Letters to the Editor
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Bad Barbie!
Jeez--can we let up on the tired ol' Barbie-bashing? How in hell did I grow up with a Barbie collection fine enough to sell several years ago at rather a nice profit--they're très collectible--and still manage to be a dark-haired, short-legged career woman with reasonable self-esteem and a PhD? Surely Barbie worked to undermine all those things! Guess Mattel or Hasbro or whoever makes her had better work harder at the mind-control thing--I clearly slipped through the net.
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group sex?
I just read the lyrics to that song. Please explain how it relates to 'group sex.' I must be missing something.
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to wit:
Show me the 'group sex' part:
I know you like me (I know you like me)
I know you do (I know you do)
Thats why whenever I come around shes all over you
And I know you want it (I know you want it)
It's easy to see (it's easy to see)
And in the back of your mind
I know you should be home with me
Dont cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me
Dont cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me
Dont cha, dont cha
Dont cha wish your girlfriend was raw like me
Dont cha wish your girlfriend was fun like me
Dont cha, dont cha
Fight the feeling (fight the feeling)
Leave it alone (leave it alone)
Cause if it aint love
It just aint enough to leave a happy home
Let's keep it friendly (let's keep it friendly)
You have to play fair (you have to play fair)
See, I dont care
But I know she aint gon' wanna share
See, I know she loves you (I know she loves you)
I understand (I understand)
I'd probably be just as crazy about you
If you were my own man
Maybe next lifetime (maybe next lifetime)
Possibly (possibly)
Until then, Oh friend your'e secret is safe with me
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Is it really group sex or an orgy if there is only one guy?
since I'm pretty sure that is what is being referred to. I guess technically it's a group of three, but then two is also technically a group.
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I want a Pussycat Doll!
Jerks! Hey I like that song Don't Cha, it's quite feminist and respectful actually. Let's look at say an office fling, the woman knows her co-worker likes her, but he's married. She's seen the wife with the man and knows the wife loves the man so it's in essence a woman telling a man look, I know you like me and wish your wife did stuff like me. But the fact remains that she loves you so I'm going to be fair and not hurt this woman because at this time you have a crush on me.
If only more people were more respectful of other peoples relationships. I know a couple of women who are currently in affairs and they justify it to themselves by talking about how fat, bad parent, boring or shallow the wife is and that gives them the right to participate in hurting someone they barely know. I'm getting my orgasms, who cares about her humilation or pain! Here are the lyrics minus the chorus. The line about sharing when looking at it in context is that I know your woman would not be happy to find out you want to get with me because she loves you and doesn't want to share, not that she's into a threesome! She's saying I don't love you so I don't care if you're with other people, but that woman will. Sometimes I am kinda scared when major news organizations can't even comprehend a freaking pop song.
I know you like me (I know you like me)
I know you do (I know you do)
Thats why whenever I come around shes all over you
And I know you want it (I know you want it)
It's easy to see (it's easy to see)
And in the back of your mind
I know you should be home with me
Fight the feeling (fight the feeling)
Leave it alone (leave it alone)
Cause if it aint love
It just aint enough to leave a happy home
Let's keep it friendly (let's keep it friendly)
You have to play fair (you have to play fair)
See, I dont care
But I know she aint gon' wanna share
See, I know she loves you (I know she loves you)
I understand (I understand)
I'd probably be just as crazy about you
If you were my own man
Maybe next lifetime (maybe next lifetime)
Possibly (possibly)
Until then, Oh friend your'e secret is safe with me
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to LeCastor
For one thing, i'm wearing a knee-length skirth and a sweater that shows my elbows. And you know what? 100 years ago in victorian england, i would probably be considered to be dressed like a "whore." in fact, those "whores" from yesteryear probably were actually wearing more clothes than modest little old me is wearing right now.
In most Muslim countries, you could wear a dress to your ankles and wrists and if your head is uncovered your dressed like a whore.
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Maybe?
I won't say this is necessarily it, and this isn't in all the lyrics things I found Googling it. I've never heard the song, I have no interest in hearing the song, and translating 'black rapper' into 'actual English' (this is one of the portions of the song done by Busta Rhymes) is not my forte. But there is a bit that goes like this:
I got a idea that's dope for y'all
As y'all could get so I could hit the both of y'all
And I think that *could* be construed as saying something about wanting to sleep with them both simultaneously.
Possibly.
As it is, reading this, I'm not even sure that the lyrics have actual meaning. They've got songs called 'Don't Cha' and 'Stick Wit U'. And people want to claim English is the national language?
I'm beginning to think their grammar is setting a worse example than anything else.
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Barbie is just another Pussycat
...but that's no reason to shrug and look the other way while marketers saturate the market with hypersexualized toys targeted at pre-tweens. Even the name "Pussycat Dolls" has a wink-wink sexuality to it that is beyond the true comprehension of pre-tweens, and thus inappropriate. Can you imagine an 8 year old wearing an "Pussycat" t-shirt across her undeveloped bosom? It's just wrong. If girls old enough to buy their own clothes with money they've earned want to wear such stuff, fine. I don't agree with very young girls zeroing in on their attractiveness as the reason/way to get attention, but I also understand the desire of an adolescent girl to test her desirability in such seeeminly 'safe' ways as clothing choices (though the actual 'safety' of marketing oneself in hypersexualized clothing from an early age is debatable). But to market this shit to impresisonable little girls who will be only to glad to tart themselves up like tiny streetwalkers in the name of style and fashion is just wrong.
Barbie's existence shouldn't justify the Pussycat Dolls dolls existence - if anything, the opposite should hold true; our new awareness and standards of what is reasonable and appropriate should be used to dismanatle institutions like Barbie.