User talk:Mylovesquared

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Hello, Mylovesquared, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Misogyny in rap music
Hi - I saw that you re-added content to the article misogyny in rap music after it was removed by. Please do not do this, as this can be seen as edit warring. I went ahead and removed the content myself, as it had some issues. The main issue was that it was written as more of an essay than an encyclopedia entry, especially as some of the content could be seen as an opinion or original research. There's also a concern about it being in the wrong section, as you placed it in the rationale section, however much of the section seems to be more of a reaction to misogyny. To be honest, I think that if you subtract the content about how modern female rappers are reacting to misogyny in rap music, some of this could belong in the section about street cred.

Before that though, I did want to discuss some of the issues. The most prevalent one was the original research/opinion, as you had some things written in absolutes. For example, you were saying that absolutely all female rappers are forced to sell their sexuality in order to get attention. That's a statement that someone could argue against by saying that some female rappers either don't use their sexuality to sell their music or they do so of their own free will without being forced. Even if taken from a source, there's still the argument that it's an opinion of one person or a specific group of people and is not the viewpoint of everyone. There's some mild redundancy and confusion in the way the sentences were written, but that may be more of a personal quirk than anything else.

Re-arranging the content somewhat, I came up with this:


 * Some critics like Lakeyta M. Bonnette have argued that some female rappers come to prominence because they are replicating a male rapper, citing performers such as Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne or Lil' Kim and Notorious B.I.G. as examples. She feels that this forces the woman to follow in the man's footsteps in order to gain mainstream success.

This is something that would be very, very good to add to the street cred section since it would build on the material that's already there and emphasize what some women have to do to get ahead. The other content is more of a reaction, so it would be better placed in the Misogyny_in_rap_music section. You could phrase this as follows:


 * Lakeyta M. Bonnette has remarked that female rappers such as Nicki Minaj and Lil' Kim emphasize their femininity and sexuality while also underlining masculine aspects. Lyrics in Minaj's “A Moment for Life” highlight the singer as a king, which Bonnette believes is Minaj's attempt to stray from the automatic association of Queen with female rappers and achieve the validation and respect that comes with the concept of kingliness.

This would get the point across and put it in less of an essay format. However I do want to state that you should make sure that you're consulting more than one source for material - it's not that Bonnette's research is bad. To the contrary, it seems very well done - it's just that one source doesn't really show a depth of coverage. (Although of course sometimes we can only fit in one source, but that's an aside. I hope this helps! Something else you may want to look at is that the article as a whole needs to be re-written to better fit Wikipedia's writing style, so you may want to work on this as well. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:47, 12 October 2017 (UTC)