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she definitely is. i'm not really allowed to listen to her because my mother got ahold of the teaches of peaches, looked at the song titles, and freaked. but i'll play her all the time and my mother never listens to the lyrics so she doesn't notice.



some children will look at the media and use it as an example of how they should be treated or how they should treat others. little girls dress sluttier because they want to look like the girls in the videos that they so adore. little boys will see the rappers, many of whom devalue women, as role models, and will emulate them.

there's also a flip side to this; at my sister's birthday party once, i was flipping channels while we waited for one little girl to arrive and i stopped on mtv, where a music video for beyonce's "baby boy" was playing. it was the scene where beyonce is laying on the bed in a semi-skimpy top rolling around. immediately i was accosted by screams of "GROSS! EW! SICK!" from ten-year-old girls. so hopefully, they'll see this as something they don't want to become.

it's very unbalanced. many videos inclued women with a lot of skin exposed and a** shaking, it doesn't even up with how many videos we see with exposed men.

i loooove missy elliot. i just bought her new cd, "the kitchen". it rocks.

i don't really hate rap. i mean, i'm not a fan, but i'm not horribly against it. now, stuff like eminiem bugs the piss out of me. seeing music videos where there are a bunch of women in clothing that isn't really there with their unnaturally massive breasts hanging out bothers me. that's how women are protrayed to be. that's how many people think of, "real," women (which is why i admire women like kathleen hanna (and even courtney love), because they're REAL women!!). i wrote some big post on a website about that god damned a** like that song. s**t like that honestly makes me feel a bit embarrassed...i think stuff like, "oh god, is THAT how people think of women? if so, i don't want it..." the girl upstairs listens to that s**t, not the..."nice" rap or anything, not even the i-got-shot-rap, but the stuff that's ALL about objectifying women...it just makes me want to throw a bikini kill cd in her face...*rolls eyes*

I don't have a problem with Rap, I don't pay attention to the lyrics much anymore. Most of it sounds the same, anyway.

I do hate when the women make themselves look like assholes while representing us, though. Like, when they throw out there that they're women, then in the next line, they're talking about having sex constantly and using men, etc. A lot of people think that it's empowering for women and such, but I think that it's embarrassing for us.

i really like the beat to a lot of rap songs, regardless of the lyrics, but if the song has offencive (hey brits, is that how you spell it? i'm just a poor american girl; help me out here. i know it's 'offence', but 'offencive' looks funny.) lyrics, then i won't listen to it.

i have a babysitter (i cannot drive yet, thus i must have someone to drive me and my sister around while my parents are at work) from the czech republic. she doesn't understand a lot of 'dirty' stuff that the songs on the radio are saying, so she always listens to them. i was in her car the other day, and that song by fat joe and all those other rappers...what's it called..."get it poppin'" maybe...came on. there was one part where it was like "you like it more than i like it it's written all over your face don't fight it" which i thought made it seem like it was a man's duty to have sex with any willing woman, regardless of whether he was really feeling something special or not. overanalysing? maybe.