I am taking notes/quoting from this website: https://junkee.com/bitches-aint-shit-on-sex-gender-and-hip-hop-in-straight-outta-compton-and-dope2/64996
Discrimination:
“In rightly demonstrating how racism, hatred and fear result in the oppression of African American men, Straight Outta Compton unwittingly illustrates another reality: the crippling cycle of victimisation, harassment and abuse that marginalises women of colour, and LGBTIQ individuals.”
Women:
“The selective, revisionist history has been widely discussed, and should come as no surprise. Dr. Dre’s multiple recorded physical assaults against women are swept off the screen and under the rug in a film that’s mostly devoid of female characters altogether. On the rare occasion that women do appear, they’re nagging mothers, suspicious girlfriends, or bikini-clad groupies who get ejected from hotel gangbangs by gun-toting millionaire MCs, with a heavy-handed “Bye Felicia!” punchline. / N.W.A. didn’t get called “the world’s most dangerous group” for nothing. But calling out police corruption, then spitting “give ‘em a Tootsie Roll and tell ‘em thanks for the pussy hole” does seem like the work of self-fulfilling prophets, preaching opposing ideals of equality and misogyny.”
“It {hip hop} also conveys to me what it might feel like to experience a world of social persecution I will never be subjected to. I’m not Sandra Bland, Kindra Chapman, Joyce Curnell, Ralkina Jones, Alexis McGovern, or Raynetta Turner. But I live in their world, where sexism exists on a continuum, and the endemic denigration of women for entertainment continues to feed both casual and ceremonial misogyny. / For every ‘Fuck Tha Police’ there’s a ‘A Bitch Iz A Bitch’ further entrenching hateful objectification. So if you see Straight Outta Compton or Dope, celebrate films that acknowledge black lives matter — but question who’s conspicuously missing from the bigger picture.”
Georgia Newman - Media Studies 