Man! I Feel Like A Woman!

Its not a matter of superiority. It's a matter of knowing when to just let loose and have fun without worrying about when your next meeting is or what the next deadline is. It's about forgetting about all the social expectations of a woman and just"really go wild" and "doing it in style".

The music video for this song is a parody of Robert Palmer's 'Simply Irresistible', where beautiful women dopily bop along behind him, all looking very similar, half-playing their prop guitars. Shania Twain gender-flips this whole scenario, which looks so much more profoundly silly when men do it, and this adds to my reading of the song.

In this, it seems like Shania Twain is having a bit of a laugh at men for their inability to, in a culturally normal way, go out and just let their hair down and have some fun.

"The best thing about being a woman Is the prerogative to have a little fun" - as if to say that is a prerogative that men miss out on in this case - going out to dance with the girls and just have a messy girls night.

It's, to me, kind of about embracing the ability of women culturally to be silly and frivilous, because when that dopey stereotype of women is so normalised in society, as in 'Simply Irresistible', women get the freedom to behave a bit bonkers, and she seems to note that men are deprived of this freedom, because they've painted themselves into a corner as being 'serious', 'masculine' and having 'authority'. While this was supposed to increase their power, they find themselves powerless to have the kind of fun Shania is singing about in this song.

It's an interesting way of viewing things, because it flips the whole 'victim mentality' that comes with seeing your gender be constantly degraded. With this song, Shania Twain has shifted who the victim is. Hint: IT'S THE PATRIARCHY

To not like something simply because of its 'category' is stupid. This song is fantastic!

lol im a bloke and i love this song:)

This song first got me interested in country music when I was like 10. Shania is still my favorite country artist. This song has great lyrics and it's just a fun song.

This song is AWESOME!!! It is completely true-we women are superior to men we have our own independent trail of thoughts and have the right to to what we want. This song was a very bold choice for Shania!!!!!

Cool song. Catchy, fun lyrics, totally awesome! And Shania is majorly hot in the music video!

I love this songs its soo true.

haha! i absolutely love this song. i use to dance around with my old under 11's netball team to this song.

lol this a fun song to sing to! hehehe its a fun song- even if its contrey!