Music videoresponse

Music videoresponse

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  Devin Hankins FYS 10-27-15 Beyoncé –If I Were a Boy Music Video This music video in particular deals with gender roles/stereotypes of men and women. In the video, the woman is a cop which typically breaks gender roles since most men are cops, but it isn’t till the end of the video when it is explained how this will show the reinforcement of stereotypes. The video progresses and shows her arresting someone and her partner checking her out as she bends over to search the suspect. After the husband or boyfriend is sitting at home calling the girl who is out with all her friends at bar. The friends being all men and are her co-workers as well. The woman sees her phone ringing and pulls it out to see it be her significant other and hits the ignore button. The couple is then invited to a party for her work and they both attend. During the party the man is standing in the corner and has to watch the woman grind on her partner from the force. After the song ends she walks over and tries to talk to him and he walks away. Once the two are home they start having an argument over what had happened. The man says, “I can’t believe you did that. Do you know how that makes me look?” Then the woman replies, “What? Why are you jealous? It’s not like I’m sleeping with him or anything.” Then they both at the same time ask “What?” This is where the roles flip back to the more normal expectation of this situation. The man just says, “What? Why are you jealous? It’s not like I’m sleeping with her or anything.”
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  That is howthe whole video reinforces the stereotypical man and woman behaviors in a relationship. It is typically men who ignore the women and flirt while the girls get mad while the men just get defensive and play it off like its nothing. The lyrics follow the video pretty well and also talk about how Beyoncé would act if she were a boy for a day. The gender roles are presented further with the home and work life of the couple. As she gets ready for work the morning he cooks breakfast and gets ready. After she leaves for work he goes to his desk job as a secretary for some fashion company. So the roles are made very evident even though the genders going through them are the opposite of what is expected.