Is Hip Hop Promoting Demasculinizing The black Male?

[rip.dilla]

Ok how about the rappers who are predominantly Black rock traditional African garb alongside the spear in the right hand on stage?

 

[Ear2DaSt]

forget wearing a dress.

 

[5 Grand]

Part of the problem is that Hip Hop has created a standard of being this super tough guy that never takes an L and gets all the girls. Hip Hop has brainwashed us into thinking we have to be alpha males, super males. Some people, especially those that didn't have a father figure or a positive male role model growing up don't know what it means to be an alpha male, or never had the genes to be an alpha male in the first place.

According to the rules of hip hop, if somebody disses you, you have to diss em back. You have to carry a gun in case anybody messes with you, you have to have a lot of tattoos and look like a tough guy. Its those images that we fall victim to and for those of us that are unlucky enough to be born in the hood, that ideology leads strait to prison.

It seems like its one extreme or the other, you either have to be Mr tough guy and if you're not Mr tough guy then you must be a faggot.

 

[bck145]

watch this: do you listen to kanye? yes? then your contributing to female type dudes...drake? yes? same thing, big sean? yes? ......

but it's not just hip hop, it's america, black, white, asian, hispanic....you name it, kids get participation trophies now, parents get looked down on for punishing their children in the wrong way, hell i believe college athletic coaches get in trouble for smacking a kid on the back of the head for being an idiot....america is just soft anymore

 

[Like Water]

Part of the problem is that Hip Hop has created a standard of being this super tough guy that never takes an L and gets all the girls. Hip Hop has brainwashed us into thinking we have to be alpha males, super males. Some people, especially those that didn't have a father figure or a positive male role model growing up don't know what it means to be an alpha male, or never had the genes to be an alpha male in the first place.

According to the rules of hip hop, if somebody disses you, you have to diss em back. You have to carry a gun in case anybody messes with you, you have to have a lot of tattoos and look like a tough guy. Its those images that we fall victim to and for those of us that are unlucky enough to be born in the hood, that ideology leads strait to prison.

It seems like its one extreme or the other, you either have to be Mr tough guy and if you're not Mr tough guy then you must be a faggot.

Common, Lupe, Curren$y, and Krit are a few cats off the top of my head that somewhat disprove that theory.

 

[kontakz.]

say round who is these corny niggas always worried about another man masculinity? not masculine

 

[stringer bell]

This is what happens when certain Stan's given their favorite rapper passes.. for kissing another man on lips.. and then making excuses like "oh that's his son".. or when their favorite rapper runs around female clothes.. niggas be like "oh just trying be different" "fuck that he makes good music.. That's what it she be all about.. Smh.. All that type of shit makes it comfortable for this Young "Thug" type of cats to feel okay getting into the hip hop game.. Next we're going to have homos trying ride that Jason Collins/Micheal Sam media hype wave.. and poison hip hop with that full blown sugar tank music.. It's going to be like Aubrey/Drake type music but even gayer.. And It's all because how bitchmade certain niggas have gotten...

 

[Listencloser]

Part of the problem is that Hip Hop has created a standard of being this super tough guy that never takes an L and gets all the girls. Hip Hop has brainwashed us into thinking we have to be alpha males, super males. Some people, especially those that didn't have a father figure or a positive male role model growing up don't know what it means to be an alpha male, or never had the genes to be an alpha male in the first place.

According to the rules of hip hop, if somebody disses you, you have to diss em back. You have to carry a gun in case anybody messes with you, you have to have a lot of tattoos and look like a tough guy. Its those images that we fall victim to and for those of us that are unlucky enough to be born in the hood, that ideology leads strait to prison.

It seems like its one extreme or the other, you either have to be Mr tough guy and if you're not Mr tough guy then you must be a faggot.

I labeled boring, i.e. Lupe Fiasco/J-Cole.

 

[Ear2DaSt]

 

[soul rattler]

Niggas emasculate themselves.

