Sexism and Misogyny: Who Takes the Rap? Misogyny, gangsta rap, and The Piano (Essay Sample)

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Sexism and Misogyny: Who Takes the Rap? Misogyny, gangsta rap, and The Piano
Question One
Hooks Thesis Statement: Whether major television networks or small independent radio shows, they seek me out for the black and feminist "take" on the issue. After I have my say, I am never called back, never invited to do the television shows or the radio spots. I suspect they call, confident that when we talk they will hear the hardcore "feminist" trash of gangsta rap. When they encounter instead the hardcore feminist critique of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, they lose interest.
Paraphrased version
Hook asserts that the mass media calls her to hear her views on gangsta rap. She asserts that after the interview she’s never called back. She affirms an opinion that they all anticipate her sentiments to side with hard-core “feminist” vulgar, offensive and disrespectable side of the gangsta rap music which is often not the case. They all expect her to highlight, agree with or affirm the feministic criticism that gangsta music propagates or supports.
Question Two
Hooks evidence she uses to support her argument
1 Hook points out that the main objective of tainting gangsta rap music is to paint a bad name on black youth lifestyles, and trends (“culture”) and to cover up or conceal contributions of the blacks.
2 Hook quotes a New York Times article written by Brent Staples (a reflection of the white mass media opinion towards the gangsta rap). The article points out that gangsta rap music is cluttered with women prostitutes and “bitches” and besides, it also shows black men who seek to murder their counterparts for fun. Hook asserts that Brent Staples is biased in this report since his article doesn’t seek to justify why the gangsta rap music has vast white “fans” as well.
3 Hook asserts that gangsta rap music has been painted as a go getter genre where participants seek to reap money and not paying a second thought of the violence and sexism portrayed in their music.
4 Hook affirms that gangsta rap music has been said to wallow on the wealth exploitative realm where participants can do anything to be rich.
5 Hook points out several main reason she doesn’t agree with the white media opinion on the gangsta rap music. She asserts that a reflection on the movie “Menace To Society”, which portrays black men killing others for fun has its roots on the values learnt when these blacks watched white male gangsters on television shows. She also quotes an interview she had with Ice Cube and affirms that the rapper pointed out his conviction that black women deserved respect and ought to be highly regarded at all times, and hence gangsta rap music is not as evil as it’s assumed to be.
Question Three
Conspiracy mushrooms on the aspects of sexism and misogyny in the gangsta rap music world. The affectionate and benevolent character displayed and promoted in gangsta rap is a mirror of the thriving societal values that have been propagated and mushroomed by the dominating white capitalistic genealogy. Misogynistic perspective tends to be depicted by the white culture as a male anomaly or aberration. Feministic groups have created forums purposely to examine crude assertions of male chauvinism.
To some extent, the blacks have a fading conviction to discriminate black women, as noted on Ice cubes gangster disposition that he was against women rap music and quoting that “they often portrayed themselves in the manner coherent to the way they expected to be treated”. In addition, Joan Smith affirms in her book “Misogynies” that vast individuals support the idea that women are often discriminated and subjected to gender bias but those individuals are unwilling to accept that women resentment is promoted since this sustains the male chauvinism involved.
Lastly, Hook quotes “the piano” and points out that it promotes and spreads the ideology of sexism and misogyny even though the author denies this fact.