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Like A Boy Rhetorical Analysis

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The music video "Like A Boy" by Ciara is about Ciara acting like a boy. The video started when Ciara is sitting on a big chair like a man. She was wearing a tank top, had baggy jeans on and was wearing many chains on her neck. The video zoomed in her muscles and tattoos. This showed her masculinity and the way of a man. The readings that can mostly support Ciara's music video are Gender Stereotyping in the English language, The Gendered Society, and Patriarchy, the system: An it, not a he , a them, or an us. In Reconstructing. Ciara started the music video while sitting on a throne. Then she started the song by saying "I think it's time to switch roles". She wants to act like the opposite gender. She is dressing and acting like what she thinks every man would do. It then showed that she is talking to the guy …show more content…

107). This can be related to the music video of Ciara when she is acting like a boy. Men have their sexual prowess over women because words are used in reference to active tense, words like (lay, take, have). In the song Ciara said "I play you like a toy", refering to that men are treating women like a sex object. The way Ciara is acting is the opposite of what Kimmel says in chapter 3. Kimmel talks about gender society. In chapter 3 he stated "In almost every society, labor is divided by gender (as well as age). Certain tasks are for women, others for men" (Kimmel, 2013). Kimmel will probably disagree with what Ciara is doing in the video. In almost every society, women and men should each have different and their own job according to their gender. Men should be the one doing the hard works and women will have to support him. This is not always true, men can be supporting women in a way that people don't see it like

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