Ayo I'm Tired of This Misogyny: Ayo Technology Video

NY YWTF Board | August 27, 2007 - 11:52 pm

The Ayo Technology video staring 50 Cent, Justin Timberlake and Timbaland takes sexist objectification in music videos to the next level.  The video incorporates the main message of the song, "I'm tired of using technology," by showing the musicians using super high tech telescopes, binoculars and computers to stalk women. 50 Cent looks like a sniper or deer hunter on a roof, and then he is featured following a woman in her car. Timberlake is parked outside another woman's home watching her undress. Is he trying to bring stalking back too?  Their technology allows them to see through women's clothes and control their bodies from afar. In addition, the video is spliced with images of strippers and women having sex night vision style.

Glamorizing Misogyny

NY YWTF Board | March 30, 2007 - 12:51 pm

Tags: pop culture, violence against women

America's Next Top Model recently glorified violence against women.  Their crime scene victim photo shoot provides us with visions of undressed murdered female bodies.  The shoot included vivid images of women in situations such as (but not limited to)- wearing lingerie with organs stolen, almost naked in a bed (legs spread) strangled, drowned and abandoned, severely beaten and thrown down a flight of stairs, and electrocuted in underwear.  

Don't you wish your girlfriend was empowered like me?

NY YWTF Board | March 21, 2007 - 5:25 pm

With the start of the Pussy Cat Dolls new music/reality TV show "Search for the Next Doll,": this group of six women, where only one member actually sings, has gotten some criticism about how they are modeling empowerment to their female fans. They claim they are serving as role models by encouraging women to be openly expressive of sexual desire and to take control in their relationships. Indeed, the Village Voice's Tom Breihan perhaps best summarizes the "faux diva" - Veronica Mars swap CW TV has executed:

"I could also say something here about why the CW decided to replace Veronica Mars, a show about a smart and self-sufficient girl, with a reality show where a bunch of girls compete to become singing Bratz dolls, but I'm depressed enough already."