This songs is what Wordpress calls “a hope in this so stereotyped world of music.” The song repeated states how girls run the world. In all reality, this is a false claim. It is a known fact that women are suppressed in society and have been for hundreds of years. This song is attempting to be progressive and telling women to take control of the world and to break free from the chains that they have been bound with by men.
In most music, hip-hop specifically, men usually talk about women like they are sex objects. Women are looked at as nothing more than pieces of meat. In some hip-hop songs, artists sing that women have no real value in the world except for sexual pleasure. Men’s songs constantly discuss women’s body and their appearance, specifically. Women’s songs tend to have more meaning behind them, and some seem to focus more on actual “love.”
This song is endorsing what is called “imperial feminism.” It is not trying to make men and women equals, this imperial feminism wants to make females the dominant gender. This concept is almost a revengeful mindset that is trying to get back at men for holding them down their entire lives.
In reality, men are constantly recognized as the dominant gender. One perfect example is that a woman will only make three-fourths of a man’s salary for the same amount of work. Housework is commonly divided unevenly. The gender stereotype is that men are known as the ones who go to work and women stay home, do chores, and take care of the kids. At the end of the day, even though women may work harder than the men, men still get the credit as the hard workers.
Beyonce is showing in this song how she wants women to step up and take control of their lives, and the world. She wants them to show people that they are the dominators and they can do anything, and more than a man can do. Even the music video is trying to portray females as powerful. In the video, Beyonce is all around the men and she is the one in control. There are scenes displaying her in powerful positions such as holding two hyenas on a leash, standing over them.
When all is said and done, has this song really made an impact on the totem pole that compares men and women? Perhaps in other countries such as Germany, where a women is the equivalent of our president. However, has this or any song promoting imperial feminism had an impact on our nation? If so, it is a significantly small percentage of women who have taken songs like these and have achieved more than most women. Women in our society today are still seen as the “sidekick” to the men.
In our society today, women will always be seen as the “sidekick” to men unless women start making greater advances in the workforce, so much that it is impossible for men; “the ones in control,” to look past the fact that women are equal to men across the board. It is sad that women are still put in the light of being the trivial counterpart to men, but it is true. Although overtime conditions will improve for women, just as they did for African Americans.
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