At my age gender is not much of an issue as it is an amazing changing kaleidoscope of new to old=old to new. I see things today that we very much there in the sixties. The songs I selected are a mix of pop, rap, and country. Each song shows sex and gender ideals that are either impossible to live up to or just plain a disappointment of expectations. There is no one who can live up to the modle of female and male ideals that the U.S. society has and will probably always set fort as the perfect man or woman as the case may be. I would like to see just ordinary people pictured in the songs, but that won't happen because ordinary does not sell. Sex sells!! These songs are sex, and gender ordered the one I especially like is A Boy Named Sue. What a bad thing to do to your son when being masculine is such an issue now-a-days. I also, like She Let Herself Go. It is about what a woman can do without a man to hold her back, and yet she made herself over into the picture of the beautiful women that society says we must work hard to be. Some of the songs I just like and listen to them occasionally. When I get to feel sorry for my self I listen to the Overnight Male by George Strait and soon find I am happy to be right where I am in my life. I hope you like my list and will let me know what you think.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
2/21 wk. 5 Gender Songs
There is a lot of put down in some of these songs and they all present a stereotype of man or woman that is what our society see as what men and women should be. Some give bad messages and some give good images, but all give impossible expectations to the humans listening to them.
At my age gender is not much of an issue as it is an amazing changing kaleidoscope of new to old=old to new. I see things today that we very much there in the sixties. The songs I selected are a mix of pop, rap, and country. Each song shows sex and gender ideals that are either impossible to live up to or just plain a disappointment of expectations. There is no one who can live up to the modle of female and male ideals that the U.S. society has and will probably always set fort as the perfect man or woman as the case may be. I would like to see just ordinary people pictured in the songs, but that won't happen because ordinary does not sell. Sex sells!! These songs are sex, and gender ordered the one I especially like is A Boy Named Sue. What a bad thing to do to your son when being masculine is such an issue now-a-days. I also, like She Let Herself Go. It is about what a woman can do without a man to hold her back, and yet she made herself over into the picture of the beautiful women that society says we must work hard to be. Some of the songs I just like and listen to them occasionally. When I get to feel sorry for my self I listen to the Overnight Male by George Strait and soon find I am happy to be right where I am in my life. I hope you like my list and will let me know what you think.
At my age gender is not much of an issue as it is an amazing changing kaleidoscope of new to old=old to new. I see things today that we very much there in the sixties. The songs I selected are a mix of pop, rap, and country. Each song shows sex and gender ideals that are either impossible to live up to or just plain a disappointment of expectations. There is no one who can live up to the modle of female and male ideals that the U.S. society has and will probably always set fort as the perfect man or woman as the case may be. I would like to see just ordinary people pictured in the songs, but that won't happen because ordinary does not sell. Sex sells!! These songs are sex, and gender ordered the one I especially like is A Boy Named Sue. What a bad thing to do to your son when being masculine is such an issue now-a-days. I also, like She Let Herself Go. It is about what a woman can do without a man to hold her back, and yet she made herself over into the picture of the beautiful women that society says we must work hard to be. Some of the songs I just like and listen to them occasionally. When I get to feel sorry for my self I listen to the Overnight Male by George Strait and soon find I am happy to be right where I am in my life. I hope you like my list and will let me know what you think.
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