Consider Pac Man, for a moment. What makes Ms. Pac Man female? She has a ribbon on her head. That's it. Without that, she'd "end up just like" Pac Man, right?
But she already IS just like Pac Man. She does the exact same things he does. She is functionally equivalent to him. Nearly every difference that we attribute to her is imagined on the basis of the superficial symbol on her head.
That's what I have always felt was the theme of this song. It's a snarky statement about how our culture places an unjustified amount of weight on superficial, irrelevant differences between the sexes, and how this prevents us from truly relating to each other.
Consider Pac Man, for a moment. What makes Ms. Pac Man female? She has a ribbon on her head. That's it. Without that, she'd "end up just like" Pac Man, right?
But she already IS just like Pac Man. She does the exact same things he does. She is functionally equivalent to him. Nearly every difference that we attribute to her is imagined on the basis of the superficial symbol on her head.
That's what I have always felt was the theme of this song. It's a snarky statement about how our culture places an unjustified amount of weight on superficial, irrelevant differences between the sexes, and how this prevents us from truly relating to each other.
@Sabela You got it! The winner!
@Sabela You got it! The winner!
@Sabela You got it! The winner!
@Sabela You got it! The winner!