| Re: Is rap music degrating to women?
Excuses.
Words have meanings and leave immpressions.
Words like "nigger", "ho", "nympho", "slut", and "b-tches" have very definate meanings and none of them are positive. Anyone who uses them degrades themselves and anyone listening to them. They leave a lasting impression of depravity, disrespect, and self-corruption.
Dress like a slut/player, everyone will think you're a slut/player. Talk like a slut/player, everyone will think you're an uneducated slut/player with no respect for yourself or anyone else.
nig·ger
n. Offensive Slang
1.
1. Used as a disparaging term for a Black person: “You can only be destroyed by believing that you really are what the white world calls a nigger” (James Baldwin).
2. Used as a disparaging term for a member of any dark-skinned people.
2. Used as a disparaging term for a member of any socially, economically, or politically deprived group of people: “Gun owners are the new niggers... of society” (John Aquilino).
ho
n. pl. hos
Slang. A prostitute.
nym·pho
n. Informal
A female who is affected with nymphomania; a nymphomaniac.
nymphomaniac
adj : (used of women) affected with excessive sexual desire [syn: nymphomaniacal] n : a woman with abnormal sexual desires
slut
n.
1.
1. A woman considered sexually promiscuous.
2. A woman prostitute.
2. A slovenly woman; a slattern.
bitch
n.
1. A female canine animal, especially a dog.
2. Offensive.
1. A woman considered to be spiteful or overbearing.
2. A lewd woman.
3. A man considered to be weak or contemptible.
3. Slang. A complaint.
4. Slang. Something very unpleasant or difficult.
[vent] There is a big difference between talking about your society/culture and talking about women (or anyone) in these terms.
Comparisons have been made with other music styles and the fact that they also talk about sex. Yes, they do. They do not in general call all women prostitutes, spiteful, overbearing, and sexually abnormal however. [/vent]
I was excessivly saddened when I saw one of my favorite hip-hop artists in interveiw. She was beautiful with a lovely voice and extreamly graceful. Then she opened her mouth to talk. I was left with the lasting impression that she had no self respect or class. Her boyfriend/rapper on the other hand left me with the impression that he not only didn't have any self respect but that he didn't have any for her either. An impression based on both his apearance and his speech.
You may not like it, but that is how it is. Sorry. |