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Essay / Rap and hip hop music and its effects on children and...
al, 2006, p. 432). Cobb & Boettcher (2007) determined that men will be more likely to experience "the primary effects of misogynistic rap because they will be less motivated and may reinforce negative attitudes toward women because this content is "generally specific to gender, which will encourage women to thoughtfully address the content of misogynistic rap.” the words” (p. 2037). In turn, “because women are often the targets of misogynistic rap lyrics,” they will be more likely to reject these demeaning messages (Cobb & Boettcher, 2007, p. 3029). More than three-quarters of those surveyed agreed that most rap/hip-hop music suggests that women are only for male sexual gratification and, in turn, almost all students surveyed found that rap/hip-hop songs -hop were more offensive to women than to men. However, most men responding to the survey had negative opinions about rap/hip-hop music, while most women had neutral opinions about rap/hip-hop music.