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The Modern Day Jezebel
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The Modern Day Jezebel
By:Nirell Buck
The Impact
What is a Jezebel?
-The 2019 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report states that Black women are launching new companies at a pace that is six times higher than the national average.
- Many influencers manage these enterprises, utilizing their platform to market their goods and services to a sizable and attentive audience.
-A behind-the-scenes look into the lives of Atlanta's top influencers, including Jayda, Ari, Arrogant Tae, Lakeya, Dess Dior, and more.
-The "Jezebel" stereotype, originated historically in the United States and has undergone changes over time.
-During slavery, the Jezebel stereotype first appeared and was used to defend the sexual exploitation of Black women.
- The slavery-era Jezebel, it was claimed, desired sexual relations with white men; therefore, white men did not have to rape black women. Someone who uses sex to manipulate men.
Impact of Jezebel
-This stereotype still exists in modern times in a number of forms, including several representations in hip-hop culture.
- The terms "hoe" and "gold-digger" have the potential of spreading negative assumptions about Black women, objectifying them and ignoring their uniquenes
Impact of social media
Stop making it about sex
Conclusion
- The growing influence of social media on women's opinions of their bodies and their self-worth in the modern world.
- Social media platforms are widely used, and as a result, people are continuously exposed to well chosen photos that frequently present unattainable beauty standards.
Black Feminist Opinions
Black females have always been sexualized. A women can love herself, dressing up for themselves, wearing makeup, these are all things that are oversexualized. A female does not do these things for men or sex.
The world Jezebel depicted Black women as hypersexual, promiscuous, and lacking in morality, reinforcing harmful and dehumanizing beliefs
Me as a black women in social media, i have experienced negative impact and being told me as a curvy female can be sexualized at times when I Choose to dress up.
"Jezebel excused miscegenation, the sexual exploitation of Black women," - Ula Taylor
"Like their enslaved sistren, free women could not escape the harmful consequences of these myths,and as reformers,mthey organized agaisnt racial and sexual opperssion simultaneuosly," -Ula Taylor