Feminism: blog task

Watch the Beyonce video for ‘Why Don’t You Love Me?’ 

1) How might this video contribute to Butler’s idea that gender roles are a ‘performance’?

 

I would go with Butlers Idea of gender sterotype roles and how Beyonce in my opinion  is parodying the role as for example cleaning and knowing nothing about vehicles and staying inside the house. Also by the line 'Men dont care about how smart i am' and it showed the fix point of women not being noticed by how women are smart but how they look as she is wearing tight clothes. The performance overall is giving the gender stereotype as being fixed in that era as to being based where women would only be known for being a house wife and is taking a parody of that. 

2) Would McRobbie view Beyonce as an empowering role model for women?

 

Mcrobbie views of Beyonce would be that its okay for a woman to be glamorous and this would mean that it to please them selves. Another reason would be empowering women was that it was based in the late 1900s so this would be after war. This would also be about lyrics as to saying that men dont care about may things and it just her looks who have got the audience gazed, Beyonce is a role model because of this as she is giving a parody to all of this and McRobbie aim is to show the perspective is can be feminist and wear what Beyoce is reading.

3) What are your OWN views on this debate – does Beyonce empower women or reinforce the traditional ‘male gaze’ (Mulvey)?

 

 My view on this debate is that Beyonce is parodying the stereotype and its brilliant because when you listen to the lyrics she is saying men dont care about brains or anything. However she uses the Male gaze where she uses are looks as a distraction and she in my opinion is challenging the view of this as to not really cleaning properly as to cleaning or washing. Another would be that she is reinforcing as to the roles but because she is a icon of an independent women shows all her grammys and her cleaning them as to parodying the sterotype basing it on that time set.