4 comments on “P!nk’s F*ckin’ Perfect”

1. Linda Anselmi on April 3, 2011 at 4:38 pm said:

   The title would says it all, if the lyrics and video weren’t all ready F*ckin’ Perfect.

   Brava Pink!

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2. Bes on April 3, 2011 at 9:59 pm said:

   This is certainly dramatic and seems to be heartfelt. To me it seems to imply that the girl character has been forced into conformity and been made to feel inadequate by her Mother and female teachers and other girls at school. These are convenient authority figures but they are not people who have a good deal of power in this society and they are probably just getting by themselves. More likely it is the male run Corporate Media in which authentic women are not allowed a voice, religion which seldom gives women a voice, pornography which (for profit)attempts to define female sexuality as being for male enjoyment, Fashion which is misogynist, which make girls feel inadequate. I get tired of seeing young women as either sexualized or victims.

   Here is an ad that I found unusual in that it showed a young woman who was not a victim and not sexualized.
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ure=relmfu

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3. yttik on April 3, 2011 at 11:50 pm said:

   I love that! You go Pink!

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4. Anna Belle Pfau on April 4, 2011 at 1:11 pm said:

   Bes, I appreciate your point of view, but I think you are missing a point about the narrative in this video. The video is not about everywoman. It’s about a certain type of working class/poor woman. Thus the mother and female teacher aren’t demonized because we pretend they have more power than men in general, it’s because these are the two primary authority figures in the life of the child of a single mom.

   With my roots, I can certainly identify with P!nk’s message here. I remember how afraid I was just to say something in front of well-off people and how much I resented the privileges they had that it seemed like I would always be denied. I fought hard to find a way for people from every walk of life to be able to respect me and my opinion, even though it felt like everyone was passing judgment on me every minute of it. I’m not sure this is something people who have never been there can really understand. I don’t think we give a lot of thought in this country to how much economic class effects our sense of security, and thus our sense of personal worth.

   Anyway, just my 2 cents.

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