Monday, October 13, 2014

Stupid Girls?


          Pink's 2006 song "Stupid Girl", is a song wherein Pink describes her disdain for the way that girls today act. She wonders "where'd all the smart people go", after wondering where the dreams of a girl president went. Pink even mentions that the girls are "dancing in a video next to 50 Cent", bringing up the problem with objectification of women in Hip Hop videos. The video shows a young girl watching all the "stupid girls" and Pink making fun of them in throughout. At the end, the young girls decides to go play football rather than play with her dolls. However, the problem with both the song and the video is that Pink is mentioning the choices of the girls' as though it is all their fault. She blames the girls for being "stupid" and making themselves into sexual objects, and fails to mention society's impact on their actions and choices.

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