Feminist Anaylsis (Part 2)

Moving on to 1984, 31 years later after Marilyn Monroe's performance of Diamond's Are A Girl's Best Friend, Madonna sings a different song but with similar meanings and performance.

 Madonna, like Marilyn Monroe, were surrounded by men with their eyes fixated onto her. She was the center of attention as well and singing about how we are all "living in a material world, and i am a material girl" which enforces the point that women are materialistic only and the only thing powerful about them is spending money or only desire men that will spend money on them. The "Feminism" in this video was only at the end of the video when she was dressed more modestly and got together with a man that gave her flowers instead of diamonds or jewelry. So perhaps that shows that not all women end up being materialistic like that in the end.

In 2010, contemporary music still portrays women as highly sexualized and the view that they are materialistic have not yet changed. The picture above is Christina Aguilera in the movie Burlesque singing the same song that Marilyn Monroe sang in 1953 - Diamond's Are A Girl's Best Friend. When the professor asked which one would we rather be in, my thoughts are that i don't want to be in any of them. I don't feel that women are all powerful only when it comes to spending money and i don't feel that it is right to portray them that way. Also, women should not be objectified by men, just because of difference in gender does not make women any lower as a human being.