Marked Woman Unmarked Men Analysis

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Society has one of the greatest influences for every problematic occurrence in our environment, whether it is based on race, gender or even the new trends that evolve causing a disruption to many. Amandla Stenberg speaks about culture appropriation and appreciation in her video, “Don’t Cash Crop on My Cornrows,” where people, especially celebrities are taking the trend of black culture without giving any proper accreditations to blacks or helping them with the power in their hand when black people are harmed brutally at the hands of the police. Comparing to two other speakers Deborah Tannen, author of “Marked Woman, Unmarked Men” who writes about the judgments women have to face based on the way they dress and the way they represent themselves …show more content…

She used different artists to say that music videos are the reasons for expansion of black cultural appropriation. Stenberg mentions Azalea Banks tweet, “its funny to see people like Igloo Australia silent when these things happen… Black Culture is cool, but black issues sure aren’t huh?” (Stenberg). She emphasizes on the idea of how black culture is so popular and taken in rapidly but when issues such as police brutality arises, silence rides along. She used Azalea’s tweet and a visual image to show what the celebrity had to say. Stenberg gave the audience different black trends that is being taken on by white celebrities such as the use of corn rolls, grills, and twerking. She discusses that black women are shamed, but black fashion is being taken as trend, which causes a bigger controversy on the level of regards towards black culture. Denoting back to the other article, Tannen used real life evidence to show that women are marked and men are okay just by everything and anything given in our societal community. In Tannen’s article she includes that a form of titles allows people to be categorized into different groupings. For instance, “most forms give four titles to choose from. “Mr.” carries no meaning other than that the respondent is male. But a woman who checks “Mrs.” …show more content…

It left the people contemplating about the issue on black culture appreciation and appropriation and coming to realization that it is an important factor that is occurring. “In the 2010s, pop stars and icons adopted black culture as a way of being edgy and gaining attentions. In 2013, Miley Cyrus twerks and uses black women as props, and then in 2014, in one of her videos called ‘This Is How We Do,’ Katy Perry uses Ebonics and hand gestures and eats watermelons while wearing cornrows before cutting inexplicably to a picture of Aretha Franklin” (Stenberg). She uses words that is comprehendible by the viewers and uses terms that are used day to day. Also, she uses chronological date order allowing everyone to follow along without being lost to the argument. Vendituoli kept a serious tone throughout the introduction, which enforced the audience to see that it is a matter to be concerned about while Stenberg uses her words in a firm steady manner to emphasize certain phrases she wants the listeners to remember. “The gunman, 22, who killed six students at Santa Barbara before fatally shooting himself, left behind a chilling video and diatribe describing hateful views of women and promising to “punish” them for never being attracted to him” (Vendituoli 107). This statement gives a dismaying tone where the gunman is sending

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