Boyz N The Hood

The degrading of women is something that bothers me extremely. The degrading of women is portrayed through many songs played on the radio, which only teaches youth that that is what women are there for. Also, many scenes where women are being degraded also only teaches youth that women are “pieces of ass, hoes, tricks, sluts, and bitches,” like they say. When men degrade women by calling them sluts, whores, etc, they do it to prove a point. In the film, Boyz N The Hood, the scene where Treys’ mother was hosting a BBQ, the young black man, “Icecube” was playing, was talking down to the women who were trying to serve themselves food. He said, “oh let these hoes get there food first,” or something close to. One of the young women stuck up for herself by saying she “wasn’t no hoe.” The young man then proceeded to say something like, “oh I’m sorry, bitch!” All this represented was men have the right to call women whatever they want and that they are there for being used for sex by call them hoes and bitches. This was very offensive. All of this degrading of women is something that happens every single day through films, songs, school, sports, etc. It’s something that must be changed and the only way to do so is for the men to figure out what they’re doing is wrong.



This is an unequal treatment of sexes. The men who talk down to women would never say these degrading terms to other men. So in fact, this is unequal treatment toward women. Women are seen to some men as objects, that are there to be used or just seen and not heard like in Boyz N The Hood. The men in the film used words like “bitch” or “ho” toward women, support this. -Maret