Women In Popular Culture
Society has always seemed to be prejudiced against women; and in present times today, that still seems to be an underlying issue. To the same extent, women are often considered as being worthless — and inferior to their male counterparts. However, this often results in women being degraded in present day society. Today’s popular culture and hip-hop is extremely disrespectful to women, not everything — but a vast majority of popular culture and hip-hop is just utterly despicable towards women. Imagine the internal mindset of a woman, and how such blatantly hurtful words and gestures can alter a woman’s mindset. The music and actions towards women are extremely discouraging and distasteful. How can a woman remain positive and remain inwardly
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The media has the ability to aggravate and cultivate the minds of those who constantly engage and partake in the deliverance of such content. One theory that impelled research on how cultivation can affect the mind and attitudes towards a particular issue was the cultivation theory. Young adults are the ones who the media hopes to garner a lot of attention from, which is another reason why popular culture and hip-hop music should carefully depict how women are portrayed. In From Dr. Dre to Dismissed : Assessing Violence, Sex, and Substance Use on MTV, author Stacy L. Smith argues, “Young adults between the ages of 16 and 30 are the most likely age group to consume rap/hip-hop music, and in turn, may become desensitized to the derogatory lyrics condoning relationship violence and sexual aggression.” Smith argues a great point, because the media attempts to cultivate the mind into viewing women in a negative light, and when you become so very accustomed to engaging in popular culture and hip-hop music that degrades and dehumanize women, you become insensitive to dismissive misogynystic beliefs in relation to women. The cultivation theory is a logical concept because it numbs you to sexual degradability of women; as well as sexual harassment and sexual violence — you basically become blind to the prejudice contempt of
The media has the ability to aggravate and cultivate the minds of those who constantly engage and partake in the deliverance of such content. One theory that impelled research on how cultivation can affect the mind and attitudes towards a particular issue was the cultivation theory. Young adults are the ones who the media hopes to garner a lot of attention from, which is another reason why popular culture and hip-hop music should carefully depict how women are portrayed. In From Dr. Dre to Dismissed : Assessing Violence, Sex, and Substance Use on MTV, author Stacy L. Smith argues, “Young adults between the ages of 16 and 30 are the most likely age group to consume rap/hip-hop music, and in turn, may become desensitized to the derogatory lyrics condoning relationship violence and sexual aggression.” Smith argues a great point, because the media attempts to cultivate the mind into viewing women in a negative light, and when you become so very accustomed to engaging in popular culture and hip-hop music that degrades and dehumanize women, you become insensitive to dismissive misogynystic beliefs in relation to women. The cultivation theory is a logical concept because it numbs you to sexual degradability of women; as well as sexual harassment and sexual violence — you basically become blind to the prejudice contempt of