Did you know that majority of the Hip Hop industry music sales come from the White community? Wow! I did not know that! The video we watched in class was really interesting because it talked about music that the class basically listens to everyday. In this music there are lyrics and videos that display masculine identity that men display inside as well as outside the industry. There is a lot of cursing and violence in these industries and personally I think this displays and insecurity of these men. Like where did all of this originate? Why does violence attract so many people? It’s like when rappers rap about violence and talking bad about girls the listeners of this music get so attached to it and try to make their life into this fantasy portrayed. I have to be honest though. I listen to this music a good bit, but I just really enjoy the beats rather than the lyrics. I just think it Is important to not get attached to these lyrics because all of it is FAKE in my eyes.
Some words I learned … Homo irodism- An example of this would be LL Cool J with his shirt off, sagging pants, and tattoos.
Also the phrase Bitch ass niggas feminizes men
I thought this video was really nice to watch and I loved the comments the class shared throughout the video.
-Buttercup/Breanna Cousin
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Boys and Sexual Harassment
I know that I am suppose to blog about the other chapters that I have read, but this subject and boys and sexual harassment rose in interest in me. When I looked through my notes this weekend I saw this subject and really wanted to discuus this. In my school as well as the schools where the author interviewed there were this activity of boys touching and talking to girls innapropriately. Most of these incidents occur between the friendships of these boys and girls. Most of these boys just like to play around too much and it gets out of hand at times. I just think the boys need to keep their hands and comments to themselves. This action will reduce a lot of confusion between the girls and boys and the conflict will be settled.
That was just a random blog I felt like talking about !
-Buttercup/Breanna Cousin
That was just a random blog I felt like talking about !
-Buttercup/Breanna Cousin
Women and Music Videos
As we all know women are hardly NEVER fully dressed when it comes down to making music video for "POPULAR" men. Thinking it's going to get them money & some just because they think it's cute. In most videos womens bodies are used to draw attention to or advertise more. Female bodies are used to simply achieve a goal that men has set for themselves. One thing about men is that they don't want any "Thick" females doing work for them , she must be a certain size in order to fit the job correctly. A question was asked in class: Would you starve yourself or do whatever it takes just to impress a man or whomever? Majority of us answered no! Another thing we talked about in class was: How are kids in the city represented in the nighty news? Most of the time teens are either seen on the news because a shooting happened, kidnapped/missing or something like that. Very seldom when you see anything good like a child won the lottery. I mean c'mon can't they reconize us for doing something good, instead of negative news all the time? The women in the music videos compare to children on the nightly news because with both something negavtive is getting reconized. Women should repect themselves more and maybe men will too & teens with all this killing should also stop. (blossom)Brishawn Perkins
Thursday, November 10, 2011
PLAYING TOO MUCH
IT WAS A GIRL WALKING DOWN THE STREET SHE HAD SOME LITTLE SHORTS ON AND A LITTLE TOP AND AT FIRST THE GUY TRY TO TALK TO HER AND SHE DID NOT WANT TO TALK TO HIM.SO HE TOUCHED HER AND SHE TOLD HIM NOT TO PUT HIS HANDS ON HER NO MORE OR SHE GONNA GO GET HER BIG BROTHER.HE DONE SLAPPED THIS GIRL. SO SHE WANT TO GONNA GO GET HER BIG BROTHER AND STUFF.THATS HOW STUFF BE GETTING STARTED.THATS HOW PEOPLE BE GETTING KILLED PUTTING THEY HANDS ON PEOPLE THEY DONT EVEN KNOW.
MY BROTHER BE THIS LIKED THIS TO BE.
MY BROTHER BE THIS LIKED THIS TO BE.
getting played
the reason for this neglect are manifold.mainstream criminology has long been criticized for its insufficient attention to both women and gender androcentric perspectives continue to guide much criminological research and theorizing leading to both an exclusive or implicit focus on mean and boys and a failure to seek explanations for crime and victimization that take gender seriously as a struction interactional and symbolic source of inequality.
Chapter 2 - Gender n' the 'hood
In class this week we talked about Chapter 2 and gave our opinions on it. One topic that sparked controversy in the class was this question: Who fault is it when it comes to rape? Is it the Females or the Males? Under which conditions do this happen?
Majority of the class could not agree with one specific gender in which these things occur. I say it's half and half. The boys are the ones who feel like they have to show off in front off their friends and approach a young lady any way they please. But what is attracting these young men? I have to say it is the young ladies and the way they present themselves. Presentation is the way you dress, speak, and carry yourself in public. Girls these days want attention and therefore they wear short and tight clothes. Then they get mad when a boy approach them the wrong way. If you want respect, look like you want respect.
I have to say it's not always the young people's fault. They are taught by their environment and what they see. When they were younger they probably saw older girls dressing the way they do now and that is what they desire. On the other hand with the young men they don't have a lot of men who respect ladies and if they are men like this the action of being respectable is not exhibited around these young men. How can we blame these young people when the adults are not during their job? The most important question is how can we fix this problem?
