Lora Strey
Composition 101-12
9 December 2014
Feminist 21st Century/Music
This article is talking about the progress of the word feminist and how it evolved throughout all the years that it went through. what some of the women had to go through if they defined themselves as a feminist or dealt with feminists. Back in the day as everyone knows women did not have the same rights as men did and were treated poorly at times. Towards the end of the article it wrapped it into how we live in a popular type culture and celebrities just associate with the word feminist because that is what's cool at that time and will just move on to something different when another cool thing pops up.
Now relating this to music, mostly rap music where women are normally treated like a piece of property and not equals. we see it as a normal way of life or a regular ol music video when women are seen dancing in the background while the male is singing in the front, just like this picture is portraying even though Miley has a successful career of her own. The article says that the real meaning of feminism doesn't exist in this day and age just like racism isn't a thing. the thing is that they both are and women today still don't get paid the same wage as a man in the exact same position. Our group talked about this topic for awhile over text and some of the girls had some pretty strong opinions on what they thought of feminism. We came to the conclusion that women still do not get treated fairly and I personally don't think that it will change for decades to come. Just like racism wont stop for decades because people don't want to give up power to anyone ever. Which is a huge problem because then nothing will end up changing and this world will get no where soon.
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