WWW- good depth, use of theory and wider issues/debates
EBI- look again at McRobbie, would she oppose this video?
LR- consider again how Butler + McRobbie might respond to this video?
Well Butler's views are that traditional feminists are wrong to divide society into 'men' and 'women' and says gender is not biologically fixed. He believes that by dividing men and women, feminists accidently reinforced the idea of differences between the two genders.He says that male and female behaviour is socially constructed rather than the result of biology. Therefore in response to Robin's song and video of Blurred lines I believe he would be strongly against, as it's representing as females being some sort of dolls and they are allowing men to control them. The men have a higher authority in this video, as they are wearing suits but the women are depicted as the lower ones because they are either naked or wearing very little clothes.This is therefore how the behaviour is being constructed. And people view this as the same, because men are stereotypically head of the house and the bread winners, whereas the females are the housewives and have to listen to the men. This is showing that men, dominate over women and society are the ones that are depicting the difference between men and women therefore Butler would be against this video.
McRobbie highlights the empowering nature of magazines such as cosmopolitan and glamour, taking a different perspective to traditional feminists.
EBI- look again at McRobbie, would she oppose this video?
LR- consider again how Butler + McRobbie might respond to this video?
Well Butler's views are that traditional feminists are wrong to divide society into 'men' and 'women' and says gender is not biologically fixed. He believes that by dividing men and women, feminists accidently reinforced the idea of differences between the two genders.He says that male and female behaviour is socially constructed rather than the result of biology. Therefore in response to Robin's song and video of Blurred lines I believe he would be strongly against, as it's representing as females being some sort of dolls and they are allowing men to control them. The men have a higher authority in this video, as they are wearing suits but the women are depicted as the lower ones because they are either naked or wearing very little clothes.This is therefore how the behaviour is being constructed. And people view this as the same, because men are stereotypically head of the house and the bread winners, whereas the females are the housewives and have to listen to the men. This is showing that men, dominate over women and society are the ones that are depicting the difference between men and women therefore Butler would be against this video.
McRobbie highlights the empowering nature of magazines such as cosmopolitan and glamour, taking a different perspective to traditional feminists.
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