Did they purposely give that guy a huge bulge?
Doesn't look that big to me.
Sorry to be salacious, but you can't pass that up. They probably did though -- the song's a lot deeper than the imagery in the video, but both are pretty obviously sexual. It's why the song resonated with me. It came out when I was 17 (I think). A lot of music is about sex, a lot of it is about discovering sex and sexuality, but almost all of it is from a
man's (or boy's) perspective. This was the first time I'd heard a contemporary woman sing overtly about sex in a way I could directly relate to.
This is more to the point I was trying to make,
@HaventGotALife , about misogyny being worse in the past and hidden by "politeness". Part of equality is representation. All your love songs are lovely, but love exists independently of gender equality: you don't fix sexism by "men defin[ing] women as someone to date, someone to marry, someone to love." That's the
opposite of feminism. It's horrible, actually. It's just candy-coated sexism. It may not look or feel like sexism to you, but that's exactly what it is: it's still defining women by men's standards rather than letting them define themselves
as people.
Misogyny is not fixed with love songs and clean lyrics. It is fixed with Shirley Manson spreading her legs wide and singing "
Unprotected, God, I'm pregnant, damn the consequences." By Gwen Stefani singing, "
So leave a message and I'll call you back", Joan Jett singing, "
I don't give a damn about my bad reputation".
By Destiny's Child singing in harmony "
say my name".
If you want feminism, from a woman's perspective, "When I Grow Up", "Spiderwebs", "Bad Reputation", "Say My Name". Those are feminist songs.
All of his stuff is really lovely.
