Blog #12

The spring bling video was actually amusing to me, but not in a good way. I was extremely surprised that women and men were acting like that on camera. The women were consistently disrespected and couldn't even walk anywhere without getting grabbed and touched. I have seen this before, but not to the extent that was on the video. Jasmine mentioned in her blog that this somewhat reminded her of Texas Relays, and that was almost EXACTLY like this. Women were dressed showing off their curves and bodies, which led men to thing that they wanted to be approached or touched on.
Women who fall into the stereotypes definitely engage in more risky behaviors, because they believe that everyone else is performing in those activities. When groups of them come together, it only makes the activities occur more regularly because that makes them think it is normal. The article on stereotypes provided empirical evidence for all of this. I thought it was interesting how it said in the article that when women were exposed to more stereotypical images of men drinking, smoking, and being more promiscuous that they were more likely to be attracted to those types of men. It also mentioned that regardless of the circumstances such as SES, education, etc, girls who watched more of the videos were more likely to do engage in behaviors similar to the ones in the rap videos.
In the other article about enhancing critical consciousness in black men, I think that it is essential for other black men to understand the effects of negative modeling because they have such an impact on the way that we act and think. It is proven that enhanced critical thinking, and increased community development has a positive effect.