The rap videos are made that way to sell and its not just rap videos its alot of the videos to sell. I would hope men arent foolish enough to believe women are all like that. I do not believe that for one bit. Maybe if you are maybe 15 years old and cannot seperate reality from make believe. Other then that I think men do know the difference. Just like women realizing there are alot of men that dont come close to the portrayal of men in the same videos. In reality men wake up with hair tossled they burp and belch and that is reality. Women know this as well.

I might be in a minority of video watchers, but personally I hate it. I mean, when it’s done right (that is, with taste and not just for its own sake), it can be appealing. But lately these “artists” are throwing as many of these women onto the screen just to get you to watch their video, even though the song kind of sucks.

Besides that, there is the problem that it objectifies women; that it is contributing to the overall idea in our culture that only a certain body type is beautiful; that beautiful women are to be seen and not heard, and that they are trophies we men get once we just get rich enough, and that the richer you are, the hotter your girl should be, as a status symbol. It contributes to the idea that women are out there in the world just to gratify the sexual or ego-based needs of men. And it’s a little too close to the idea of the harem, that the rich and powerful can round up all the available beautiful women for themselves and leave the rest of the men out there spanking it and angry, an idea that’s very undemocratic. I have problems with this whole mindset that overlooks what’s really in people, and that focusses on a philosophy of material gain and macho posturing over nearly all else.
You can’t take it with you…