Why Ke$ha's New Memoir Is 2012's Answer to 'The Feminine Mystique'
(yes that's the original headline. I'm only posting this for discussion, not because I agree with it.)
http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/11/why-ke-has-new-memoir-is-2012s-answer-to-the-feminine-mystique/265469/
If prominent feminist thinkers of the last century or so were to get together and design their composite "woman of tomorrow," what would she be like?
Weirdly enough, she might look and act kind of like... um, Ke$ha.
It's been said before that Ke$ha's work speaks directly to sexual double standards. In fact, MTV heralded Ke$ha as "perhaps the most empowering artist on the planet" in 2010 for her bold, no-apologies reversal of gender roles. Now, let's be real—it'd still be a big, big stretch to cast America's frattiest female pop star as the neon-painted face of the feminist movement on that basis. Virginia Woolf almost certainly would have objected to lyrics like "I don't care where you live at, just show me where your dick's at," and the ever-sensible Betty Friedan might have gently suggested toothpaste for oral hygiene rather than whiskey.
But some revealing nuggets from Ke$ha's frighteningly glittery new autobiography, My Crazy Beautiful Life, suggest that in some ways, she might be just what some of the 20th century's most famous feminist thinkers had in mind.