Hip Hop #1

The fact I choose is Rap music as a whole is disrespectful to women. This statement in my opinion is false because women aren't always the only one's who are disrespected in the music industry. There are rappers who disrespect each other out of a gang type thing. There may also be men who look at rappers and their music from a women's perspective. A quote supporting this opinion is "I mean, it's this real ironic sort of thing in hip hop, that it is such a homophobic culture oftentimes and yet it's so completely homoerotic. You know when L.L Cool Jay's got his shirt off and he's lickin' his lips, it's not just women lookin' at that. You know, it's, it's guys too. There is some awareness of the homoeroticism, but people aren't...really willing to confront it."-Tim,m West, Rapper. There could be a model man on television and there are times when, since men are around each other and they don't want other's to accuse them of being a homosexual because they are looking, they would all just cover their eyes and like act like they really don't want to look. But if they were alone, they probably would look. The reason I don't agree with this fact is because of two specific things. One is that women aren't the only ones who are disrespected by rappers, because you have men and rappers who are constantly disrespecting other men and rappers all the time. The second one is that rappers now and days disrespect men who are supposedly "faggots" or "p******". So it's not really safe to say that women are the only one's who are disrespected. You have men who are disrespected as well.

Media Analysis Movies

The difference between the two movies was that the first one was about a lady who was very opinionated. She was mainly against the fact that in reality it seems as if the male always has the upper hand. For instance, the magazine covers of the little boys who were already being portrayed as the "tough guys" and the other cover with the innocent little girl who is looking down at a flower, being kind of quiet. Also, she got on the fact of how women and girls are always the ones who are referred to as the ones who don't talk and just "shut up". In the second movie, a man is talking about how men are mostly the ones who are violent! Like there is a huge difference between the male and female ratio of killings. From the movie, it told that the male is the one who is always the one that does the most murdering, raping, etc to a female. It also talked about how the males were the ones who did the school shootings, and not females. There was a more chance of a school shooting being done by a male than a female. But in comparison, I believe that both movies and both speakers are against males in my persective, because they were going on and on about what the male does and what he says. And I kind of agree on their facts because of the simple fact that males do put themselves in the position where they are portrayed as murderers and rapist, and they use themselves as an example to be told to society.

Superbowl

What I learned about Superbowl commercials was that they have many messages. They also use different things in their commercials to send out to the viewers, a message that they should buy this product because it had a cool commercial. Some products don't really work. Like when they use the ProActiv commercial, they use different celebrities that say they use this product and since people follow and listen to celebrities, they will buy the product and it may turn out that the product doesn't really work. Some people just think that since the celebrity is using it and they are cool, then they should use it and become just like the celebrity. I've have learned that some Superbowl commercials add things into their commercial to make people want to buy the products. Plus they air a lot of beer commercials since its around Superbowl and they want people(preferably adults) to buy the beer so they can make more money.

Key concept

The key concept that I understand the most is concept number 1, which is -All media messages are constructed. Meaning that some ads that are on television construct a message that sometimes isn't the truth. I understood this concept the best because it basically lets you know that just because you see an ad on television with celebrities and all doesn't mean that that product really works for you. For instance, a Pantene commercial has pretty woman with long beautiful hair. It portrays the message that if you use Pantene, you will have long, silky, and beautiful hair just like the lady.