Also, demasculizing isn't a word.

http://i.word.com/imedical/demasculinize

Main Entry: de·mas·cu·lin·ize

Variant(s): also British de·mas·cu·lin·ise \(ˌ)dē-ˈmas-kyə-lə-ˌnīz, di-\

Function: transitive verb

Inflected Form(s): de·mas·cu·lin·ized also British de·mas·cu·lin·ised; de·mas·cu·lin·iz·ing also British de·mas·cu·lin·is·ing

: to remove the masculine character or qualities of

—de·mas·cu·lin·iza·tion also British de·mas·cu·lin·isa·tion \-ˌmas-kyə-lə-nə-ˈzā-shən,

British my ass. This is Amurrica

The definition shows the British English spelling as well as the American English spelling.

Demasculinize=Demasculinise

Murrica

 

[zombie]

hip-hop promotes a false masculinity, a undeveloped half manhood half boyhood way of living.

and even the semi-manhood of hip-hop today is being made more feminine

 

[The_Man]

Depends what kind of hip hop you listen to, im white so it makes me feel very manly i am demasculinizing proof

 

[32DaysOfInfiniti]

Ever since woman were treated like objects and not the mothers of our children the process began. Being a man has everything to do with respecting your mate and being confident in each others role in the family

Dudes these days fear responsibility and commitment of any form yet are down to destroy there own lives and future in the act of "keeping it real" with the homies, or "ridin for they niggaz"...

The skirts, nail polish and "no homo" rhetoric are not the symptoms of problem yet to be diagnosed, they are merely the affects of a known illness gone untreated

And to answer your question, no, America as a whole promotes demasculization, not just hip hop

 

[LUClEN]

Western media seems to be doing it.

 

[freethewave]

Ever since woman were treated like objects and not the mothers of our children the process began. Being a man has everything to do with respecting your mate and being confident in each others role in the family

Dudes these days fear responsibility and commitment of any form yet are down to destroy there own lives and future in the act of "keeping it real" with the homies, or "ridin for they niggaz"...

The skirts, nail polish and "no homo" rhetoric are not the symptoms of problem yet to be diagnosed, they are merely the affects of a known illness gone untreated

And to answer your question, no, America as a whole promotes demasculization, not just hip hop

Putting a cartoon character in a dress for comic effect has nothing to do with an idea that America is consciously demasculating its citizens.fohwts

 

[The Lonious Monk]

The skirt wearing needs to GO

Whomever rocks that shit

So, anyone want to ask this type of dude, "Take off your fur print tank top and skirt, you look like a bitch fucking up the culture!"?

Wearing a skirt doesn't make you a bitch. Acting like a bitch makes you a bitch. He can be gay, tranvestite, whatever, that's his business but I just feel like this is some cheap publicity shit people pull to get a buzz now. Ellen Page came out as gay, all thse new draft picks are coming out as gay... just gives them more column inches to fill selling stories and giving out soundbites.

I feel like you can be cool talking about how you're living and put your feelings out there without having to talk about your private or sex life. Keep your personal and private business that way, I don't need to know if the person who designed my shoes sucks dick, eats cooch or does both. Considering fashion, acting and the arts have long been the place for the queer of folk so it's not new or avoidable anyway.

Also hot pink is actually a very masculine colour in Asia, particularly Thailand. It's a case of cultural traditions varying:
http://visual.ly/what-colors-mean-different-cultures

Why do people always make these arguments? We don't live in Thailand. We live in the U.S. and here skirts are for women. These dudes are knowingly choose to dress in a feminine manner. What other cultures do is irrelevant. What these people are doing is being done based on their own cultural standards and norms.

 

[Meta_Conscious]

the only thing American blacks know about African cultures is polygamy and skirts... thats it... shit is disingenuous as fuck...

 

[DOPEdweebz]

the only thing American blacks know about African cultures is polygamy and skirts... thats it... shit is disingenuous as fuck...

We forget its our homeland too but are too ashamed of it cuz the white man programmed most of too well to self hate.

 

[bck145]

too many beta's runnin around america these days....just make it easier for us alphas

 

[Disciplined InSight]

I'm an alpha male to the core....that shit is just straight up ridiculous and bitch made.

And fuck you passive bastards that has any tolerance for this..