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......Gender Relations in the Movie:
Some of the more subtle ways that males in the Hip-Hop community relate to women disrespectfully transcend even those specific characterizations, functioning as a barrier between men and women in general, even between men and those women they consider to be part of the most respectable category of women. Notwithstanding the excuse of immaturity, Tre Styles illustrates the relative lack of fundamental respect for females on the part of males by the way that he talks about his girlfriend Brandi
On one hand, Brandi represents the same type of respectable working professional woman as Tres mother, Reva. She is intelligent, responsible, studious, and dedicated to making something out of her life and accomplishing something meaningful through her academic studies. In that regard, Brandi represents exactly the type of women entitled to the highest level of respect from men. On the other hand, even though Tre is sincerely interested in her as potential future partner (and presumably, mother of his children), he speaks about pursuing sex with her very disrespectfully in the company of his male friends and refers to running game on her in conversations early on in the film......

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