In reply to FAF.

Dodai Stewart, deputy editor of the US pop culture blog Jezebel, points out that female artists are systematically encouraged to capitalise on their sexuality. "Female artists are definitely sexualised more often, which helps sell albums, but they're also criticised for being so sexual. Women can't win." There's also a contrast between what happens in the videos by male and female R&B and hip-hop acts. In the former, you're likely to see semi-dressed female models cavorting around the artist. In the latter, the artist will be the one semi-dressed: there'll be no sign of male models gyrating their bare buttocks to camera. The same thing happens away from videos, too, as Stewart points out: "Rihanna was on the cover of Rolling Stone, and the focal point was her derriere. Jay-Z was photographed for the same publication wearing a suit and tie."
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