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"What I am wondering is why so many believe that a girl that acts promiscuous in a video is reason for calling her a slut or whore."
Regardless of whether they actually are or not, people are pointing out what they see, I think what you are confusing here is the difference between what the reality of a "slut" or "whore" is as opposed to its negative conotations and stigmas. You see, a slut is a sexually prormiscuous person, as far as I understand, as a whore is a person who sells some form of sexual pleasure for money, those are just the words designated for such specifics, the idea of their being right or wrong, good or bad, or reflected of them negatively as human beings is another matter entirely.
You cannot forget that reality doesn't fit into neat boxes, we are objects, we are slaves, we are also more free than others, be these in context of physical scientific reality or ideological moral philosophy.
Besides you are sidestepping the issue and following along a path that perpetuates these beliefs and ideals that create the negative stigmas and labels you are trying to argue against.
This perpetuation comes by reinforcing ideas that were based on sound rational but have since been twisted by fear, insecurity, and desire for control (fear is always ripe for exploitation). Sex is not bad, and as long as you live in balance and appropriate excess and moderation levels it should not be seen any differently, but other factors have been manipulated and prevail by those with enough power or fanatacism.
Part of the point, for me I don't care if people are seen as whores or sluts because I don't see those as bad things, rationally, though there is emotional reprecussions, which is what I feel may be a distorted and engrained perception reinforced by natural insecurities that have been exploited.
And if someone acts like a slut or a whore, someone might do what humans are so skilled at and point out the obvious, or just innocently describe the world as they see and understand it.
You should be concernced with the negative connotations and not the words.
"Isn't your very point of view indicate them as objects? You don't know these women to say what their reasons are for doing a video."
Their reason, unless they are forced which then excludes them from my point, is irrelevant, because the fact that they want to or are willing to do that is not wrong.
All entities are objects by definition.
If you are implying a context of moral slang, then as long as we are slaves of survival and any existing systems in place to ensure this survival, then yes, we are also objects, our own means to our own ends, collectively or individually.
To think otherwise is naive.
"The slapping labels doesn't only hold true for females. Males are also victims. The other day, I heard a woman call her husband a lazy bastard because she worked while he was the homemaker. Huh? A stay home woman is a homemaker but a man is lazy?"
Also, what you aren't looking at, evidence of our programming and perpetuations, is that the rappers are also stereotypes, they are facades or exaggerations. They are equally "forced" by consumer demand, most artists cry out against "sell-outs" but generally give in to greed and pride over such worries becoming womanizers and materialists often even if just for show. Unless you are super hot or a religious musician it generally doesn't pay to be yourself, or to be chaste and moral. Thats not what fuels "reality" tv, now is it?
"sure..... depends on the subject and mental state of the individual who is listening to the "rap""
This statement is true as much as any related "trigger" related to a mental state is. Meaning, from psychology terms, triggers are anything that encite such reactions, and if a rapper's anger or specific terminology is the trigger, than any equatable anger or terminology is just as much a trigger.
Music, like any artistic medium or life interaction is emotionally and or sensually based, and therefore has effects on emotions through subject matter or direct sensory affects.
What all this means is everything is a trigger, it just depends if you have that particular sensitivity as to whether it will become an issue.
And to tie up and quit gassing, it would seem as though these particular issues, because of their very natural place in our lives, with their natural implications for insecurities have been capitalized or attempted to be controlled in an innapropriate and ultimately more damaging fashion than possibly necessary.
By fearing and condemning natural acts necessary to our survival we have created very confused people, who instead of being taught to be responsible and balanced they are often taught that their naturally occuring feeling and instincts are bad, wrong, or even evil. And as long as we have to have sex to procreate, that's a serious mass psychological problem.
But it could just be that this is just how things are and that's that. Because we always strive for the most and best and condemn anything less untill we have lost the energy to continue such pursuits and settle.
"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is Not Ignorance, It is the ILLUSION of Knowledge. Stephen Hawking"
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