Everybody’s dropping cats over this music video, like it’s child abuse or something. At first glance it may seem like some kid with a generous allowance imitating what he sees on the BET, maybe to set himself up with a future. After all he’s a little short for basketball yet, and you know what they say about that. But you’re wrong. It is insidious, it is sexism, it is teaching kids to objectify women. Apparently.
There are bums in this video. Multiple bums. And because he is short, they happen to be at eye level. Huffington Post posits it may be “too explicit?” asking a very real question and in no way trying to drum up page hits. A Vibe blogger called CPS on the kid’s folks because it is the only way anyone will ever think of Vibe at all. But all bums are at eye level when you are six! Should the ladies in question feel a little strange about shaking their asses at a 1st grader for an entire day of shooting, with multiple costume changes? Sure, and I believe the uncomfortable feelings are downright palpable, but by the time they realized what was going on they had most likely blown their commission on blow and various animal print summer wear at the thrift shop. There was no turning back.
The chick on the left just realized she wants nothing more than to button those shorts, but she also knows the continuity director is a twat about that shit.
Of course, you can always count on the YouTube comments in any video to give us incisive analysis of items of cultural significance. I once watched a Carl Sagan video that somehow sparked a flame war concerning the proper way to consume fecal matter from one’s own mother’s vagina. YouTube is second only to Yahoo! Answers as the internet’s repository for Mensa over-qualifiers.
Geeze indeed. Kid’s dropping rhymes at a fourth grade level, and you can’t force a cogent sentence out of that shriveled up dishrag under your weave. Though you do have psychic whore telling powers, so you may have a valid argument.
Why would you… OH! I smell ya. Because he’s a little brown boy in a pool. This kid’s just talking about dancing with older ladies, and you’re talking about your poop. Who’s had the tough upbringing now?
I reposted this 1) because I laughed my ass off for 5 minutes and 2) this is the caliber of people adding their voices of dissent on YouTube. Do you really want to be in this club? Not secretly, but out in the anonymous internet public? Leave the kid alone. How many of you have over a million hits on YT and a single on iTunes? Your jealous of him and his haircut and his alarming outy that looks like he swallowed a live chicken whole and it wants out.
Yes! Yes, I bet exactly that. This single is sending the little perv to college. You’re always going to be a lower-functioning racist. That likes metal. Your projection is showing, fuck head.
Really I don’t see the big deal. The kid wants the ladies to know his songs are intended to make their posteriors shake in an urban, dancey kind of way. Kids have been giving dance instruction in lyrics since “The Hokey Pokey.” Any further implied sexualization of the lyrics are in the minds of the oversexed listener.
The only real problem I see is the “all night long” part. Aspiring young rappers should probably have a bed time no matter how many whores he’s Super Soakered that day. Little bastard had to be plum tuckered.
Not to mention the very real decline of standards for hot chicks in hip hop videos. This can’t be the best the casting director could do just outside Miami. If it is, this is my new reason why I don’t visit Miami.
so having just read this article as well as having just read your friends article you posted on facebook. http://www.cfmpl.org/blog/2012/07/05/anti-feminism-hhs-contraception-mandate/
there is a lot of confusion for me on the topics of ‘sexism’ and ‘objectifying women’. Your friend contends that “Women are rational agents with economic potential that rivals men….They do not need the government protecting them from the consequences of their actions.”= (to me) that means men and women are equals.
However, if men and women are equals and they do not need anyone to protect them from the consequences of their own actions- they must be responsible for themselves their decisions and actions similarly to men. Therefore, if women are responsible for themselves they cannot be objectified by someone else, they can only objectify themselves. They’ve chosen to appear in a ridiculous rap video in a bathing suit fawning over a 7 year old. To me, the contrary argument that a woman is being objectified would somehow suggest that she is there against her own will or wearing a bikini against her own will or is simply not responsible enough for herself to be able to make an informed decision on her own behalf. I honestly hate the battle of the sexes, I prefer the balance of the sexes it is much more inclined to the way nature intended. No one is better than the other, we are equals just at different things. And as a man, I would hate there not to be women around that would be just awful, women make shit interesting and life worth living. However, if there is a flaw in my logic I would love to be enlightened as to where I am wrong. As I see it, the only flaw in my logic is that I have pre supposed that men are capable of making their own decisions on their own behalf…one quick view of youtube to see frat boys lighting bacardi 151 on fire and drinking it and spitting out fire might throw my pre supposition right out the window. In which case I gladly admit that MOST people are retarded without race or gender bias, particularly in America.
