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Sexual Assault Prevention Colleagues,

 

Please become informed about this video that is scheduled to be released and consider signing this petition related to it if you feel compelled to do so.  The link is at the bottom of this email.

 

John Foubert

 

Description:

• target: CEO/Chairman of Universal Music Group (Doug Morris) and CEO of MTV (Judy McGrath)
• sponsored by: Coalition Against Trafficking in Women Australia; Collective Shout; Adios Barbie
• signature goal: 10,000
• signatures: 6,995

HipHopConnection.com has leaked a video teaser for the Kanye West hit song "Monster" and what we've seen is beyond disturbing. In just 30 seconds, viewers take in image after image of eroticized violence against women:
 
- Dead women, clad in lingerie, hang by chains around their necks.

- West makes sexual moves toward dead or drugged women propped up in a bed.

- A naked dead or drugged woman lays sprawled on a sofa.

If that's not enough, a behind-the-scenes clip of the video includes a semi-naked dead woman laying spread eagled on a table in front of Rick Ross as he eats a plate of raw meat. It is likely we can expect more brutal images in the full-length video.

The victims in this video are clearly women. Only women. And the men, Kanye West, Rick Ross, and Jay-Z are far from bothered by the female corpses. They seem to enjoy being surrounded by lifeless female bodies, apparent victims of a serial killing.

The official release date of the full-length video has not yet been announced. Let's make it clear to Universal Music Group, the controlling company of West's record label, Roc-A-Fella Records, and MTV that the music industry's portrayals of women's pain, suffering, abuse, objectification, and victimization as valid forms of entertainment are not acceptable.

http://apps.facebook.com/petitions/1/prevent-official-release-of-kanye-wests-women-hating-monster-video/

 

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John D. Foubert, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Anderson, Farris, and Halligan Professor of College Student Development

Oklahoma State University

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