I personally don’t agree that hip-hop is misogynistic per se, nor do I believe that blacks or African-American culture is any more misogynistic than any other culture or race. "
For what it’s worth, I believe “misogyny,” and all the other human foilbles that exist in society, are a human condition that is no more or less present in one race than another. No race or nationality has a corner market on being misogynistic as misogyny continues to be a universal aspect of human nature that transcends color and creed. The only difference among the cultures, nationalities and races of the world is how that misogyny is expressed.
This needs to be said, because someone in this thread, in an uninformed and a racially bigotted way, keeps on insisting that East Asian culture is markedly more discriminatory toward females and more misogynistic in its treatment of women than the West is b/c of an alleged existence of a cultural preference for male babies (which is a ridiculous racist, anachronistic and fallacious generalization to apply to a whole nation I might add). (Some families might prefer having a male baby, but to say that is typical of a whole race? That is going too far.)
However, in major U.S. cities like New York, Chicago, L.A., Dallas, Miami, etc., NO sane American woman would go walking off by herself into the night in a major downtown area or inner city neighborhood – i.e., if she had any sense about her own safety and personal security.
To wit, police blotters in the U.S. in large-, medium- and even small-sized urban areas in North America continue to be dotted on a daily basis with reports of rape and other forms of sexual assault against women so often, that we as Americans have almost become inured to it.
In fact, we who have lived in major urban centers in the U.S. practically expect that there will invariably be at least a couple of reported rapes per week in the inner city neighborhoods we live.
In Korea however, where I currently live, and even more so in Japan, it is so incredibly safe for young women to walk around in downtown areas and alley ways by themselves at all hours of the night, that the average westerner cannot comprehend it. And western women who visit here automatically take notice of this aspect as one of the biggest differences in street safety for women in East Asia versus the West.
And African and Middle Eastern cultures have their own forms of misogynystic practices such as female ritual circumcision, fundamentalist teachings that prohibit women from doing normal things, and forcing women to wear veils or burkhas.
So who’s to say what race or what nationality is more misogynistic than the other? Yes, in Asia, there tends to be overt male chauvinism and the sociopolitical status of women in NE Asia is perhaps 50 years behind their sisters in the West.
However, women in a city like Seoul should not fear getting raped or killed at night while walking home alone as women in Chicago do, b/c it almost never happens here, and if it does, it is usually perpetrated by white American G.I.s.
In the States though, white American serial murderers and serial rapists are part of America’s social fabric, such as the recently caught Greenriver Killer, Gary Leon Ridgeway who killed 50+ women; Ted Bundy; Richard Speck; Danny Rawlings, aka the “Gainesville Slasher”; Richard Ramirez; Ed Kemper, etc., etc. etc
Their crimes, and many others like them perpetrated by white American men, continue to be largely incomprehensible to Koreans and Japanese. That the rest of the world is shocked by such sheer brutality against women in the U.S. serves as perfect examples of how much latent and well- concealed misogyny continues to exist in the U.S., specifically among white American men.
So please don’t tell us that East Asian or African-American cultures are more misogynistic or more discriminatory toward women than white culture is. It really is beneath me to have to listen to such ignorant drivel. Such claims are also quite silly and smack of racism as well.