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Hip Hop videos disrespectful to women?

I seem to recall the great debate over the whole video chick thing. In my opinion the women choose to shake their butts for the cameras and do sexual favors for $. Nobody holds a gun to their head. And another thing, Hip Hop isnt the only genre of music that has video chicks writhing around on cars and in water. I have seen plenty of hard rock videos like that. Um can you say Tawny Kataen doing a split on a car in Whitesnake's video or Warrant's Cherry Pie? Exactly.

Public Comments

1. I heard they are but I don't watch it and never will..am more into oldies and rock. But trust me rock is more decent and there women are not hoes.
2. Are these people.... popular with the mass? I've never heard of them before.
3. I love Hip-Hop. The positive Hip-Hop.
4. LOL! It can only be disrespectful to an extent. The stupid women who actually watch those type of videos and enjoy listening to the Artist refer to them as bitches, hoes and talk about how they fuck them and stuff are disrespecting themselves. Dumb bitches he he....
5. Just because other music genres engage in the same practices doesn't excuse hip hop's contributions to it. And, guns may not be held up to the heads of the Women in the videos but that doesn't mean that they have limitless options or that our society is completely blameless in their exploitation. The way our society is constructed, the messages it sends particularly to young girls, means that our options are limited (more so than young boys). Some girls fall for the messages that they exist simply to entice men and others do not. The fault lies not only with those young women who do but with all of us in society who tolerate the messages that Women are sex objects, messages that hip hop (along with other music genres and media outlets) continues to sell to those who consume it. Hip hop is, in its present form, inherently disrespectful to Women. So are many rocj songs, so is nearly ALL advertising. Everyone has the responsibility to say that enough is enough but the hollywood machine, the lure of celebrity is still to great for that to occur. Peace, Jenn
6. I agree with you. It's a personal choice. Why put down the artists? They aren't doing anything that the women aren't willing to do. People should have common sense enough to know that these women don't represent women as a whole. But the fact that there are a bunch of idiots in this world who choose to do exactly that (generalize women based on what they see in videos) isn't the responsibility of the artists (or the '''video women''' either for that matter). We should be asking that people grow up rather than complaining about videos.
7. Its not really just the videos. Its the lyrics of the songs. Who is writting the lyrics? The rappers. The women in the videos act out the songs.