I'm curious how many of the above posters have been male, esp those discussing women have it so much better?
I, for one, have always felt like it's about how women are very much constrained by the feminine roles they are supposed to fulfill, and it describes what those roles are and the societal results of fulfilling those roles. I mean, "Without the pretty pink ribbon, you'd say just what you pleased."
I feel like basically the pretty pink ribbon symbolizes the intense constraints/ribbon of femininity/pretty pink.
I think it a situation with this song that Elvis Costello faced earlier in his career in which people thought he was misogynistic because of his songs talking of the vapid roles women were in, but the reality was that he was complaining about them having to be in such roles and was really more of a feminist than a misogynist.
I'm curious how many of the above posters have been male, esp those discussing women have it so much better?
I, for one, have always felt like it's about how women are very much constrained by the feminine roles they are supposed to fulfill, and it describes what those roles are and the societal results of fulfilling those roles. I mean, "Without the pretty pink ribbon, you'd say just what you pleased."
I feel like basically the pretty pink ribbon symbolizes the intense constraints/ribbon of femininity/pretty pink.
I think it a situation with this song that Elvis Costello faced earlier in his career in which people thought he was misogynistic because of his songs talking of the vapid roles women were in, but the reality was that he was complaining about them having to be in such roles and was really more of a feminist than a misogynist.