Poetry Packet

Something that all of the poems/songs had in common was that they were all sexist in one way or another.  In Beyonce Knowles song "If I were a Boy" she was saying how if she was a boy then she would care and know how to love a girl and she would try to make her girl happy and then saying how her guy does none of that and takes her for granted--then she blames it on the fact that he is a boy.  In the second song "Sold" by John Montgomery he is telling a story about how he was at an auction and saw a "hot" girl there and knew that he wanted to get with her and wanted her to be his.  Towards the end he says that they ended up making love and they still laugh about how they met to this day. I'm not exactly sure where that relationship ended up going but from the context it sounds like they just had sex and then stayed being friends.  Then the "Sexism" poem by David Lehman is self-explanatory. He explains the happiest moment in a woman's life to be when she stays up waiting for her drunken husband and even though he has most likely screwed up, she is just happy that she has someone to sleep with. Then the guy's happiest moment is after a one night stand getting to drive away in the night. The last poem which is a children's rhyme even is sexist by saying that girls are all goody goody and that boys are just trouble and dirty.