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Dance Music: Sexist?
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| preppie chick |
Studying for my Linguistics exam- Language and Gender, I came across an interesting article...
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Dance music labelled "sexist"
STOCKWELL, LONDON:
Feminist Groups made a call to Government and the Recording Industry this morning asking for a total ban on all house music.
Linda Smith from the Stockwell Refuse and Resist Women's Empowerment league claimed house and dance music was derogatory, sexist in nature and offensive to Women.
"Dance music today is nothing more than a cheap compilation of gross misogyny, antigay vitriol, and continuous violence against women," she said. "And we cannot allow this kind of hatespeech to continue unabated."
Speaking at this mornings League of Women "Stop! The Sexploitation" Solidarity forum, Smith made a defiant call to end the sexist samples and disrespectful titles she claimed were prevalent throughout the dance music scene.
"The dance hit '9pm till I come'-is that not simply a double-entendre reference to the sexual needs of men, and clearly serving as little less than a cheap innuendo for the male orgasm?" she asked. "Or Signum's 'What you got for me" whose very title reinforces the view of women as subservient?"
Continued Smith: "When you listen to songs such as Da Hool's 'Met her at the love parade' instrumental, they are simply reinforcing the dominant and ultraconservative values of the establishment when the synthesizer hums about hating women."
Smith went on to make an impassioned plea to the taskforce members and women everywhere to boycott all forms of house and dance music, a genre she claimed only served to objectify women as sexual victims.
The group is not alone in their views. In a recent interview in "Femina" magazine, the long-standing hard-core feminist and Lesbian Rights campaigner Debra Collins suggested the very core of dance music was anti-women, anti-gender, anti-empowerment, and anti-gay.
"The beats and samples that constitute the heart of dance music are inherently misogynistic," she claimed. "As a musical genre 'Banging House' does nothing less than promote violence against women in the home. On a wider scope it all points to women as domestic subserviants- the term House itself is nothing more than a nasty masquerade for Kitchen as far as I'm concerned, and do you really think the "Hoover" samples used universally in hard house are a co-incidence? And even the basic recorded format is typical of the male obsessed domain- the music is all recorded onto '12 inch' vinyl. Surprise surprise."
"One thing is for certain however," she concluded. "When those sexist hatemongers Push released 'Universal Nation' they weren't referring to the kind of Universal Nation that included a gendered or lesbian perspective, that's for sure."
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From what i learned, Smith's argument is somewhat correct, dance music can be quite sexist, but that doesn't mean it has to be banned... However I disagree that in any way it promotes violence against women... I need to hear what Prof. King has to say about this... lol
Let's see what everyone else thinks! |
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| ZeroVII |
| Maybe it's because I've been around the stuff for so long, but I don't find it misogynistic @ all. |
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| bARTovsky |
I really don't think a few sexually inclined (even deviant) lyrics can make an entire genre of music sexist.
If that is the case then before even considering dance music they should maybe take a look at today's Hip Hop :rolleyes:
edit: actually hip hop is more objectifying than anything, but I still think it beats dance music hollow in the sexist category. |
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| ShadoWolf |
house music anti-gay? :stongue: :stongue:
edit: you do realize that that article is a satirical piece right? |
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| Ub3rTrancer |
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suggested the very core of dance music was anti-women, anti-gender, anti-empowerment, and anti-gay.
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I completly disagree with the lady |
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| bARTovsky |
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suggested the very core of dance music was anti-women, anti-gender, anti-empowerment, and anti-gay.
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And dance music is also in fact... anti-dance.
:p |
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| e*motion |
wow.. what a ****.. and the 1 person who voted yes should be shot in the head.
I wish death upon these feminist freaks. |
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| ShadoWolf |
| quote: | Originally posted by e*motion
wow.. what a ****.. and the 1 person who voted yes should be shot in the head.
I wish death upon these feminist freaks. |
chill dude, it's a piss take :tongue3 |
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| e*motion |
| quote: | Originally posted by ShadoWolf
chill dude, it's a piss take :tongue3 |
lol i hope so..
all I read was
| quote: | | Feminist Groups made a call to Government and the Recording Industry this morning asking for a total ban on all house music. |
and that popped my top. :D
:tongue3 |
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| bARTovsky |
| quote: | Originally posted by ShadoWolf
edit: you do realize that that article is a satirical piece right? |
how can u tell? |
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| preppie chick |
| quote: | Originally posted by e*motion
wow.. what a ****.. and the 1 person who voted yes should be shot in the head.
I wish death upon these feminist freaks. |
there's no need for that kinda comment! Every one is entitled to have an opinion, dood! If someone fully agrees with this that's their right... no need to say they should be shot in the head! :rolleyes:
I agree that the her arguments in the article are extreme, but hey some people think like that, and there's nothing you and I can do about it! |
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| e*motion |
| quote: | Originally posted by preppie chick
I agree that the her arguments in the article are extreme, but hey some people think like that, and there's nothing you and I can do about it! |
you can shoot them in the head. ;)
i kid i kid.. yea I usually make extreme comments, but they always come out bad over the internet.. if you actually HEARD me say it with my silly grin it wouldnt be as offensive.
i'll chillax |
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