Are the men completely to blame since many Female artists go as far as to make themselves appear as nothing but sexual creatures. There are numerous female artists such as Lil' Kim, who has had song after song and numerous videos entirely about sex and provacative instances. A gathering that record company executive/singer Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin held at Johns Hopkins Shiver Hall, many students expressed their distate for the frequent and repeated portrayls of scantly dressed women in videos. His answer for this was weak but true statement was that "As a record company exec, my job is to make money. If putting half naked womein in vidoes is going to make me money, that's what I"m going to do.".
• What sort of personal values do little girls in our hip-hop nation develop when they are constantly bombarded by images of their future selves as little more than big breasted, thin waisted strippers? The image represented of most women are consistant with the afforementioned example. The women seen most often in the media are fashion models, pop stars (singers) and actresses. (We don't like the word "supermodel", "cause they really don't do anything that super.) Many women seen often in the media, especially models and increasingly actresses, are seriously underweight, and many diet and smoke to keep their natural weight off. ( A girl or woman who diets and is underweight can be undernourished, sometimes even losing her menstrual period. Prolonged loss of periods can lead to fertility problems---while constant or extreme dieting also carries health risks and can actually lead to longterm weight gain.) (Body Wars, by Margo Maine, 2000) 70% of girls say they have wanted to look like a character on television. About 30% have actually changed their appearance or gone on a diet in order to be more like a television character.
• In a 1992 study of female students at Stanford University, 70% of women reported feeling worse about themselves and their bodies after looking at magazines.