If there is a more enlightened view please shine some light on it for me. As I see it the argument is: either some women are responsible for their own actions therefore cannot be objectified by others, only objectified by themselves (in this context) unless they are dragged into a stupid music video with a gun to their head. And others are not capable of making their own informed decision so they end up in this video with a bikini on “all night long” and are objectified by others, because they are not smart enough to know their own best interest. By my own admission, I know little about gender studies so perhaps I am completely over simplifying but to me ‘sexism’ and ‘objectifying women’ are terms that just got thrown around for about 40 years and have lost meaning.
http://www.facebook.com/scumbagstyle Mark Hurley
Over-simplifying?? On the contrary, you are thinking WAY too much about this. This is about laughing at ridiculous people, ridiculous haircuts, and the inability of a hip-hop video director to get bitches without cellulite and massive beaks to put on a bikini for a 6 year-old black kid’s equivalent of Toddlers and Tiaras.
That not withstanding, your points are indeed well thought out, and worthy of debate. I believe you are touching on some subjects that point to our society deteriorating to a pre-revolution French model. Do we, as a society (and therefore government), allow these women to go all Les Miserables and sell their pussies and hair to feed the kid they never wanted? Or do we demand they go hungry for their self-respect? I don’t know the answer, but, as with T&T, society doesn’t seem to care beyond anonymously bitching on YouTube forums, so why not perpetuate it and have a good time?
Brian Kane
I know you’re totally laughing at this little kid, but the seriousness of my response was from the seriousness of your friends article you posted on facebook. I was kind of responding to what she wrote by way of what you wrote…I could have been more clear about that.
Either way I’m glad we agree, it’s either gotta be girl power OR as you said “perpetuate it and have a good time”. Allowing women to go back and forth freely being taken seriously on tuesday, then in a bikini wednesday for a 7 year olds rap video and back to being taken seriously thursday is an option we as men just don’t get and nobody should.
I Would Be More Worried About Something Else Popping
Everybody’s dropping cats over this music video, like it’s child abuse or something. At first glance it may seem like some kid with a generous allowance imitating what he sees on the BET, maybe to set himself up with a future. After all he’s a little short for basketball yet, and you know what they say about that. But you’re wrong. It is insidious, it is sexism, it is teaching kids to objectify women. Apparently.
There are bums in this video. Multiple bums. And because he is short, they happen to be at eye level. Huffington Post posits it may be “too explicit?” asking a very real question and in no way trying to drum up page hits. A Vibe blogger called CPS on the kid’s folks because it is the only way anyone will ever think of Vibe at all. But all bums are at eye level when you are six! Should the ladies in question feel a little strange about shaking their asses at a 1st grader for an entire day of shooting, with multiple costume changes? Sure, and I believe the uncomfortable feelings are downright palpable, but by the time they realized what was going on they had most likely blown their commission on blow and various animal print summer wear at the thrift shop. There was no turning back.
The chick on the left just realized she wants nothing more than to button those shorts, but she also knows the continuity director is a twat about that shit.
Of course, you can always count on the YouTube comments in any video to give us incisive analysis of items of cultural significance. I once watched a Carl Sagan video that somehow sparked a flame war concerning the proper way to consume fecal matter from one’s own mother’s vagina. YouTube is second only to Yahoo! Answers as the internet’s repository for Mensa over-qualifiers.
Geeze indeed. Kid’s dropping rhymes at a fourth grade level, and you can’t force a cogent sentence out of that shriveled up dishrag under your weave. Though you do have psychic whore telling powers, so you may have a valid argument.
Why would you… OH! I smell ya. Because he’s a little brown boy in a pool. This kid’s just talking about dancing with older ladies, and you’re talking about your poop. Who’s had the tough upbringing now?
I reposted this 1) because I laughed my ass off for 5 minutes and 2) this is the caliber of people adding their voices of dissent on YouTube. Do you really want to be in this club? Not secretly, but out in the anonymous internet public? Leave the kid alone. How many of you have over a million hits on YT and a single on iTunes? Your jealous of him and his haircut and his alarming outy that looks like he swallowed a live chicken whole and it wants out.
Yes! Yes, I bet exactly that. This single is sending the little perv to college. You’re always going to be a lower-functioning racist. That likes metal. Your projection is showing, fuck head.
Really I don’t see the big deal. The kid wants the ladies to know his songs are intended to make their posteriors shake in an urban, dancey kind of way. Kids have been giving dance instruction in lyrics since “The Hokey Pokey.” Any further implied sexualization of the lyrics are in the minds of the oversexed listener.
The only real problem I see is the “all night long” part. Aspiring young rappers should probably have a bed time no matter how many whores he’s Super Soakered that day. Little bastard had to be plum tuckered.
Not to mention the very real decline of standards for hot chicks in hip hop videos. This can’t be the best the casting director could do just outside Miami. If it is, this is my new reason why I don’t visit Miami.
Also, yes, his dick is on his stomach.
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