Where Does Entertainment End and Misogyny Begin?

For many Misogyny is placed in a neat and tidy bow and tucked away. Whether it is labelled as religion, cultural beliefs or simply an expected way of life, is it something that should be accepted as a norm? Many people don't realise that a woman does not have to be killed, raped or beaten to feel a misogynistic blow. Turn on the television and watch the music videos and movies and even some adult cartoons (Family Guy). Many times women are degraded, in very skimpy clothes, gyrating to explicit lyrics. These lyrics are not always of a sexual nature, they at times refer to physical harm of women or should I say hoes and bitches.
http://www.progressiveu.org/misogyny_hiphop
http://feministblogs.org/tag/misogyny/




A prime example is Eminem's rap called Kim (his ex-wife) where he vividly goes through stages of violence against her culminating in her death. This sexist and misogynistic way of thinking and acting may reflect the values in our present society. Woman are seen as bitches, whores, sluts, tricks
etc. It can be argued that these lyrics are not meant to be taken literally. If that is so, why are these degrading labels used so frequently? Are these lyrics indicative of things that men would like to do to women?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jackson-kat/eminem-mysogyny-and-the-s_b_211677.html







Why did the ripper clearly not follow the norms of society and hide away his hatred of women? Or like the more creative among us do, write a screenplay or a rap. Not because one thinks something means they have to act on it, what was his trigger? As there is no knowledge of who he really was, there is no profile into his family structure. We clearly can't start pointing the finger at his mother, who knows, she may have died in child birth. My point being, we can speculate all we want about the 'why'. I noticed that apart from all his victims being prostitues, all but his last victim had similar physical characteristics, around the same height and age, similar stature and and dark hair. Mary Kelly is the only one with blonde hair and blue eyes

and she was younger than the rest. What was it about her that caught Jack's eye?
Unlike the entertainment factory that we have these days that tells us exactly why these serial killers kill, we have no idea what made Jack tick besides his obvious distaste for whores. For publicised serial killers, where does the entertainment factor they produce end and their misogyny begin, is it one in the same? Meaning, are we all to some extent misogynists because we find these killers so facinating? Of course not, but that's something to think about.