I don't see it as misogynistic. It's just a girl not liking her ex's new girlfriend. That's just...normal. Boys don't like their ex's new boyfriends either. They're just not as...peppy about it.
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It never struck me as misogynistic, but isn't it to a prospective boyfriend about his current girlfriend (rather than to an ex)?
Oh, probably. I haven't really analyzed it. I mean, the message is "I'm better than she is for you." Which doesn't strike me as particularly misogynistic. Unless any negative feeling toward a woman is automatically misogynistic.
isn't it to a prospective boyfriend about his current girlfriend (rather than to an ex)?
Yes. And in the video (god knows why I've seen the video, except I was trapped in horrified fascination), the current girlfriend is mousy and wears glasses, whereas Avril is of course cool and in skimpy clothes.
Edit: Ugh, even better, at the end of the video, the mousy girlfriend ends up in an overturned outhouse, and Avril drags the boy into a bathroom stall to make out.
Ew.
And in the video (god knows why I've seen the video, except I was trapped in horrified fascination), the current girlfriend is mousy and wears glasses, whereas Avril is of course cool and in skimpy clothes.
Well, that's dumb! I always pictured the current girlfriend as Paris Hilton-y.
Hey now! Her first CD was good, and her second was all right. "Girlfriend" is atypically awful.
Jackal told me a sekret about Avril... I shall never tell!
Here's my Avril shame - I actually like some of her live, acoustic stuff.
The part that bothers me about "Girlfriend" is that I can't see any self-respecting person falling for that line. Even if the current girlfriend really is that bad.
I saw the deposition as another step in Michael's destruction (self- and otherwise). Now he knows how little the front office thinks of him. And how far he was in a dream world by thinking that Jan's job was his for the taking.
(And, as a former litigator, I confess disappointment that neither side asked Michael that classic question, "Have you discussed your testimony today with anyone?")
Generally speaking, the "I am fabulous and you should be grateful I acknowledge your existence" attitude tends to be the quickest way to deep-six my opinion of someone. No CD sale for Avril!
When someone not me makes a fanvid out of the Hermione/Ron/Lavendar scenes from Half Blood Prince to "Girlfriend", the song wil be redeemed for a lot of people.
Then again, I love it anyway cause it makes dance and smile.