Michele was introduced on Fallon's show on Monday with Fallon’s house band, the Roots, playing Fishbone’s song ‘Lyin’ Ass Bitch.’ This was totally inappropriate.
I don't like or dislike Michele and haven’t followed what she has been saying during the debates and on the campaign trail. However, as a woman, the disrespect of women especially one who hasn’t projected herself in a distasteful way is wrong.
Love her or hate her, she is a conservative, intelligent and hardworking mother, woman, and politician who shouldn’t be introduced with such a song.
The disrespect of women in this society is becoming more and more pervasive and needs to stop. Any disrespect of women must be frowned upon and nipped in the bud, so that it doesn’t continue and desensitizes people to the fact that it is wrong because such will lead to more demeaning of women and even violence against women. Also, such incidents will discourage other women from running for office.
I say nip it in the bud or it gets worse. Just look at music videos these days displaying women as “walking bling.” Music videos weren’t always that way and because when the trend started it wasn’t nipped in the bud, we now have degrading short movies called music videos where women are paraded as often disrespected props AKA “walking bling” which are entertainment industry staples today.
Politics is a dirty game that many women often don’t want to play. The Minnesota Congresswoman, who summoned up the courage, is putting in the hard work and blazing her own trail by coming out of her comfort zone as a candidate for the Republican nomination and she doesn’t need to be disrespected like she was by the band playing the song.
However, thinking about the situation from a broader perspective, it's great that we are having this discussion about the unfortunate incident. It shows that women are now in more powerful positions dictating what stories are being covered in the media, and people are talking about it, which is a good thing.
I don't like or dislike Michele and haven’t followed what she has been saying during the debates and on the campaign trail. However, as a woman, the disrespect of women especially one who hasn’t projected herself in a distasteful way is wrong.
Love her or hate her, she is a conservative, intelligent and hardworking mother, woman, and politician who shouldn’t be introduced with such a song.
The disrespect of women in this society is becoming more and more pervasive and needs to stop. Any disrespect of women must be frowned upon and nipped in the bud, so that it doesn’t continue and desensitizes people to the fact that it is wrong because such will lead to more demeaning of women and even violence against women. Also, such incidents will discourage other women from running for office.
I say nip it in the bud or it gets worse. Just look at music videos these days displaying women as “walking bling.” Music videos weren’t always that way and because when the trend started it wasn’t nipped in the bud, we now have degrading short movies called music videos where women are paraded as often disrespected props AKA “walking bling” which are entertainment industry staples today.
Politics is a dirty game that many women often don’t want to play. The Minnesota Congresswoman, who summoned up the courage, is putting in the hard work and blazing her own trail by coming out of her comfort zone as a candidate for the Republican nomination and she doesn’t need to be disrespected like she was by the band playing the song.
However, thinking about the situation from a broader perspective, it's great that we are having this discussion about the unfortunate incident. It shows that women are now in more powerful positions dictating what stories are being covered in the media, and people are talking about it, which is a good thing.
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