Double Standards

So I was eating dinner today when the subject of mariah carey's new song 'touch my body' came up. I had never heard it, but my friends were saying that it was fairly disturbing. I went and looked up the lyrics they were talking about and was struck by the chorus:

"Cause if you run your mouth and brag
About this secret rendezvous
I will hunt you down"

It's mainly that, I will hunt you down part that struck me. The premise of the song is mariah singing to an unmentioned man about how he needs to touch her body (hence the name of the song) and how. It is very demanding, and, as shown above, she threatens that if he talks about their encounter, she will hunt him down. This part of the song is audibly very clear. It just made me think about what the reaction to this song would be if it were a man singing it. I think it would be a really negative reaction and it would be related to rape. I mean, if some man was demanding to be touched and threatening the girl to not talk about it, people would be really mad. This is a double standard. I think people are not upset or offended about it because people don't often think of rape in the context of the female doing the forcing. Is this because of the antiquated view of women being weak and subservient? I would definitely argue that that view is outdated (just look at the lyrics to this, or practically any other, popular female song). This just circles back in my mind to this 'invisible war against boys.' It would be so hard for a male to come out and say that he has been raped because it would threaten his masculinity, and who knows how his friends would treat him.

A lot of this class, and my blogs, are about this war against boys. I think that this is because I went into this class expecting to focus on girls/femininity. I guess when I thought of gender, I thought of women. That circles back to the whole idea that when you are in the majority, you are not associated with the title (i.e. when you think of race, you think black/African American, sexual orientation you think homosexual, etc). I had never really considered the male gender and any sort of pressure they felt.

PS--I have nothing against this song--just sparked some thoughts for me