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Gender Stereotypes: Love And Hip-Hop

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Love and Hip-Hop is a reality show that takes place in multiple places, filming few famous people associated with Hip-Hop. The different locations are taking place in New York City, Atlanta Georgia, California, and soon to come Miami Florida. Over the year Love and Hip-Hop has caught the eyes of young African American people from sixteen to thirty year old male and females. Influencing them to feel like it’s acceptable for males to mistreat females, and for females to accept the treatment. Also Love and Hip- Hop has shown males to feel like its normal for them to obtain multiple relations with different females at once, living a double life. This in fact has causes female to turn to each other fight over the male, not holding his responsible …show more content…

While watching this show you can also look at the show hash tag on Facebook, and see that all young people think it’s cool to live a life full of drama. In the black community you can see a lot of young females whom is fighting each other over a male that supposed to be in a relationship with. Love and Hip-Hop says they black women are weak, and don’t have the strength to find love in the right place. Also, it shows that black males are always in and out of jail, away from their family and friends. Love and Hip-Hop has become less of a reality show and more of an entertainment show. This show has turned Love and Hip-Hop has got outrageous with the drama and starting to make a mock out of the black community as if all we do is fight or go to jail. Love and Hip-Hop has made black young people to feel like it’s a culture norm to become living in a circle of love and going to prison for the struggle of your family. It forgotten to promote motivation for those who going through these situation, by showing how these famous people gotten where they are today. Instead, Love and Hip-Hop has promoted that it’s acceptable to mistreat and misuse females. Also, promoting it’s acceptable to go to prison, as long as is for your family

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