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[quote=Anonymous]My 11 yo son likes Bruno Mars, Adele, John Legend, Drake, Sia... basically the usual Top 40 hits. My husband, a very middle class and non-macho WASP, has always loved rap, which I generally don’t like because of the misogyny. My husband thinks I'm too protective of our kids, and we've had many arguments in the past about how to discuss drugs, porn, crime around them (I’m much more conservative than he is on these things.) Anyway, yesterday, my husband and son got into a discussion about the merits of Cardi B vs Bruno Mars. My husband vehemently took Cardi B’s side, saying that he really admires her talent and tried to convince my son to listen to her more. So I looked up her lyrics to educate myself, and, as I suspected, they are so crude and misogynistic (yeah, she's a woman but so many women in pop culture just blindly take on the mens’ perspective.) Now I'm not sure what line I should walk here. I don't think this music will instantly evaporate my 11 yo son's brain, but I do think that a parent (especially father to son) endorsing those kinds of values just perpetuates misogyny and the attitude that being rude and crude is cool. And I’m not only thinking about my son in this scenario, but the many girls he will socialize with as a teen, and also of my own daughter, who is now 9 and will one day have to choose between being “sexy” and being comfortable in her own skin.

So: am I being unreasonable?[/quote]

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