Social Construction In John Taylor's Butterfly Girl

Social construction has been with human beings since day one. Basic questions swirl around nature all the time, and from these questions stereotypes form and never taken away. “Butterfly Girl” written and composed by Dom Brown, John Taylor, Nick Rhodes, Roger Taylor, and Simon Le Bon shows how women break out of their weak fragile caterpillar cocoon in order to strive for greatness as a social butterfly. Weakness, an often used typecast for girls, is the vulnerability that comes out when preforming psychically or mentally exerting tasks and women are far from that. The female gender is the façade, who will do anything to rise up and become the individual divulging from those labels to disprove the males who believe them to be the weaker sex. Weakness can diminish the growth of the inner core of a personality. In order to break free of social misinterpretations one must define the role model of the female they wish to become. Feelings of weakness bounce around my brain when gender is mentioned, what have I done wrong this time? My grandmother always tells me I should wear more girly clothes or more people will mistake me for a guy, which has happened at least four times before. When events such as this happen, I am at a
Only the strong individual within can decide this fact, and when trying to conform to the social background or hide in the foreground, others will conclude that you are weak. The powerful lyrics to “Butterfly Girl” speak to the stereotypes and help peel back the layers of the cocoon to become free. In my experience the cocoon was weakness that society wove into me and breaking out of that helped me decide to become the strong woman I am today. Defining a human being can be tough, but the mirror can only reflect half of the whole; the unseen butterfly within every