Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Is Hip Hop making rape hip?
I recently read up on Ashley Judd's accusations, that Adrese mentioned in class, about Hip Hop culture objectifying women and promoting a rape culture. It turns out that Judd is a humanitarian who is an ambassador for the "Youth AIDS" orgnaization that promotes AIDS awareness. After recieving violent threats as well as sexual threats she proceeded to make an apology to the hip hop community. The article i read ( http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8768388-ashley-judd-caves-to-hiphop-death-threats ) actually agreed with Adrese in that the journalist felt it was weak of her to back down and retract her statement which was for the most part accurate. I can understand why some hip hop artists who's music has a more positive inspirational vibe would feel stereotyped, but truth be told for the most part her accusations were spot on for main stream Hip Hop culture. In another class I'm taking we recently discussed Latino masculinity, and one point that was made by the professor was that in Hip Hop, males who promote the stereotype of having a large "sexual organ" are only harming themselves. Does anyone else think that this also promotes a rapist image?
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