Media plays a substantial role in today's society, by broadcasting new information at quick pace and offering excitement to immeasurable crowds. They comprise of press, TV, movies, music, ads, the Internet and so much more. TV additionally has a wide field of impact. By conveying a specific kind of message, media can control individuals' disposition and conclusions on gender and how people should act accordingly.
Music can be an underlying factor when contributing to gender construction. In AWS’ “A Bitch iz a Bitch” it can be seen that there is an enormous amount of lyrics demeaning women as well as sexualising and objectifying them, this song is an example of male supremacy and just blatant misogyny. The lyric “Let’s describe a certain female. A female with the disease of …show more content…
If you will a snob. However, in the view of N.W.A.... A bitch is a bitch.” The line ‘A female with the disease of character and attitude’ implies that women are forbidden to have an attitude, forbidden to have character and it’s abnormal for women to have their own views, their own personality. It is deemed as a ‘disease’ as if a woman’s sense of self is something that should be eradicated. The lyrics ultimately dehumanize women so that they fit man’s preference, and are just regarding women as an ‘accessory’; a man’s sexual property. Male supremacy is a giant on-going theme in this song, in the lyric “It makes a girl like that think she better than me (bitch)” quite literally defines male supremacy and is speaking in medieval-like ways. Just because popular rap “gods” yell horrific things in to a microphone and slap some electronic music over it, doesn’t make the abominable things said ok. This song promotes violence against women, “Do like Ice Cube, slam her ass in a ditch (slam her ass)” and even rape
Music can be an underlying factor when contributing to gender construction. In AWS’ “A Bitch iz a Bitch” it can be seen that there is an enormous amount of lyrics demeaning women as well as sexualising and objectifying them, this song is an example of male supremacy and just blatant misogyny. The lyric “Let’s describe a certain female. A female with the disease of …show more content…
If you will a snob. However, in the view of N.W.A.... A bitch is a bitch.” The line ‘A female with the disease of character and attitude’ implies that women are forbidden to have an attitude, forbidden to have character and it’s abnormal for women to have their own views, their own personality. It is deemed as a ‘disease’ as if a woman’s sense of self is something that should be eradicated. The lyrics ultimately dehumanize women so that they fit man’s preference, and are just regarding women as an ‘accessory’; a man’s sexual property. Male supremacy is a giant on-going theme in this song, in the lyric “It makes a girl like that think she better than me (bitch)” quite literally defines male supremacy and is speaking in medieval-like ways. Just because popular rap “gods” yell horrific things in to a microphone and slap some electronic music over it, doesn’t make the abominable things said ok. This song promotes violence against women, “Do like Ice Cube, slam her ass in a ditch (slam her ass)” and even rape