"I have never been able to understand why women (though they may have nice bodies) allow themselves to be exploited and degraded in songs and videos.", says Erica Haley, a freshman computer science student at the University of Alabama.

"They're just going to regret it later.", she states.

"One day when the cameras are off and nature starts to disrupt the shapes of their bodies, they'll wish they spent their time developing something other than a reputation as a 'video girl'.

Erica and many girls like her, are examples of young women who haven't allowed an absent father, or bad male behavior to negatively influence their lifestyles. Their positive attitudes can also be attributed to the quality of mothers who raise level-headed daughters.

But over exposure to certain types of male behavior, such as being ridiculed, negatively labeled, or being made to feel inferior -- will often cause problems with low self-esteem and low self-image for many teenage girls.

As a footnote, we won't emphatically conclude that all women who participate in raunchy hip-hop videos, or those who repeatedly subject themselves to bad male behavior -- were at some point negatively influenced by a Black man.

But it does make you wonder.

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