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1) The women in music videos were not forced to be in the video, it's their own choice. If these women don't mind being called a hoe why does anyone else? I've seen women portrayed as whore or hypersexual the same in other music genre but you never hear anything about them in negative way.
2) Is it possible to be a Hip-Hop Feminist?
3) Is public images (celebrity, video vixen or Television Personality) a new form of slavery?
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