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91 Woman^s WortH (By Carmen Scott "Pass it to Nas or pass it to Naish, or pass it to Jung, or pass it to Horse, then that ass gettin' tossed . . . Grab her hair, slap her ass, she screamin' like she dyin'" - QB Finest ("Oochi Wally") From hoes to bitches, pigeons to chicken heads area codes to ethnic stereotypes, jeeps to bank accounts, women are animals and objects more often than they are women. The word ho, an abbreviation of whore, is defined by Webster's New World College Dictionary as any woman who engages in promiscuous sexual intercourse. What do you call a man who engages in promiscu ous sexual intercourse? A man. A bitch is a female dog, the primary pur pose of the animal is to serve as man's loyal companion. Among the negative connota tions of the word bitch, which again the dic tionary associates with being female, are lewd, bad-tempered, malicious and aggressive. What do you call a lewd, bad-tempered, malicious or aggressive man? A man. The words bitch and ho have become so synonymous with the word woman that regardless of whether a woman is ac u ally promiscuous, she is still called a ho, and regardless of whether a woman is bad-tempered or not, she is still called ^ event, one word, a dog, symbolizes subservience whi^ o he a whore, symbolizes immorality; both woman'^^rth. No where is this we listen to. In the song, "I'm Lopez, ]a-Rule compliments Lopez s walk, her style, he smile and claims he can t g o without her The fitk was den.ed from .he word mule because 1*= *e mule wh'ch s a sterUe hybrid spedes, mul.tu|twere thought lo be Ihe of two different spedes a„*We of Altfough tha, theory o, ^ rail somGon6 wHo is bi"r3.ci3l 3 i •. u call someone wi u woman a bitch, TfTmale"!, ,o perp"»r..e -h^ry that women are somehow “"AX". that Trln. and^.m refer to ™”2h“man. bitches d„s not InTo'ht women ization and objecti themselves is confirmation that this fnl™lShon"’o°f']*rity has seeped into the female psyche, where it will und^^^edly do the most damage. Says sexi*a se'x.sm unfamiliar to u u a crlass reiline over women in the work torce “Ini^St’ht pll ias at horn, with the ch.ldren 1, isn't the sexism of two generations ago that kept our grandmoth ers from the voting booths. It is a new breed of blatant and delib erate objectification that has found itself a cozy niche in our gen eration. Does it seem nonsensical that in Nelly's "Batter Up" video all the women are playing baseball in string bikinis while the guys sit back in the dugout fully dressed? Have you ever be% to a house party like the ones f^tured in the videos for Jagged%dge's "Where the Party At" ai% Mystikal's "Shake It "You wife Case if you cfioose to refuse to jput fierfirst. Sfie wiff fsfie can'tfmcfa man wfio ^nows fier wortfi. - ‘Aficia %ey!^ Ithere all the female are dressed for the t the males are actual- [ for a party? Does it mu that, like pieces of ibmen are assessed I to their fat content in "Fatty Girl?" If you pen who take offense to and images are overly would condescendingly ft's not that serious," consid- piack of perception may be part Ralls her a bitch Fast" attend^ beach 1 ly dresi bother! meat, accordI the SOS think these 1\ sensitive say to thj er whether of the probler Women in music^^^^^re sexual objects without a name, without a when Hype Williams determines r^^S^ra worthy from the neck down (Q-Tip's "Vivrant Thing", Jay Z's "Big Pimpin'"), they're without a face. Justifying the trend by pointing out that women flock to video sets willingly is like writing off the portrayal of blacks as oversexed, lanky and simple-minded beings by the minstrel shows of the 1930s because for every stereotypical role there was a Stepin Fetchit to play the part. "What means the world to you?" is a phrase Cam'ron made popular in 2000. Where do women place on this man's list of importance? On the hierarchy of what means the world to him, women: his mothers, sisters, daughters and lovers, are unranked. Hoes, however, come in an impressive third, just after the first run ner up, doe, not to be confused with the first place winner, money. Hoes just edge out the fourth place honoree, clothes. ^uie song "Contagious" both Ron Isley and R. Kelly take the i^g^rtunity to assert their superiority over Chante Moore, the lowly woman. While one calls her a bitch, the other talks to her like a child. The infamous line, "Shut up/ Can't you see two men are talking?" is at first listen humorous in its ridiculous implica tion that women should immediately become silent when their male counterparts are speaking. But can listeners recognize this type of dialogue as sexist or has that word been phased out of our vocabulary as if it no longer has a place there? To you 1 may be just another woman who wants to whine and complain about a few music videos. But actually. I'm just a woman who knows her worth. December 2001 14
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