Avril Lavigne Is A Female Chauvinist Pig.

insomniac's picture

Avril Lavigne. I've seen ghosts with deeper skin complexions. Her name sounds like something you would find on a sail boat. And she makes Punky Brewster look like the Sex Pistols. But, I can forgive all of that. What I can't forgive is her new song & video "Girlfriend". It does a disservice to women everywhere.

I know, I know, why pick on poor Avril, right? Misogyny has been a part of music videos for longer than Avril's been alive. But, when the anti-female message is promoted by females, it is so much more powerful and damaging. And that's exactly what Avril's new song & video does.

I can see why young girls dig Avril. She offers an alternative to bubble-gum starlets like Jessica Simpson, but she's not dark enough to iscolate. So, when "girl power" Avril sings about sabotaging other girls in order to steal their man, it strikes a powerful cord. It's especially powerful when, in her music video, Avril physically harms her female rival, and laughs. Apparently, winning the affection of a boy is a lot more important than treating other women with respect. Nice job.


Why am I throwing a hissy fit about this? Aren't women making serious strides in society? Does the name Hillary Clinton ring a bell? Sure. But who are young girls more exposed to? Nancy Pelosi or Paris Hilton?

Thanks to Salon.com writer Ariel Levy, we finally have a term worthy for women like Avril. Female chauvinist pig.



Mechangel's picture

She's starting to sound like...

a mix between Merdith Brooks and Alanis Morissette from the 90's. I was originaly going to ignore this post since her dumbness goes without saying, but then I looked up the lyrics to the song in question.
"She's like so whatever
You could do so much better"

?????
Thats what happens when you skip class to be a coke fiend slut I guess. A disgrace to our fine neighbors to the North, I'm sure.

I think its just annoying that shes a self proclaimed pop star that dresses hot topic punk and just has one of those faces you want to smash in with a brick.

fongaboo's picture

Come on down!

Yeah Canada seems to export their most mediocre citizens down here. Case-in-point, Pamela Anderson.. They should just let Alberta join the U.S. and absorb New York.

Also.. coincidence??

fongaboo's picture

A girl's worst friend

I'm sure not the first person to say this, but so often a woman's worst enemy ends up being another woman. And this video is simply a youthful celebration (read: indoctrination) of that.

But it doesn't stop once you graduate high school. It's transcended even into the post-feminist world as you can see plenty of examples of such cattiness in today's workplace. Often you will see two women jockeying for career stature with the same ruthlessness we see Avril trying to snag a boy.. but I was surprised as I witnessed another permutation of the pheonomena: the female manager who makes life hell for her female subordinates.

Meryl Streep recently characterized this in 'The Devil Wears Prada'. Such icy behavior is expected in the fashion biz, but I can attest that it's not relegated just to the runway. I think you'll find evidence of this in today's co-ed workplace, regardless of industry.

I once remember hearing a ton of horror stories about a particular woman manager, but couldn't correlate it to my personal interactions with her. She was an all-business type of personality for sure, but she always dealt with me in a rational and respectful manner. At first I thought it was just a matter that I wasn't directly answerable to her, but then I realized I never heard any complaints from her male employees. It was only the women who regaled anecdotes of constantly being chastised, reprimanded and denied opportunities.

She somehow had such a defacto resentment for these young aspiring women. Who would have thought that the glass ceiling would actually have another girl on the other side sticking her tongue out, flipping the bird from above??

A guy who has only female friends is going to be pegged as gay, but it's because of what we're discussing here that a girl with only guy-friends simply indicates a girl that doesn't want to deal with this crap. Too bad said guy-friends secretly want to sleep with her.. :-P

koyaan's picture

Enjoy Coke!

I'm surprised that nobody has exposed Avril's past yet. A few years ago I met someone that knew her up in Canadaland before she was an "artist". He said she was a self-loathing teen coke-whore. She used to engage in 'group activities' with guys she barely knew as long as they got her high.

And this was before it was cool to be a teen coke-whore.

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