{"id":27509,"date":"2010-09-14T10:46:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T15:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=27509"},"modified":"2013-12-05T03:51:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T08:51:47","slug":"finding-glee-in-dr-dres-bitches-aint-shit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/09\/14\/finding-glee-in-dr-dres-bitches-aint-shit\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Glee in Dr. Dre’s “Bitches Ain’t Shit”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Cross-posted at Jezebel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sociologist Michael Kimmel<\/a> passed along a fantastic and entertaining example of resistance.\u00a0 In the video below, a Columbia University a cappella group<\/a> sings Dr. Dre’s Bitches Ain’t Shit<\/a>.\u00a0 The appropriation of the song works on so many levels: the all<\/span> heavily-white, all-female group, the sweet choral arrangement, the pastel prep fashion, the strategically placed tennis rackets. They use race, class, and gender contradictions to force us to see and hear the song in a new way. All serve to mock the original, taking the teeth out of the language at the same time that they expose it as grossly misogynistic. Awesome.<\/p>\n

<\/object><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cross-posted at Jezebel. Sociologist Michael Kimmel passed along a fantastic and entertaining example of resistance.\u00a0 In the video below, a Columbia University a cappella group sings Dr. Dre’s Bitches Ain’t Shit.\u00a0 The appropriation of the song works on so many levels: the all heavily-white, all-female group, the sweet choral arrangement, the pastel prep fashion, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,55,256,285],"class_list":["post-27509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-gender","tag-humor","tag-raceethnicity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27509"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59761,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27509\/revisions\/59761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}