Barack Obama On Poisonous Masculinity In Rap Music: Twerking Vixens & Stereotypes

“You appear harassed that you simply gotta be performing that method.”

Former President Barack Obama and Golden State Warrior Steph Curry mentioned the problems surrounding masculinity on the annual My Brother’s Keeper summit in Oakland. In the course of the dialogue, Obama insisted on the significance altering the societal view younger males’s show vulnerability. “The notion that someway defining your self as a person relies on, can you put someone else down, capable of dominate… that’s an outdated view,” Obama stated.

He additionally addressed racism’s position in Black males’s obvious have to “show” themselves with aggression.“Racism traditionally on this society sends a message that you’re ‘lower than,’ ” Obama stated. “We really feel we’ve got to compensate by exaggerating stereotypical methods males are imagined to act. And that’s a entice.”

Barack Obama On Toxic Masculinity In Rap Music: Twerking Vixens & Stereotypes 
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The topic poisonous masculinity in rap music was additionally talked about because it perpetuates these damaging stereotypes, in line with Obama. He addressed the way in which girls are depicted in music movies as professional the issue. “Satirically, that exhibits the vulnerability you’re feeling,” Obama stated. “When you have been very assured about your sexuality, you don’t should have eight girls round you twerking… you appear harassed that you simply gotta be performing that method.”

“I bought one lady who I’m very proud of,” he added.