Rihanna’s music videos are a master class in misandry

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'This isn’t Rihanna’s first murder. She walks through a strip club’s red velvet curtains in her new (and NSFW—again, this is a strip club) music video “Needed Me,” holding a gun with a silencer. She has a practiced hand. In the backroom, she hits her mark, a man who throws a wad of cash towards her. One shot and he crumples. Two, he falls to the floor. She fires a third for good measure.
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Though these depictions of murder are the most explicit crimes against men committed therein, Rihanna’s entire visual discography is actually a master class in misandry. Not in how to hate men, per se (and certainly not in how to literally murder them), but in how to act like they really, truly could not matter less to you. If there’s anything Rihanna doesn’t give a fuck about in her videos, it’s men.

From the very beginning of Rihanna’s career, misandry has bubbled under the surface. In her first music video, “Pon de Replay,” Rihanna is the boss. The first words out of her mouth are “I’ll make him turn it up.” Rihanna, rebuking a man for doing his job poorly. She then finds a raised platform in the middle of the dance floor and dances alone for the rest of the song. Some men can be seen in the shadows beneath her, but that’s as close to the spotlight as they’ll ever get.
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One of Rihanna’s greatest acts of misandry is that she sometimes excises men from her story entirely. If she allows them to remain, they function as little more than props, like in the 2006 video for “SOS,” in which a man passively allows Rihanna to grind up against him and use his arm for balance while she spins.

In 2010’s “Only Girl in the World,” Rihanna is singing—presumably to a man—about how lucky she is. But there are no men in the video. “No men here,” she seems to say. “I am the only girl in the world and there are no men and everything is just dancing in my personal desert utopia!”'