Music_&_Sexuality

Music & Sexuality Rock and Sexuality 24, 34, 46, good and thick, and once you get it she’ll work wit it. Put a face and some cute lips, earring and a tongue and she’ll know what to do wit it / Make a name for herself, and she do her shit well, and know how to keep her business to herself / Come over anytime a nigga call chick, 1 o’clock, 2 o’clock, ding dong, and she right there / And she know why she came here and she know where her clothes suppose to be (off and over there) (Petey Pablo, “Freek-A-Leek”, lines 1-5) And so the story goes - Sexism in popular music is alive and well! Simon Firth contends “punks opened the possibility that rock could be against sexism” (83), but he apparently gave that genre too much credit. Popular music, as a form of expression, has only gotten worse in its objectification of women. The most overused definition of sexism is “discrimination based on gender, especially discrimination against women”, but the most blatant forms of sexism are really comprised of “attitudes, conditions, or behaviors that promote stereotyping of social roles based on gender” (“Sexism”). Sexism has long music, sexism, women, popular, just, rap, lyrics, know, i’m, today, thought, slave, she’s, sex, rock, much, majority, herself, form, come, artists, against, worse, world, woodstock, wit, very, under, told, today’s, thumb, takes, take