It's Demeaning... No Matter Who Says It

Farely recently a song was released called Blurred Lines by the artist Robin Thicke. Anyone who has heard it and knows anything about it knows that this song caused lots of commotion with people all around the world, and rightfully so. This song has awful lyrics and is completely demeaning to women.

So often songs that we hear on the radio or t.v. have such harsh meaning behind them and so much of the time we overlook how awful and demeaning the lyrics of those songs are. So in the case of Blurred Lines, I think it was very appropriate that people were outraged by the lyrics and the meaning behind them. As a female, most people would expect me to also be outraged about this song, but it may surprise you however that this doesn't bother that much. Now before you stop reading let me explain why. This doesn't bother me because there is something that bothers me a lot more.

So often females point out the songs that men are singing and say how demeaning they are to women, but then they go ranting and raving about a song a female singer is writing that is just as demeaning. For example there's a songs called Sleazy by Kesha which says "And I don't wanna go places where all my ladies can't go in, just grab a bottle, some boys and let's take it back to my basement and get sleazy". In songs like this women are just demeaning and disrespecting themselves. In this song they are  practically saying that their just objects that give guys a good time. They aren't showing themselves any self respect whatsoever.  And the really sad thing is that there is so much worse then this out there. Some songs have such vulgar lyrics that I wouldn't feel comfortable even writing them just to give an example or make a point. What appals me the most is that these songs are written by women speaking these awful things about themselves and all of their very own gender.

Why do people think it makes such a big difference when women is saying these things then when a man is, or that it makes it okay? Just because a women is the one saying these things doesn't make it any less demeaning. If anything, personally I think it makes is more demeaning because she is disrespecting herself and all the other women around her and listening to her music. Women, expecially those who are young need to have good influences in their lives. Ones who tell them about their true worth and actually care about them, not ones who are just singing anything (no matter how cruel and wrong) to make money and become popular in the music business.