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The Exploration of Women in Mass Media- Portrayed in Music Videos

Women have been targeted in music videos a lot throughout time. Studies were done to see the correlation between watching sexual music videos and people's attitudes following those actions. Many actions have been taken after watching these types of explicit videos. The more the videos were observed, the more the attitudes got worse.

Males and females of the white race were exposed to different videos of black female artists. These videos were for music videos that were either love or rap. They were described as exciting them. They went through a whole experiment for this certain test. This experiment was on black and white women in the media. There were different images projected on the slides. Each slide had a different woman on it. They did a pre-test without music and the images and or videos. There is an effect on people when there is added music or videos. There was more of an effect when there were black women on the screen than white women on the screen. There were not any good evaluations of women when there was explicit music but there were no comments when there was a white woman on the screen. There were no good observations of black women when there were specific sexual images on the screen.

Women's Media Center says that people fantasize about black women's bodies in music videos. This will eventually hypersexualize women in the day-to-day world. They have many stereotypes about black women—most of the time it's never white women it's always black women that are sexualized. Most of the music videos are of black women. The stereotype of women being inappropriate should not be what every woman is labeled as. Not every woman should be stereotypicalized as that. The white artist has their backup dancers as black people and is always making them do the things that every black woman quote on a quote does. Black women are usually only used to benefit white women's videos and music.

Black women should not be targeted during music videos and things like it. They should not be sexualized just because of their gender. They definitely should not be sexualized for their race. You see more and more of this day by day and it is just giving a bad wrap on women of color. They should not be discriminated against or looked at differently just because of their race. There definitely needs to be more of a mix of the races when it comes to music videos. Black women should not be the only ones that are getting hated, for how they act in a music video. It would be the same if they had a white woman doing the same thing. Black women should not have to be the ones to make the video more explicit. It should be equal across the board. Women shouldn't have to be used for anything, not even a music video. People should be able to make music videos without having to use black women to spice it up.

(Zhang, Y., Miller, L.E., & Harrison, K. (2008). The Relationship Between Exposure to Sexual Music Videos and Young Adults' Sexual Attitudes. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 52, 368 - 386.)

Gan, Su-Lin; Zillmann, Dolf; Mitrook, Michael (September 1997). "Stereotyping effect of black women's sexual rap on white audiences". Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 19 (3): 381–399. doi:10.1207/s15324834basp1903_7

The Exploitation Of Women Of Color In Music Videos Needs To End - Women’s Media Center. (n.d.). Retrieved October 17, 2022, from https://womensmediacenter.com/fbomb/the-exploitation-of-women-in-color-in-music-videos-needs-to-end

Paraphrase Sentence:

Having more exposure to music videos that are explicit, gears the listener ad watcher to a more open-minded opinion of sexual activities, not focused on your age or gender, just the view of television and experiences that you may have had in the past.

Quoting Sentence:

"As expected, exposure to more sexually explicit music videos was associated with more permissive attitudes toward premarital sex and stronger endorsement of the sexual double standard, regardless of gender, overall television viewing, and previous sexual experience."