Gender Roles Of Femininity In Pillowtalk

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Nur Khairunnisa Arifin
Instructor Michelle Bernier
Dance and Popular Culture
April 12, 2016

Gender roles of femininity in “Pillowtalk” music video
Femininity means the quality of being woman. The quality of being woman is a very important fact for the people to understand more about the women. The women are very complicated. Some women react differently with their boyfriends. They will be a sweet, innocent, and gentle person when they are with their boyfriend. Their characters also change drastically when they have conflicts in their relationship. People surrounding them can feel the intensity of their relationship when they are in the fight mode. Some women also do not care about the boyfriend or anyone else. They think of themselves only. …show more content…

The first type of women is the one that has a boyfriend. She is always happy with her boyfriend. She thinks her life is much better with the boyfriend. She can forget all her problems in life. The second type of women is the one that is single and alone without her boyfriend. This woman exists when she thinks the boyfriend does not love her anymore especially after their fights. She can be characterized as the unstable, depressed and stressed woman. And the last type of women is the one that is for the pleasure of other people. This woman knows her body can attract the people to watch her. She finds her pleasure in life by making people to like her body. She does not care about how people think of her as long as she is happy with her …show more content…

This is because society feels attracted to that fight. They also do not think this fight is a cruel boxing. As long as the woman fights with the woman, the society does not care much about it. The woman also almost hits the other woman. This is still acceptable in society because the society thinks that these women make jokes with each other. Their outfits also are very tight that shows their naked body, and wearing boxing gloves, high heels and rabbit ears. It really makes people to think that these women are not really serious about the fights. The society also thinks these women are just for the show. If one of the women is actually a man, the society may burst into anger to the music video. They are just mad at the man only and it does not occur to the woman. Because they think the woman is a weak and the man is the evil one. This is why in this video, there are the women fight each other. Zayn Malik also says that these women, that are fighting, are in his fantasy. It also can be analyzed that the men dream to have the women against each other wearing sexy outfits for their

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