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Originally posted by Sazare
I am acutely aware that her songs are not meant to be taken 100% seriously, but her lyrics still have very real implications and perpetuate regressive stereotypes, both about women and how they're to be treated. She is of course free to live her life as an oppressed '60s housewife, but when she makes songs for impressionable children, promoting these ugly standards for them to absorb, it's an issue.
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This logic comes straight from the fundamentalist christian playbook. "The media is corrupting the youth with hidden messages in music videos so we have to go on these witch hunts against mostly women who do things we dislike. Coz think of the children right?"
"You are free to live your life however you choose but don't you dare tell anyone about it because we really honestly seem to believe that all the progress we have made is so fragile that one music video threatens it."
I mean for goodness sake, grow up and learn to accept that not everyone buys into your opinions on what a "regressive stereotype" is.