My final opinion on this topic is that it is the adults, young ladies and the young men fault that this problem is occurring. The adults should lead by example! But The young ladies and the young men have to pick up their own slack and become better role models for the upcoming generation. The young ladies need to learn how to present themselves in the world and the young men need to learn how to approach a young lady.
-Buttercup/Breanna Cousin
Majority of the class could not agree with one specific gender in which these things occur. I say it's half and half. The boys are the ones who feel like they have to show off in front off their friends and approach a young lady any way they please. But what is attracting these young men? I have to say it is the young ladies and the way they present themselves. Presentation is the way you dress, speak, and carry yourself in public. Girls these days want attention and therefore they wear short and tight clothes. Then they get mad when a boy approach them the wrong way. If you want respect, look like you want respect.
I have to say it's not always the young people's fault. They are taught by their environment and what they see. When they were younger they probably saw older girls dressing the way they do now and that is what they desire. On the other hand with the young men they don't have a lot of men who respect ladies and if they are men like this the action of being respectable is not exhibited around these young men. How can we blame these young people when the adults are not during their job? The most important question is how can we fix this problem?
My final opinion on this topic is that it is the adults, young ladies and the young men fault that this problem is occurring. The adults should lead by example! But The young ladies and the young men have to pick up their own slack and become better role models for the upcoming generation. The young ladies need to learn how to present themselves in the world and the young men need to learn how to approach a young lady.
-Buttercup/Breanna Cousin
Sunday, November 6, 2011
My Relations to the Hood!
One particular section in this chapter stood out to me, and that section was titled Living in the 'Hood. This particular section stood out to me because being a native New Orleanean you can relate to the problems that each of these interviewers experienced in their neighborhoods. Reading this broke my heart as she described how the sreets looked as she walked them daily and I can relate to seeing broken bottles and paper flowing down the sreets of Frenchmen and Claiborne.
Being a citizen of New Orleans you experience things that you definitely should not be experiencing, such as the dead bodies that you find lying in the middle of the streets after a shoot out has taken place. It seems as though Cleshay has a lot of knowledge relating to the streets but she regrets what goes on in them. I found that she spoke honestly and released he frustration during her interview. She spoke of a little girl being raped and questioned how can you not hear her screams? That is a real question, how can you not hear the screams of a baby girl? Its not the fact that they didnt hear them they refused to hear them. I can recall a little girl being dragged into an abandoned house and raped just about three years ago as well right here in my home town. I find that it is sad that our communties are like this. A community is suppose to act as one and now a days we dont fight as one we decide to fight one another.
I think we all can relate to this chapter because it is based upon facts and not thoughts. We can also relate the harrassment and neglect of the police officers in our city. I can especially relate to this situation because i actually know someone personal who was harrassed for walking up the street and was told he looked like a nigga that had just robbed someone, all because he was a black male.
I can also recall watching a video in 4th period about caucasians moving into the suburbs due to the violence that was coming into their communties and it seems as though our race was doing the same exact thing in the hood. I say this because Cleshay mentioned that they did not know hoe to take care of their houses and they then decided to move into another and took care of that one with the same treatment which provides our community with an enormous amount of abandoned houses. More house that you have to chech for dead bodies and drugs, This is pathetic. People keep these tragegies alive in the streets and teaching our youth the wrong thing in life we need to make a change but we cant do it alone and it wont just happen over night.
-Bubbles/ Jen'Brica Harris<3
Being a citizen of New Orleans you experience things that you definitely should not be experiencing, such as the dead bodies that you find lying in the middle of the streets after a shoot out has taken place. It seems as though Cleshay has a lot of knowledge relating to the streets but she regrets what goes on in them. I found that she spoke honestly and released he frustration during her interview. She spoke of a little girl being raped and questioned how can you not hear her screams? That is a real question, how can you not hear the screams of a baby girl? Its not the fact that they didnt hear them they refused to hear them. I can recall a little girl being dragged into an abandoned house and raped just about three years ago as well right here in my home town. I find that it is sad that our communties are like this. A community is suppose to act as one and now a days we dont fight as one we decide to fight one another.
I think we all can relate to this chapter because it is based upon facts and not thoughts. We can also relate the harrassment and neglect of the police officers in our city. I can especially relate to this situation because i actually know someone personal who was harrassed for walking up the street and was told he looked like a nigga that had just robbed someone, all because he was a black male.
I can also recall watching a video in 4th period about caucasians moving into the suburbs due to the violence that was coming into their communties and it seems as though our race was doing the same exact thing in the hood. I say this because Cleshay mentioned that they did not know hoe to take care of their houses and they then decided to move into another and took care of that one with the same treatment which provides our community with an enormous amount of abandoned houses. More house that you have to chech for dead bodies and drugs, This is pathetic. People keep these tragegies alive in the streets and teaching our youth the wrong thing in life we need to make a change but we cant do it alone and it wont just happen over night.
-Bubbles/ Jen'Brica Harris<3
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