Oh no! Feminized men!
So one of my Women's & Gender Studies professors calls me and tells me to look up this Brad Paisley song called "I'm Still A Guy". I have no words! It is so sexist and homophobic! I get so sick of this macho man bullshit! I'm sorry but I am pretty sure when he goes on stage and performs on the CMAs and crap he has product in his hair and makeup on his face.
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I've disliked the song since I first heard it. It's a fairly catchy tune, but it's still annoying. The whole "signing up to get neutered" is the worst. The whole need for "guys needing to be guys" is annoying. Sure, you like something or don't like something, but don't like or dislike something just because you are that gender.
And yeah, your point about him probably wearing hair product and makeup on stage is probably correct.
I always took it as just him having a woman who wanted a "manly man" and reassuring her that he wasn't going to change, not saying necessarily that there was anything wrong with a guy being more of a "metrosexual" type guy.
So I don't think its so much about "guys needing to be guys" just that's what his wife wants and that's how he wants to be.
No no no. He is playing into the whole idea of hegemonic masculinity. He is reinforcing the idea that a man should be tough and rugged where women should only be the ones who care about their appearance. Therefore that men who do care about their appearance are nothing more than "feminized", not the ideal, gay. To me it is no different then going out and calling a guy, who just walked out of a salon after getting a haircut, a "fag". It's very school yard, immature as well as ignorant.
That's the way I heard it too, jj. :)
As a transman, I'm definitely moved to play an ironic cover of this song at my next show. I love the "can't hold a tackle box" line.
Oh Yeah!!!! Don't need balls to be a man! You go!
I can't watch the video because I'm at work, so I Googled the lyrics...and promptly had to choke back vomiting Sun Chips all over the keyboard.
Some personal, um, favorites:
"When you see a priceless French painting and I see a drunk naked girl" (how do you know she's drunk?)
"in weak moment I might walk your sissy dog, hold your purse at the mall but remember I'm still a guy." (anyone with this mentality doesn't deserve to hold my dog - "sissy" or otherwise)
"I don't highlight my hair, I've still got a pair" (because obviously those things are mutually exclusive)
"I see a large mouth up under that log." (Is this some sort of camping term? Or is it an oral sex reference? I'm confused...)
"Then turn right around knock some jerk to the ground 'cause he copped feel as you walk by." (thanks but I can take my own knee to some guy's groin if he gropes me in public)
"With deep spray-on tans and creamy lotiony hands you can't grip a tackle box." (these lyrics are so offensive that I can imagine you'll be doing plenty of "gripping your tackle box")
>> "I see a large mouth up under that log." (Is this some sort of camping term? Or is it an oral sex reference? I'm confused...)
A large mouth, in this case, is a fish -- large mouth bass. It probably intended as a double entendre, though (as also I understood the "some men getting facials" line as a double-entendre shot at gay men).
kbz
I suppose it is considered feminine to rely on colourful make-up, excessive commodities, hair dye, manicure, waxing and botox, for the simple reason that women do these more than men. Still, I really don't see anything natural about people relying on these as a result of some obsession they have over their own appearance. Why would I ever have to accept this sort of behaviour as natural, as childish as I perceive this cosmetics mania as?
Ya that kind of mentality is all through country music I can't stand to listen to it
I just think of how many jerks there are with that kind of sick ass mentality. fuck them.