Women in Pop Culture

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is very contrasting even though focusing on the same gender.

Viewers of music videos are being taught gender roles through the images being broadcasted to them. When viewers of B.E.T watch a music video by a popular artist not only might the lyrical content be disrespectful to women, but it goes further and depicts women a majority of the time negatively. Women are consistently shown in sexually explicit forms as if to signify this is the only role they can have. Girls are often depicted in pools wearing bikinis, they are shown in short shorts, yoga pants to heighten their shape, tank tops with extreme cleavage or at times naked but censored. The female reaction to this content though is often the total opposite of a male viewpoint. Women view these videos as a guideline to being the ideal woman for a man. Image is the first thing that is imprinted into the brains of the girls watching these videos. A girl will see a half naked, voluptuous female on television next to their ...

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being voluptuous or having a big butt, they prefer being fit and thin. The extent of emulation white females' display in regards to women depicted in pop culture is generally fashion based. An to further the racial differences between women on a more white background music channel like (MTV), women are usually the leading characters in videos and also hold important roles off screen. Women like Jessica Simpson, the Kardashians, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears all have companies which bring in high profits. It seems white women use their celebrity positions to attain higher places in life whereas the majority of black women do not. There are a few names of African women who have made ...

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