Letters to the Editor
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Pot-Kettle (corrected format)
another bitter Manhattan feminazi.
I can hardly even imagine anything more pathetically hypocritical than you calling other people bitter.
...Unless, of course, I were to criticize someone for not previewing their post to check formatting. :o
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I guess I'm not clear...
...on why these dolls would be a problem, while the Bratz dolls are everywhere. Is it because while the Bratz dolls promote a really weird kind of tween sexual image they do so while also promoting consumerism (like Barbie), while the Pussycat Dolls Dolls would not have enough accessories to teach young girls that happiness only comes from buying clothes, purses and shoes?
Can somebody give me a hand here?
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Riff-Off
The real crime here is that these no-talent hacks have been ripping off Sir-Mix-A-Lot's material, mutilating his work, and then vomiting it back out on us with absolutely no shame that we might recognize them for the biters that they are.
I thought the song was a rip off of "Glamorous Life" by Sheila E...Did Sir Mix-a-lot rip that off? I ws appalled today to hear some hip-hop song that take a riff from The Waitresses "I Know What Boys Like" - I hope they got paid for that...
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not group sex ...
It really annoys me that the author refers to group sex when the song actually isn't about that as far as I can tell from the lyrics. It's a typical straw man way of constructing an argument that creates titillation at the expense of accuracy. Accuracy? BORING. Isn't it a lot more fun to imagine an evil bad old world out there that's trying to sell little girls on group sex and then arguing against it? No, it's a lots more depressing 1. if it were true which it aint and 2. that the author doesn't care - so much so that at the end of the article she says 'oh it's not about group sex ... oh well.' !!! This is not good writing, nor is it good journalism. It's just a way to create an attention grabbing headline.
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Hack
I have to admit that although "Don't Cha" is as catchy as hell and was stuck in my head while writing the post about Hasbro's Pussycat Dolls' dolls, I had never paid much attention to the lyrics. The New York Daily News reported that the song "featured lyrics about group sex," which, as Brad in the letters section points out, probably refers to a single line: "But I know she aint gon' wanna share."
Whoa, so Broadsheet writers can turn in articles without even investigating the subject? I'd say low journalistic standards at a popular feminist web-mag is more threatening to feminism than a bunch of dolls.
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Thank you, Amy (and Sarah)
For the best sentence of the day: <<There is a gigantic difference between a 4 year old playing pretty pretty princess with an impossibly thin Barbie and playing pretty pretty pole dancer with an impossibly thin Pussycat Doll.>>
I don't have children, just cats. To my "little princess" (Skye, 10-month-old Turkish Angora), it wouldn't much matter. She'd just drag either the pretty princess or the pole dancer around the house by her hair.
How much ya wanna bet Lisa Flythe runs for local office?
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Subject of song
In brief, the song is about this woman telling this guy he wishes his girlfriend were as awesome as her. In the end, the women backs off and tells him that she's not going to steal him, because what they have isn't love and she isn't about to break up his relationship -- and hurt his girlfriend -- for that.
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And btw, what is wrong with group sex?
Even if the song were about group sex, is it any worse than 2-person sex? Would you be more upset with your child for having group sex or 2-person sex?
Is 10-year-old girls playing group sex with their dolls any worse than them playing 2-person sex?
*shrug*
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Gee, thank goodness it's not about group sex...
No, the Pussycat Dolls' song isn't about group sex. It's merely another in a long line of women-dissing-other-women-to-get-male-attention songs. It also has the lovely element of women pimping sexual exhibitionism -- not as an expression of their real sexuality -- but again as a way to get men's attention. It's Girls Gone Wild set to stripper-disco.
The very first moment I heard, "Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me? Don't you wish your girlfriend was a freak like me?" I started to get depressed...again.
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Just a guess...
I think that any woman who has dealt with infidelity would not be a huge fan of this song. I didn't even realize that the "narrator" so graciously refrains from breaking up the relationship referred to in this song until reading these letters because I could never hear more than 10 seconds of this song without getting pissed off and depressed.
Another depressing aspect of this song to me is the way that these singers/personas/characters or whatever are treating sexual expression like some sort of competition. You want a man, so you gotta reframe his girlfriend as the Frigid Prude? Okay, so a girl has to be "freakier" and "rawer" than the next woman to hold a man's attention? We've all got to be scantily clad burlesque dancers? Does a woman no longer deserve lasting love if she's too vanilla? Where does it end? Where is there room to just be oneself?
I'm probably overthinking what should just be a catchy pop song. And NO, I don't think that young girls should be emulating anything about this group, from their clothes to the message of their biggest hit. Most of grade school/middle school/high school is just one big game of "Don't cha" (but not explicitly sexual). As in "Don't cha wish your parents bought you clothes like mine?" and "Don't cha wish that my friends would acknowledge you in public?" and "Don't cha wish you could get a date to save your life?" Ugh, forget it.
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Why you are a bitch, LeCastor
The sad thing for you is that now you won't be able to buy any of these dolls, since they're the only "women" that could ever stand your company.
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Group sex vs two person sex
>Even if the song were about group sex, is it any worse than 2-person sex? Would you be more upset with your child for having group sex or 2-person sex?
Is 10-year-old girls playing group sex with their dolls any worse than them playing 2-person sex?
I hope you're kidding. I hope for all young people that their sexual awakening/learning goes as follows: 1. Learning about their own bodies and desires. 2. Learning about sharing and mutuality with one other person. 3. Optional: discovering all the highways and bi ways of desire and sexual expression. I would only ever condone group sex if my daughter was a very assertive and empowered person, which before the age of 30 is fairly unlikely.