, egotistical bimbos, nothing more nothing less.

Answer 10

it's just a job. they take their high heels off one shoe at a time just like feminists
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