Sunday, February 23, 2020

Monster Misogyny?

Kanye West's Monster Misogyny
In feminist Frequency video she talks about Kanye West's new music video Monster. Instantly she says how she wishes no one should ever see this video and that she shouldn't have watched it herself. She believes the video is based around this whole sexy dead women trope. The video features women who look "dead" but are wearing heels and full makeup. She also believes that he has portrayed white women to look eroticized, mutilated, and dead while black women are supposed to look animalistic, savage, and demon. She discusses how artists use these techniques to spark controversy among people to get views.
I personally do not agree with her thought process of the video and I believe it is blown out of proportion. The video itself is called monster so I would expect it to entail characteristics of monster like creatures. Throughout her video she brings up a definition of women saying that they are full and complete human beings. As well as the topic of Misogyny which is the hatred for females simply because they are female. No where in the video do I see him hating females simply because they are female. The song even includes a verse from a female so It would be very hypocritical of him to hate women but also feature one on his song. She ends the video saying that if he really wanted to take the scene by storm He should treat women like humans, that'll shock em. But that isn't what the video was about it was about Monster like characters, so why call the song monster and portray everyone normally, doesn't make sense to me.
After watching her video it only made me realize how people tend to blow things out of proportion showing no evidence for claims. The thing that shocked me the most was her claim that he only portrayed white women to look eroticized while the black women were made to look animalistic. But when I watched the video it showed both white and black women portraying each of these things. In one clip it shows a white female dragging away a dead male, but of course she failed to mention that in her video.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Nate great blog I agree with your opinion the video was completely blown out of proportion and should not have got to the point in which it did.

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