Objectification Of Women Analysis

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The song that I think conveys a message of objectification of women is the song Stupid Ass B**** by China featuring Too Short. I personally do not listen to music like this so it was hard to look for a song. Although I knew it wouldn’t be too difficult because in today’s generation most song created are all about women, sex, drugs, and violence. The reason I choose this song is because with just the title of the song I knew that it was talking about a women and the disrespect started with just the name of the song by calling her stupid and a b****. All throughout this song we see these rappers refer to this women as a b****, a hoe, and a skank. In this song like many others rappers and artist tend to objectify women as sex objects and don’t show respect towards them. They immediately assume that women ask for this kind of treatment. This song starts off my saying that this girl better act right and that girls …show more content…
As I mentioned earlier they automatically think that a girl’s actions and physical appearances send a message of sexual acts although this is not true, men just like to think this. The explicit message these lyrics is sending are very obvious. The way Too Short and China talk about this woman shows no shame in disrespecting her by calling her names and by referring to her as a sexual object. They also say things that refer to women wanting sex so they encourage men to give it to them. The way they refer to sex is referred to as rough sex which I don’t agree with. I personally don’t think it should be that way. The act of sex is something special and intimate for many women so the fact that many men are receiving a different message from these songs is a shame. Towards the end they use this line “Call me when you want some dick, bitch” which again sends a wrong message to all the people listening to this

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