Pussycat

I believe the pussycat dolls have been highly missunderstood.

Sensuality and sexuality is and always be a part of female power, at least as long patriarchy rules, and maybe even when it doesn't. Eliminating it actually works in favour of the patriarcal rule. It makes women compete with men as equals, but work twice as hard, get half what they're worth and take a lot of crap still.

Joining the enemy state of mind instead helps women work well in a terrain they know well, pretend they are playing the game and enjoy the gain.

'Dontcha' reinforces the power women have in deciding whether to persuit a relationship, while criticizing male weakness in the choice for partners for life. This makes them prone to search for alternative, but concomitant partners, as they fail to be able to recognize mistaken relationships, no matter how bad they are.

'Buttons' teases on the fact that men think too higly of themselves. They keep on boasting about their aptitudes, but the ability to act on them is dubious. And women go on unsatisfied.

'Beep' insists that women can be both beautifull and intelligent and even then men will only see them for their looks (Ally Mcbeal picks on this topic a number of times). The girls grin at the male weaknes when confronted with female phisical appearence, and their incapability to see anything beyond it. And women will just go on living their lives while men just stop when struck by beauty.

So, to sum up, women are portrayed as beutifull, intelligent and in power, while men are said to be weak, unfulfilling and accomodated.

Now I am going to go out on a limb and risk say that the Pussycats are actually promoting the fact that however they dress, however they look, they are women in charge of their bodies, and they will only do what they want to be done with them.

If this is not a trully feminist view, I don't know what is. And girls will much rather listen to something this entertaining and appealing that read boring books and listen to dull, radical women.

Do not stomp on shallow... It is often deeper than you think. You just have to read between the lines.