Song Criticizing Gender Roles

[MusicNerd]

[Trigger Warning: cissexism, bullying, strong gender binarism]
Found a really striking music video on tumblr called "Little Game" by BENNY. One of my friends posted this on hir tumblr and I was totally floored: http://youtu.be/WNr3x1kVVEc

I can't believe that an artist who's only 15 years old was able to create a video that has such powerful visuals about the gender binary and gender roles!

[Onionpie]

This is AWESOME! The imagery is REALLY powerful, if Benny directed this himself he has some really seriously excellent artistic vision and execution. I love seeing young adults finding creative ways to question and break down societal structures that they're told to just take for granted.

[Keda]

I love that video - and the song too, played it far too many times when I first found it :p . And the comments, last time I looked, are pretty amazing too.

[Thricechanged]

This song is amazing, both in what it portrays and the comments below it. It is truly astonishing how well it frames events, and how the people's responses on a semi-anonymous place seem. The idea of the water glass and even the fish in the same space but differently colored really resonates.

[Mellonhead]

Wow. The song is spectacular! The visual presentation of gender is very stark!

In contrast to the above posters, I actually do not see the video as "breaking down societal structures", but as a creative expression of bullying behavior against non-conforming individuals that do not fit in their assigned gender roles. This does not necessarily mean that present gender roles must be torn down, but the tendency to work within a rigid framework (as opposed to being flexible) is not always feasible. I can go on forever talking about the importance of gender roles and why I am cis-gender and cis-sexual, but I won't, because that would be off-topic here.

[Heather]

It also might not be so appropriate unless what you wanted to talk about is why they are personally important to you: our readership here is highly diverse, and includes many users who are intersex, transgender or gender non-conforming, so we need folks to be sure and talk about these issues bearing that diversity in mind.

[Mellonhead]

It also might not be so appropriate unless what you wanted to talk about is why they are personally important to you: our readership here is highly diverse, and includes many users who are intersex, transgender or gender non-conforming, so we need folks to be sure and talk about these issues bearing that diversity in mind.

Nah, it's too off-topic.

[Peonies]

Awesome video and song! That's too cool that a 15 year old created that!