Misogynistic Analysis Of Kanye West's Gold Digger

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“She takes my money when I’m in need”. Those lyrics from Kanye West’s song “Gold Digger” shows his misogynistic views about gold diggers and how women use men for money. Still, in other parts of the song he shows that he shows that he loves them (“It takes too much to touch her; from what I heard she got a baby by Busta; my best friend says she use to f**k with Usher; I don’t care what none of y’all say I still love her.”). Kanye is one of many artists (especially hip-hop artists) that uses misogyny in their lyrics and see all women this way. The concept of a gold digger is quite popular and has been glamorized over history, however, the term revels misogynist and stereotypical ideas about women’s worth and motivations. When it comes to pop …show more content…

It used to be different times when Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn were the “gold diggers”. Nowadays with all these offensive nouns they put to woman it’s not the same anymore. These term treats women like objects that have no ambitions, no value to offer to a man. It makes her seem like she has no life, no career, and nothing positive to offer to the relationship, except, of course, sex. If you look some of the other lyrics of Kanye West’s song you see his reference to plastic surgery (“She was supposed to buy your shorty Tyco with your money/She went to the doctor got lipo with your money”). Women often do plastic surgeries to boost some self-esteem, in order to look “perfect”, for the standards set by men. After all, for men everything is about having sex with sexy women. As in another rapper’s words (“All I f**k is bad bitches/I don’t want no mediocre.”). During the video clip of the song women are shown as models of magazines wearing lingerie and showing most of their body parts. Although there’s no sexual contact between Kanye West and the other models, they’re all shown in a pornographic way. These women lay on seducing positions, touching and rubbing themselves in a very sexual way. This is how media sexualizes the portrait of a woman showing to young girls that being successful is to see their bodies as a trade for social …show more content…

More specifically, a young woman that dates an older man is immediately considered a gold digger and cares for nothing more except his money. On the other hand, if a young man dates an older woman, the man is not judged at all despite his intentions. In this case the woman is considered a ‘cougar’ that hunts for younger men to have sexual relations with them. No matter what the intentions of men may be in a relation, it’s always the woman that gets degraded and called names. If she’s young and dates older rich men, she’s a gold digger. If she’s above 40 and dates younger men, she’s a cougar. If she has kids, she’s a MILF. There are so many names for women that are related to her attitude, look, etc. but there are none for men. It seems to me that at every age, women are seen as predators that harm

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