Friday, May 27, 2011

What's really wrong with "girl power"

In my earlier post I mentioned that some feminist bloggers are critical of a Beyonce song that presents girl power in ways that are trite and foolish. They're not wrong about the song. It's awful. (But millions of girls will buy it.)

But here is the question, could it be any different? Why would we think that girls could do anything more significant than make Beyonce even richer than she already is? You may say, "Girls are the future" and to that I reply, "Not until they grow up."

Girl power can never be the alternative to silly princess fantasies because girl power is a silly princess fantasy.

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