Crystal P. Smith, TheLoop21.com
- Misogynistic images slap you in the face every time you turn on the television or open a magazine. Pop culture has brought the objectification of women to the mainstream, and it’s especially detrimental to communities of color, which are already so delicate. But this topic is nothing new.
Now it’s 2009, and while there is more diversity in the way black women are depicted, it seems like they’re the ones doing the dirty work.
“Everyone wants to be rich and famous, women fall victim to it as much as men,” said Asha Jennings, a former Spelmanite and one of the driving forces in 2005′s Take Back the Music campaign. “To what bounds will they go to get that has resulted in the phenomenon of exploitation, both ends are willing to go as far as it takes — men will sell out the women, and women will sell themselves out.”
