What Are The Role Of Pets Or People?

Pets or People? Throughout time, humans evolve and change their views, and adapt to new environments and views. But, it seems the roles of gender never change enough. From the sixties until now, there are still gaps from men to women that never seem to meet. The culture of the sixties, namely music revealed to us how women were shown to be submissive, follow the men, and need men in their life wherever they go, just like pets.
For some reason, for all of time, humans have thoughts that one group is superior to another. In the 1960’s songs, portrayed that women should be submissive to men. The song “Under My Thumb” by The Rolling Stones brags about how “the girl who pushed me around” is under his thumb. The song boasts about breaking the
In the song “I Will Follow Him” by Peggy March, which was written by Norman Gimbel, a man, says, “I will follow him, follow him wherever he may go there isn’t an ocean too deep a mountain so high it can keep me away”. It was perceived in the 1960s that women were to follow men wherever they went, no matter what was happening. The song goes as far as to say “He is my destiny” as if there is nothing else for the woman except this man she desires. The song simply repeats over and over how the woman must follow the man wherever he goes. In the 1960s, a woman was simply a means to an end, with her only purpose being to serve a man, but following didn’t just mean wherever the man went, it also meant staying with him through whatever he did. “Maybe I Know” by Lesley Gore talks about a woman who knows her man is cheating on her but stays with him. “Deep down inside he loves me though he may run around deep down inside he loves me someday he'll settle down” showing how the woman has been conditioned to not want to leave her cheating boyfriend. While her man goes around and sleeps with whatever moves, she waits at home for someone who will never return the way she wants to, but still, she will wait, like a pet waiting for its
Songs like “Bobby’s Girl” by Marcie Blaine and “Mr.Sandman” by The Chordettes were written by men to portray that women needed a man in everything that they did. In “Bobby’s Girl” when the girl is asked what she wants to be when she grows up and responds, “There's just one thing I've been wishing for.I wanna be Bobby's girl”. This girl could have an amazing future but instead says the only thing she’s been wishing for is to have one man. This song is further degrading the image of women in the 1960s by showing them to be needy like a pet. In “Mr.Sandman” this image of needy women is pushed yet again when the women beg “Mr.Sandman” to bring them a man because they’re “so alone” and are in desperate need of someone to take care of them, just like a