While I was just doing some catching up on the reading I noticed the conversation about equality of the sexes. First off, I find the inconsistencies in the Bible really interesting. This evidence of multiple contributors is pretty obvious since it is unlikely one person wrote the entire bible, but it is interesting to see these different views come together. One example of these differences is the relationship between males and females. In Genesis, the first mention of the creation of humans has a man and a woman being created simultaneously, while, later in the chapter, the man is created first, and the woman is created from his rib. Already we can see where this is going; one view seems all for equality while the other view hints at women's dependency on men. This view also shows that Eve was the first to give into sin and then coax Adam onto the dark side (Genesis 3:6). This decline in humanity turns into ammunition for future sexism by attaching sexuality and sin to women.
So to bring this back to my title, I'm going to say that although I don't agree with the way women are portrayed in music these days, the attitude did not start with Kanye West and Jay-Z, but with some Hebrew guys writing the Bible back in the day. Apparently we don't progress as quickly as we should if we haven't gotten away from sexism after however many thousands of years.
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