this is terribly regressive...
and, remarkably, nobody has said it yet. there's some dumbass mras kneejerking to it, without stopping to realize how remarkably anti-feminist this is, to the point that it's arguably worse than the 60s music it's ripping on.
please don't let your daughters listen to this pro-patriarchal shit, and please take the time to talk to them about it if you see them being brainwashed by it.
dear future owner,
it'll be nice if you don't beat me.
subserviently yours, meghan trainor
Alyssa W
Ya.. but, thank god, it takes many types to live in this world. If this is her dream, and if anyone else wants to buy into it, so be it. As long as the rest of us can live more or less completely different lifestyles, and arn't oppressed.. no harm, right? *shrug.
deathtokoalas
the funny thing about oppression is that it's mostly a perception.
i don't really care about meghan trainor's personal life decisions, i'm more concerned about the renormalization of female domestication that this furthers without seeming to realize it. the message of the song is that the existing hierarchy is acceptable so long as it produces certain concessions. that's a big step backwards for social progress, and a big victory for the status quo.
it'd be one thing if it was some kid in her basement, it's another when it's media that is mass marketed to children with the explicit purpose of expounding a worldview.
also, to clarify: the play here is on 60s girl groups, like the supremes. this does not sound like music from the 1950s. whatever journalist initially wrote that had no idea what they were talking about....
