Got a new CD out - then we forgive you!!

Michelle,

While you are so right about the misogyny in music and video, here is my thing:  people can only treat you / do to you how you allow them to..in personal relationships AND in an industry as massive as the music business.

My feeling is that if enough people (women AND men) make a stink about it and stop supporting that stuff, you may see it slow down if now cease.  Part of it comes from how we are taught to deal with the opposite sex (as guys--as opposed to MEN) and how some girls (as opposed to WOMEN) see themselves. 

I think we need to teach our children to value themselves as well as the opposite gender.  For example, I always tell my daughter NOT to deal with any man who doesn't treat you AT LEAST as grand as your dad does.  Never let your self be disrespected by a man and, above all, know your self worth. 

Oh I agree with you 100% . Personally I don't support artists that call women *****es and Ho's, but too many people think its just music.

So I do my part, but for example I'm not spending my money on it, but my younger brother and sister do because its danceable.

Also a lot of people don't like the idea of censorship of the creative process.  Personally I don't find it creative, just insulting.

I don't know...

I see it as a fine line sometimes because for example sistas will swear that they hate this kind of music but then when artist like Lil Kim, Foxy Brown, or Jackii O come along sistas flip it and be like, "They are liberating and empowering women everywhere..."

Sorry, I'm not buying it. That's like saying strippers and hookers are empowering themselves by taking hold of their sexuality.

Michelle,

You got to admit that it has changed drastically though....

I mean look at lot of this songs now adays which is becoming the trend....

She Got Her Own
Independent

and those are just two of the many that are seeming to put women on a pedastal and showing alot of love for them now a days.

Oh I agree there are some artists out there that are respectful of womankind and those are the people who get  my $.

I hear y'all but how many songs can there be about a woman's genitalia that a woman is willing to sing/rap in order to try and show that she's speaking for women everywhere as she may put it?  Does an artist who sings/raps about a woman's body necessarily make him a bad guy?

nope not necessarily.  But there are those songs sung in appreciation of the beauty of women and then there are those that are just downright vulgar.  Its easy to see the difference between the two.

Absolutely. 

I can't stand listening to today's music that objectify and degrade women.  I mean singers sang about sex but called it love since the 1960's but I don't think any mainstream artists back in the day (with the exception of Millie Jackson) who sang about "a bomb-azzed clitoris" or a "fatty" (vagina). 

Some folks just take sh*t too far.

Who woulda thunk we'd find something to agree on?  Will wonders never cease?