While trying to find four music videos, I purposely searched for videos with male artists to see how they decided to portray women sexually in their videos. I am a heterosexual female at the age of seventeen and a first-year university student. The music videos I chose to best represent some of the theories learned in this unit were “Earned it” by The Weeknd, “Gorilla” by Bruno Mars, “Shaky Shaky” and “Gasolina” both by Daddy Yankee. All four of these videos represent masculinity as the main focus and the centre of attention, always clothed while femininity is portrayed in a more provocative manor. The women are always in the back-ground dancing inappropriately demonstrating that all they are there for is to draw sexual attention which is a …show more content…
In Bruno Mars’ “Gorilla” for example the woman is on the pole while men sit around watching. As learned in this unit self is mainly self-image and self-awareness. It is known that self is not something everyone is born with, it develops while we grow and experience the world. If children are being born into a society where women are constantly sexualized in the media and always left in the background for the purpose of fulfilling men’s fantasies the self’s that will be built are young girls who think that is their purpose in life and young men who build a “self”, believing that is how women should be viewed and this is what leads to the rape culture our society has built today. This goes along with the theory of the looking-glass self. If women see other women like them portrayed this way they will view themselves in the same way. The way my sources represent relationships are in a way that men are meant to be the main focus while women are there for their entertainment when they want but other than that they are there to be put behind men. This message will lead to an awful moral development for the youth of today’s