boys looking like girls and girls looking like boys.

I've always found it strange how much more attention a guy gets when he dresses and acts like a girl than a girl gets when she dresses like a boy. It's for some reason much more controversial to see a guy dressing as a girl. I don't undesrtand why there's such a larger issue. Maybe it's because society thinks that it's more acceptable to be a boy than to be a girl. I may be thinking too deeply into this, but maybe there's some truth to this thought.

I can't help but be reminded of a song that Madonna wrote called, "What It Feels Like for a Girl." The song basically revolves around what I'm talking about here. Here's a few of the strongest lines from the song:

Girls can wear jeans
And cut their hair short
Wear shirts and boots
'Cause it's OK to be a boy
But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading
'Cause you think that being a girl is degrading
But secretly you'd love to know what it's like
Wouldn't you
What it feels like for a girl

I think there is a deeper issue embedded in society's outlook on the difference between males and females. I would have no idea where to start on this. I think it just all relates back to society's inability to adapt to new things. We haven't yet let go of racism. We still have yet to see men and women as equals. Though society as a whole might be close to it, discrimination like this will always exist. We can never wipe it out. That's why girls looking like boys is no big deal. But for a boy to dress like a girl is still so taboo.

I have a bone to pick with the rap genre

To me, there are a lot of problems with the current rap generation. Aside from the incorrect grammar and degrading terms rappers use to address themselves and women, the videos make things worse. I never realized before this class just how up in arms I can get about stereotyping women, but I'm seeing myself getting bothered by it more and more. I guess the thing that bothers me the most about the videos are that the women play no other role than just standing there barely dressed. They're silent. They get groped. They get rubbed on. Hell, they grope and rub on other people. But they play no other role! They dont'! It's very bothersome to me that women are silent in these videos. Until they occasionally say something in a cute baby voice like, "yeah, daddy" or something like that, they're just there for visual purposes. Rap videos are on all the time on stations like FUSE, IMF, MTV2, etc. Young people religiously watch these stations, and this is what we're showing them? They're seeing that it's okay to sexually objectify women. Young girls are going to start thinking that it's their duty to rub on guys, to be touched by guys, to be silent while they are the main event.

It disgusts me.