redbrunja: (I'm A Free Bitch Baby)
redbrunja ([personal profile] redbrunja) wrote2010-05-04 06:28 pm

So Damn Easy To Love

 
"Why Don't You Love Me" - Beyoncé from Beyoncé on Vimeo.

Conforms to damaging sexual norms/feminist critique of the most common ways women try to please men and their inherent fail? Discuss.

[identity profile] mewsrissicat.livejournal.com 2010-05-05 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
I remember reading it and thinking, "What? WHAT?" Because even at 16, I knew that a good marriage (something my parents certainly did NOT have) wasn't made by turning yourself into your man's door mat.

I'm sure that the book was written as backlash the feminism movement. But, WHUT...

Is she undercutting it? Because as hyper-sexualized as she appears in the vid - she still ends up broken on the floor.

[identity profile] meganbmoore.livejournal.com 2010-05-05 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
And consistently more miserable and "ragged" throughout the video. It's very much a steady, constant wearing down and destructive spiral.

[identity profile] mewsrissicat.livejournal.com 2010-05-05 10:28 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, exactly. There's a not so subtle undercurrent of anger and despair at the concept of using sex and sexuality to to hold onto someone... (domestic whoredom, anyone?)... and ultimately failing.

[identity profile] redbrunja.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I think so, but clearly not everyone agrees. And as I rewatch, it feels more and more feminist.