{"id":11,"date":"2020-03-20T17:30:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T21:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/template-projectsite\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2020-04-28T23:37:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T03:37:21","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Dismantling Sexism as a Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_55\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-10\/files\/2020\/04\/pat-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Album Cover for <em>Seven the Hard Way<\/em> &#8211; Image from Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_56\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56\" style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-56\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-10\/files\/2020\/04\/brol.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"222\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Album cover for <em>Brol<\/em> &#8211; Image from Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1985, Pat Benatar\u2019s \u201cSex as a Weapon\u201d was a powerful statement against the over sexualization of women used in capitalism for advertising products. It also plays on third wave feminism ideas that focus on breaking down stereotypical gender norms, and reclamation of image. She accomplishes this through not only the humorous visual aspects of the video, but also through harnessing elements of rock such as electric guitar, drums, and aggressive vocals. In addition, the lyrical composition clearly exposes her message of hyper sexualization. Benatar\u2019s work in embracing third wave feminism in the music industry helped pave the way for future artists to continue challenging oppressive norms. Belgian pop artist, Ang\u00e8le, uses her 2019 video for \u201cBalance Ton Quoi\u201d to speak out against gender norms, and embrace fourth wave feminism. Similar to Benatar, she uses humorous visual images of reclamation of identity and musical elements of pop such as a simple back beat, synthesizers, and sweet vocals contrasting unconventional lyrics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In 1985, Pat Benatar\u2019s \u201cSex as a Weapon\u201d was a powerful statement against the over sexualization of women used in capitalism for advertising products. It also plays on third wave feminism ideas that focus on breaking down stereotypical gender norms, and reclamation of image. She accomplishes this through not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-10\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dismantling Sexism as a Weapon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4721,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[138603],"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}