I love this take on the seemingly endless array of songs that tell women that they dont know theyre beautiful and thats what makes them beautiful! Drives me a bit crazy as I have tried to explain to Gabi what it all means while one of these tunes comes on in the car. You never hear a female singing about loving a guy because he doesnt know hes good looking! ;-) This writer makes some good points. Am I mad at John Legend (and those in his camp) for writing a song attempting to undo the damages of years of his own industry’s sins? No. Of course not. But I’d still rather he didn’t, and here’s why: These songs, which presume to assure women that they are attractive (and, by extension, worthwhile), assume that the singer’s relationship to our bodies overrules our relationship with them. All of our primping — our “fixing makeup, just so” — has a pointed objective, namely to be found attractive by men. And allegedly, what a relief to find out we don’t need to be doing any of it at all! If a woman doesn’t believe she is beautiful, the solution isn’t a man telling her she’s wrong. If women have been groomed to believe that they need to look a specific way to succeed in the world, you can trust that those beliefs are so internalized and wide-ranging as to require far more than male approval and acceptance to be undone. buzzfeed/ariannarebolini/stop-singing-songs-about-women-who-dont-know-theyre-beautifu
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 19:43:24 +0000
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