Blog 5

I went to playlist.com and made a playlist, but could not figure out how to put it on here! I tried everything!!

So, here are my songs:

Men Don't Change by Amy Dalley
Stupid Boy by Keith Urban
How Do I Live Without You by Leanne Rimes
Think Before He Cheats by Carrie Underwood
Unfaithful by Rihanna
Addicted by Saving Able
What's Left of Me by Nick Lachey
Ticks by Brad Paisley
Beautiful Soul by Jesse McCartney

Many of these songs are different yet also similar and have to do with a reoccuring theme that I find throughout gender. A lot of the songs I chose were by female artists who were singing about independence. They also were about how men treat women. The songs Men Don't Change, Stupid Boy, Think Before He Cheats, and Unfaithful are all songs about cheating and heartbreak. These songs are all filled with a lot of emotional language and strong messages. I listed these songs because I feel that they portray what a lot of people feel about the opposite sex and gender in our society today. These songs are also filled with stereotypes of how a man or a woman is supposed to act in a relationship. When I was listening to "Stupid Boy" by Keith Urban these words stood out: "She didn't even know she had a choice...when the only voice she heard was telling her she can't". So in this song, the man is telling his girlfriend that she can't do something. I feel that in our society, boyfriends tell their girlfriends what they can or can't do all the time and I think this is wrong. The songs Ticks and Addicted are both about physically being with a woman and these songs can be taken either in a good way or bad way. Personally, I think that these songs are offensive to women because it makes women sound like they are easy to be taken advantage of. Lastly, I put the song "Beautiful Soul" by Jesse McCartney because it shows that men can be respectful towards women.

In chapter 7, hooks discusses how the feminists were mostly upper class white women who were extremely involved and typicalled housewives. However, the lower middle class women could not stay at the home and had to go out and find a job to survive. Women were often given "dirty" jobs and that is why the upper class women did not want to work. I think that most women today see the job of as a "housewife" as a luxury because they enjoy being at home and taking care of kids. I feel that many women just enjoy the freedom that they have the choice to stay at home.