Placing Blame

Chivalry is cool, and emotions are hip. Sometimes I want to show some emotions, not be a pervert all day—it can be really exhausting!  And I’m sure women would want to try out this pervert thing once in a while, while exhausting, it can be fun. Turns out music has messed that up for everybody, and that’s not cool.  The Stones in all their glory have really messed up (or reinforced) male stereotypes.

“Numerous cock rock songs…express a deep fear of women…this fear seems pathological, which reflects the fact that the macho stance of cock rockers is as much a fantasy for men as teenybop romance is for women.” Groups like the rolling stone set up this ideal that I’m now forced to follow. TV and music have formed our ideological views of what it means to be a man and a woman.  It’s a complete misconception, but that’s what it has become.  Guys are taught that they are not supposed to feel pain, that they should rouse many women, and leave them for the next. This quotes sums up what is wrong with this stereotype, though. In a feminism class I took, we learned that women are more likely to be the cheaters, and the least happy in marriage. It seems almost that guys are more deeply positioned to be in love, but through society’s unwillingness to view men in this light we put ourselves in situation where we conform to society’s mold. Cheat on our girlfriends because that’s just what guys do. Through being hurt by women, groups like the Rolling stones have set up a fantasy for them and everyone else who can’t find a women. Because. Facing facts. Women are mostly in control, waiting for guys to approach and generally getting to pick from the lot (or at least this is true for attractive women). And with Rolling Stones and other cock-rock music music men can imagine themselves in this fantasyland as being the dominant one. They are in control, and they have grasp over women in a way never know before. Music genders us and leads us to believe things about each gender that may or may not be true. And because of the music industry being controlled by men, they created this macho man that I must live with everyday, and women pine for. Everyone wants a cliché.