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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.47,0:00:04.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♫ "Are you willing to sacrifice your life?" ♫
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.28,0:00:08.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Kanye West's music video for his hit song Monster was recently leaked on the Internet
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.29,0:00:12.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it generated an enormous amount of controversy because of the depictions of women in it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.57,0:00:17.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The video is reprehensible, I really don't suggest going and watching it if you can avoid it because
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.19,0:00:18.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really wish that I hadn't seen it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.95,0:00:22.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To give you a sense of it, this video is built on this whole "Sexy Dead Woman" trope.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.80,0:00:26.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which seems to be popping up a lot lately.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.21,0:00:30.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Throughout the video we are presented with a series of lifeless, nearly naked, mutilated women's bodies.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.78,0:00:36.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We see women, or parts of women, all white, draped across sofas, propped up in beds, hanging from nooses,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.74,0:00:39.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all with perfectly applied make up and high heels.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.58,0:00:43.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In addition to the sexualized, dismembered body parts, we're also treated to
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.36,0:00:45.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kanye holding up a freshly severed head.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.61,0:00:50.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In another scene Kanye is pictured lying in his bed, rearranging the lifeless bodies of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.41,0:00:52.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two lingerie clad corpses.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.03,0:00:55.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Black women in the video aren't dead like the White women are, rather they're
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.82,0:01:00.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,evil, cannibalizing, Kanye attacking, man-eating, demons.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.43,0:01:07.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let's recap: White women, eroticized, mutilated and dead. Black women, animalistic, savage demons.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.71,0:01:12.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Monster is a single from his number one hit album "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy".
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.19,0:01:20.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So whose to blame? Kanye clearly, but also Roc-A-Fella Records, Universal Music Group,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.02,0:01:24.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the entire music industry, and how the market functions in general.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.09,0:01:28.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Record labels have a goal of trying to get their artists to stick out of the crowd in an oversaturated
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.100,0:01:34.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,media landscape. For decades they have been making sexualized, shocking, violent media products.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.83,0:01:39.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More and more we see the industry cynically relying on sensationalism and glamorization of
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.45,0:01:42.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,violence against women in order to boost sales.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.02,0:01:46.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not gonna get into a shot by shot analysis of the video and the imagery used,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.42,0:01:48.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in fact I'm not even gonna show it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.53,0:01:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This shouldn't have to be said and sadly it does need to be said.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.40,0:01:54.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is misogyny.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.15,0:01:56.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that should make us all rightfully angry.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.90,0:02:00.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And perhaps this would be a good time to define misogyny because there seems to be some confusion
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.90,0:02:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the word in relation to Kanye's video.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.02,0:02:09.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First, when we talk about women, we mean full and complete human beings
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.59,0:02:11.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all that that entails.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.71,0:02:16.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Misogyny as defined by the Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology, "is a cultural attitude of hatred
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.54,0:02:21.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for females simply because they are female. It is a central part of sexist prejudice and ideology and,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.82,0:02:26.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as such, is an important basis for the oppression of females in male-dominated societies.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.39,0:02:30.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Misogyny is manifested in many different ways from jokes to pornography to violence
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.70,0:02:34.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the self-contempt women may be taught to feel toward their own bodies."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.59,0:02:38.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again, misogyny can take many forms both subtle and obvious.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.22,0:02:43.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This video is an example of misogyny at its most obvious which Kanye excuses by saying
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.72,0:02:46.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was a way to generate "controversy and sales".
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.13,0:02:52.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like Samhita in her Feministing article, "If he really wanted to take the scene by storm, he should
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.81,0:02:55.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,treat women like human beings, that'll shock 'em".
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.52,0:03:00.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Monster not only reduces women to sexual objects and perpetuates racist stereotypes but
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.14,0:03:05.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it actually fetishizes the aspects of women that don't even require us to be physically alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.28,0:03:09.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that bares repeating, this video fetishizes the aspects of women
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.15,0:03:11.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that don't even require us to be physically alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.74,0:03:20.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♫ "...got the lowest self esteem, the prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings."