My e-portfolio by Maria Florencia Tcheichvili

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We have selected two videos in which two different female artists, Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj, tell how they have always been targeted because of their characters and the relation this has to their gender.

Taylor Swift has always been seen by the media as a resentful person only because she wrote songs about ex-fiancees, while Nicki Minaj is labeled as a ‘’slut’’ and a “gross” woman only because she raps about sex in some of her songs.

Of course singing about ex-finacess and rapping about sex is something than men usually do, but they are not targeted as ‘’sluts’’ nor “resentful”, they have a free pass and people listen to their lyrics without judging them. The thing is that people seem to care excessively when women do so.

In the first video, Taylor Swift talks about how a woman cannot react to something because society sees her as exaggerated and as if she is overreacting; meanwhile, when men do so, it’s perceived as normal, and the public also see them as strong people that are speaking their minds.

In the second video, Nicki Minaj, an outstanding female rapper with a strong character as well, explains that she is seen by the public eye as a threat to male rappers because she raps about sex. Men do so as well, but, for sure, women cannot do it because they’re ‘’gross’’. She talks about how people expect women to have certain attitudes to maintain their image while men can do whatever they want without being questioned by society.

Women, especially those who are in the public eye, are constantly judged and their privacy is almost never respected. They have to deal with all kinds of intrusions, such as people wanting to know who they are dating or what underwear they are wearing. Of course, no one dares to ask this kind of question to a male.

As it is expressed in the paper The Women of Beowulf: Power and Duty in Anglo-Saxon Society, the traditional view of the women (...) as weak, extraneous characters used only to pass mead and worry about their children is patently false. Women are intelligent, important, and strong and they have a lot to say and the right to be listened to without being judged.

Women do not have to please anyone nor fit a certain role in society, they have multiple intelligences and none of them are less than those of men.

Benitez, Maidana, Tcheichvilli.

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