Tuesday 1 October 2013

Homework 300-400 words thing.

I do not agree with the statements made by hip hop saying that if you do not have a load of money and girls you are not a real man or soft. This is because if you do not have these things for a certain reason this will make you soft and not a man when you quite clearly are. These hip hop videos are imposing a false ideal for people to become which are sometimes not the best things to become e.g. a person who has loads of lady friends and loads of money which might not be legitimately owned.

This is a unhealthy form of masculinity which is created for people to become and to idolise but it knocks the people who are not this by saying that that they are the opposite which is bad because variety and difference is good in the world. Otherwise we'd all be gangsters in a candy shop!

Hip hop representation of men also presents a lot of hyper masculinity which is basically an exaggeration of masculinity. Okay every man will have money and some men will have loads of money and even some men will have no money because of whatever situation. But if a man has lost all his money because he has been framed in a crime (extreme example I know), this man is innocent, he is now a wimp and not a real man because of horrible misfortune. Or if someone has something wrong externally on their body and can not get girlfriends because of this and is not a real man consequently this is unfair.it is tarnishing people with the same brush.

So no I do not agree with the views of masculinity in hip hop because they are somewhat elitist and they offer false ideals and role models.


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