Princeton Students Protest Rapper Big Sean for Promoting Rape Culture

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Princeton University students are mounting aprotest against a performance by rapper Big Sean, who is scheduled to headline "Lawn Parties," anoutdoor festival on campus in the Spring, citing the musician for"promoting rape culture and misogyny."

Ina petition that asks the school"s student government to rescind theinvitation to the artist, juniorDuncan Hosie andseniorRebecca Balsaduawrite,"in the future, [the undergraduate student government]should strive to bring non-misogynistic acts to campus." Hosie and Balsadua told the Daily Princetonian that close to500 people have signed the petition.

Hosie said he saw a promotional video for the performance in which Big Sean rapped "stupid a*s b***h," became outraged, andtook to the Internet. After I saw that video, I started researching Big Seans language and I found language that was both misogynistic and homophobic, Hosie told the Princetonian. Balsadua said the university should have chosen another rapper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3RjIAezYlw

Im sure every singer has a questionable song, but there are a significant amount of his songs that deal with this and I think there are a lot of other artists in the same genre even that would have been a better choice, she said. Hmm.

The studentssaid they were not responsible for fliers that popped up on campus urging students to protest the show.""If she look good, she pay me in s*x,"" read the fliers, quoting Big Sean"s song Dance (A$$) (hopefully the Nicki Minaj remix), adding: "Want to take this down? Take down Big Sean."

Big Seanis just the latest celebrityto face the ire of student activists. Recent offenders of the sensibility of college students include comedian Bill Maher, ChristineLagarde, the head of theInternational Monetary Fund, andAmerican Enterprise Institute fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali, all of whom were the targets of protests after being picked to speak atcommencement ceremonies.

Gumption aside, it does not seem as if this particular crusade will work. The contracts are signed and its unrealistic to stop this from happening,said Simon Wu, the chairman of the student government"s social committee, in the Princetonian. Wu said the university may set up a panel at the Women"s Center to discussmisogyny in lyrics. For anyone at the festival looking to avoid being affected by Big Sean"s sexism, there"s always unlimited alcohol.

(Corrects spelling of Christine Lagarde"s name.)

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-08/princeton-students-protest-rapper-big-sean-for-promoting-rape-culture