and now, utter frivolity

bookbat:

I have heard three separate people “critique” Call Me Maybe recently on the grounds that it’s not actually crazy to give a dude your phone number, and like, why are you so passive, Carly Rae Jepsen, is it because you are uncritically accepting your societally assigned feminine role, yes that is the answer, I have solved the bad gender politics of Call Me Maybe, congratulations me. And man, I am just SO GLAD that we’re deploying our High Level Feminist Analytical Skills against the awkward giggliness of teenage girls. So glad.

WHAT

I literally don’t understand. I mean, sure, let’s talk about the gender politics of the way Carly Rae Jepsen’s been presented/marketed, but analyses of pop songs that involve literal interpretations of the lyrics are the Lowest Form of Cultural Criticism.

(Source: luria-p)

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   WHAT I literally don’t understand. I mean, sure, let’s talk about the gender politics of the way Carly Rae Jepsen’s been...

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11. novazembla said: oh ffs. they could just as easily call it unfeminist of her to give her number out like that, doesn’t she have any concern for her own safety, blah blah blah, set it all on fire
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