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So again I was on YouTube, which has too many videos to count, and I started watching the music video to Britney Spears song “Womanizer.” Basically the song is talking about her boyfriend and how he is charming, but he is no good and he is a womanizer, which most can probably guess from the title. Anyways, I was watching it and I noticed that a lot of the scenes in the video were topics that we covered in class about gender roles. For example, in the beginning, Britney is dressed as a housewife and she is cooking breakfast for her boyfriend before he goes to work in his office. The funny thing is, her shirt is opened, but sex sells nowadays so it’s not even a big deal to most. Then, she is in disguise as a secretary and then as a bartender, but with both disguises she is dressed very seductively. As the bartender, she is dressed in tight leather pants and also an open shirt. Women are mostly seen as dressed seductively according to Craig’s article. What I found pretty cool about this video was that in the end she is in control of the guy. She ends up teasing him, kicking him in the balls, and then “gets rid of him” as she throws her black sheet on top of her bed and he disappears. I think it’s pretty cool that at first it shows the stereotypes of women, but then in the end she reaffirms that women have power in a relationship too. That’s my opinion and I doubt there is any girl who wants to be played or used by a guy. So this video has a good side to it in my eyes. Hopefully many people will see that this is a pretty good video.
