Blog 5- Response

This was a tough assignment for me. I never have really paid attention to gender in the songs I listen to. These songs don't necessarily represent gender for me, but I feel like they showed the major change in music from the old generations to the present. The Beatles songs I chose all had to do with love between a man and a woman, and then I chose a few songs that are popular now. The difference is huge between the different kinds of music. Now, we have Brittney Spears and Beyonce representing women across the world, I don't know if that is necessarily a good thing. However, back when The Beatles were around, they could have been representing men in the world. All of the songs now are pretty much disgusting with durrogatory terms about both men and women. I feel like women are bashing men, men are bashing women, or it's about how a couple broke up and hate the other person. It's all a little bizarre to me, this is why I don't think I could find songs that represented gender to me. As for my taste in music, it has never really changed. I will always be a fan of The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Songs come and go today, but I don't see them effecting people like the music did a couple of decades ago. The Beatles will always be classic, I can't say I see the same thing for Britney Spears.

In response to Pipher's story, I can not imagine being forced to not be myself because I was scared of society's opinions. My parents have always taught me to be who I am and stand up for what I believe in. I got called a tomboy throughout my childhood because I loved sports and hated dresses. I never looked at that term as durrogatory towards me, and I'm not sure if the kid who called me a tomboy understood it either. I understand times have changed, but I think it is very important to keep teaching children to be comftorable in their skin, it doesn't matter what their gender happens to be.