This week I watched a few different music videos about the progression of women’s rights and movements in the media. The first video by Gore showed a very conservative appearance in the music video and her lyrics were about how she was crying over a boy. I feel that this shows her ruining her own party for a man and I also think it is very submissive to the man. The lyrics were also very clean. At the time, women were still being told that they should always try to please their man and work as housewives and it was not until the late sixties when feminist movements really started to take hold of the women of America. As time moved on with more women’s movements during the seventies and eighties, women such as Fiona Apple gave women a new approach to fighting for their independence. The video provided and hinted at sex and at the time was unusual and shocking for a woman to do. I think with the creation of MTV in the eighties it generated a whole new way women could express themselves. The article mentions one of Madonna’s videos and its sexual content and this made it more accessible to the public hence making it more popular. Lastly, Lil’Kim’s video is very vulgar and contains almost all sexual content, this is groundbreaking in a way that it can be put on national television and the internet for it all to be heard, whereas fifteen or twenty years ago this would have been very obscene and unheard of. Lil’Kim’s video also shows her domination over males when it comes to being pleasured in bed. Lil’Kim reverses the roles of what happens in the bedroom.
The roles about love and relationships in regards to men and women have constantly been changing. As I stated early women have become more dominant and aggressive with their sexuality. Women are no longer afraid to talk about sex or not get married. Especially when it comes to sex, women are much more open about sex and the pleasure they want to receive from it. Also, to go along with that women feel that they can dress more openly and sexual while out in public or at a job. Some women think that they can dress like that and it gives them more power to prove that they can do whatever they want and do not have to feel hidden by a man. On the flip side I think also that when popular women’s culture dresses more seductively and is more open about sex they are also giving in to the male domination. Dressing that way might also please the coworkers, for an example, and they might just look at the woman as though she is just a sex object.
In relations to school and education there is a fine line between dressing to show independence and just looking trashy. From what I have observed in the classrooms I have been at I have noticed younger and younger dressing to show more skin. I personally do not feel that this is part of the feminist movement and I also think as an educator it will be hard to tell students what is appropriate and what is not. The role of sex education has always been and will continue to be a huge issue in public school system. Back in the sixties it was never quite a big issue as it is today. The keys I feel is how do and should educators react to the growing popular culture of sex. With all the new technology it is much easier for young kids to get their hands on something related to sex and should we as a culture accept this or should we try to stop it. How should be discuss these issues in the classroom?
There is a difference with Lil’Kim’s video which I feel a lot of young and old people would find distasteful and other powerful women figures like Hillary Clinton.
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