Sources II - V
Beyonce is one of the better representations of the
modern day woman, however she isn’t the greatest. First off she if of African American descent
and therefore she does not fall into the ‘mythical norm’. Also she has recently become a mother and is
still working on her career. She helps
represent those women who want to find a balance between family and their
jobs. However I feel they shouldn’t look
up to her because the modern day woman’s issue with children is that it’s too
expensive to raise a child. Beyonce
doesn’t have that issue because she is part of a superstar couple worth
hundreds of millions. So women are stuck
with two choices: get married, have children, be a stay at home mom, let the
man be in charge; or get a job, grow your career, make enough money to raise
children but find out you’re as barren as a desert by then.
Looking at her career we see she got her start in one of
the most popular girl groups of the late 20th and early 21st
century. Girl groups were all for female
empowerment, at least that’s what I thought.
Now it’s all about looking hot, being sexy, and selling as many records
as you can. Take for example Beyonce’s
song “Run The World (Girls)”, it’s all about the empowerment of women. Some of the song lyrics are “I'm repping for
the girls who taking over the world help me raise a glass for the college grads...Boy
you know you love it how we're smart enough to make these millions/Strong
enough to bear the children then get back to business”(Source I). So Beyonce is basically saying for girls to
go get an education, become the top dog of a company, and yay I’m rooting for
you because you are in charge. However
when I watch the video for this song I become completely discouraged. She is half naked and shaking her stuff all
over the screen, not to mention the rest of the females in the video. This is just deducing women back down to
their bodies, making them sex-crazed animals.
Now this goes with saying she is not
like Nicki Minaj trying to turn herself into ‘Barbie’. Beyonce is more like I’m hot, I’m fit, and I
feel wonderful with my body. Whereas
Nicki is more like look at me I have large breasts and a large ass, and I’m the
type of girl every guy wants. Therefore
in this sense Beyonce is a better representation of women. She is showing females that feeling great
about your body is about satisfying yourself and not about pleasing as many
people as you can. She is a real woman
staying true to her body, unlike Minaj who is being fake with all the work she
has had done.
Therefore Beyonce represents working
women and those women who feel good about their bodies. However she misrepresents them in the sense
that she has more money and in turn has more time to focus on being healthy as
well as focusing on building her family and career.
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