Women as Servants in the Media
As a nation, America is regressing in terms of how females are viewed in our society. Females are being portrayed, and expected to behave, as servants. My research question will run along the lines of how American popular culture promotes this servitude among women. For the purpose of this project I will use the music industry, television, and magazines to represent the popular culture. I will focus on these three main facets of American popular culture in order to prove my theory that popular culture does indeed endorse servitude among its female audience. One way in which my statement that pop culture endorses servitude can be supported is by the general theory of control. By glamorizing the idea of being controlled, pop culture is able to convince females that what they desire more than anything is to please men. The music industry, television, and magazines alike do this by showing the perks of serving men. Some perks advertised are the material goods (i.e. clothes, jewelry, and alcohol), while other focus more on emotional advantages (i.e. sense of security). Another marketing tool for being a servant is the common idea, in this patriarchal society, that men hold inclusive rights to females; and why shouldn't they be? “
Men have seen girls' bodies in numerous sexy and emotionless displays, in everything from movies to television to advertising…they are as inanimate as mountains and exist only to be conquered.” (Asher). Evidence supporting my topic can be found in nearly any song and/or music video from the Top Ten lists, on television stations such as MTV, Comedy Central, and Cartoon Network: Adult Swim (to name a few), and in any widely subscribed to/read magazine. In all three categories females are instructed on how to dress, behave, what to say, etc. in order to maintain a set level of happiness for the man they are with. “In popular music, we find teenage girls continually marketed as highly sexualized beings, ready to cater to the whims of men.” Popular music includes, but is not limited to, songs such as Custom’s Hey Mister. Throughout this song the singer goes into detail how he would sexually use a girl. The singer goes as far as to say that the girl will be calling him dad, and that when he is finished with her “she’ll do one of my bros”. Hey Mister is just one song that places females in the category of property, property that is shared among all males. As far as television goes, where do I begin? Show such as the man show immortalize men who are willing to say, during a national broadcast, that they
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