On one hand it makes me think, "wow, gender is so sexy, how can we preserve gender and take away its sting?"
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I am having a moment of deep fascination with Harry Styles' "Woman."
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But then the next thought is, no, how do we create a cultural form for what this song is about as full and rich as the word "woman" without attaching this "maddening subject of desire" framing to 50% of the world's population?
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And then I started thinking about how you make a music video as sexy as the song is, and I think it would have to be directed by a woman.
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And then I thought---well to some extent that's true it has to be someone who has moved through the world as a woman bc the song is playing (very successfully) with tropes that in the wrong hands say being possessive is normal and right for men, right?
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But then in another way, the director of that video simply has to be anyone, regardless of gender (essence, performance, expression, identity, etc), who has ever wanted to be a maddening object of desire.
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I could write an essay about this song for sure.
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And also let's get into the lalalalalalalalas! Which are like... aggressively childish! Even girly! But they're also Harry's voice! This song is about gender!!
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