To find Alexandra Burke's Video really hypocritical and sexist?

[JamesTheCat]

I know I'm going to sound like Mary Whitehouse on acid, but AIBU to be offended by the new Alexandra Burke video?

I know I don't have to watch it, I just have to turn the t.v. over when it comes on, etc, etc. BUT her new video for 'Broken Heels' takes the biscuit - she's singing all about being able to do things better than men - so you would think quite a pro women song - but does this while her and a crowd of other young, slim ladies in skin tight all in one not-far-off leotards and high heels gyrate and wiggle everything they have got and more.

I just find it really, really sexist, more because they are singing a 'girl power' song, yet still having to succumb to turning it on for men.

Alex Burke became famous through X Factor watched by legions of young girls. It's so disappointing if these girls have followed Alexandra's career til now, what a poor role model

a few years ago jamesthecat I would have vehemently disagreed with you but now i couldn't sgree more! maybe being a mother with a daughter has made me more of a feminist, I don't know...

fwiw I think there's a definite difference between being "sexy" and a "sex object". I think the video as many videos do, portray the latter..

jamesthecat my dd is 13 so at that age where she is going to be going out very soon wearing 'inappropriate' clothing.

Im just thinking back to when I went out in a black catsuit clubbing in newcastle, also in skin-tight velvet hotpants.
I was young, sexy, firm, fit etc etc, and I wanted to show it off. I thought I was chocolate
Why are you all hell bent on making your daughters into twinset/boden wearing old ladies?
I will probably tut and roll my eyes when the time comes but I know I'll be thinking 'god she looks great in that'.

I do have a problem with early sexualisation stuff (plyaboy for 5 year olds WTF is that all about) and dd has always dressed age appropriate rather than like a slapper that some children seem to be dressed like. She hasnt even had a pair of shoes with heels yet.
But I dont think being sexy and showing off your figure is a bad thing as long asd youre over 16 ... didnt you do it?

Exactly what MillyR said. I don't mind women looking sexy either, but they just look like a load of daft wenches who don't really know what they're meant to be doing.

Watched it with the sound off, which may or may not have helped, depending on your point of view

I think you have a fair point Mosschops. I think there is a difference between objecting to sexism and being prudish and wanting to stop your daughter having a sex life.

I have no issue with promiscuity or teenagers looking sexy. I do have an issue with women's sexuality being defined by a commercialised version of men's desires, which is essentially what this video is.

Well i couldnt play American football with or without my fanjo, tits, arse and heels broken.

yanbu, this video really hacked me off too.

YANBU it is aload of wank

I should count myself lucky. My daughter is 9 and she loves Kim Wilde??!! She wears faded denims stripy tee (took me forever to get the right one) and blazer! I havent the heart to tell her that our Kimmy is a gardener now!

I dunno why young girls wanna dress up showing there camel toes to all n sundry. Emily Pankhurst is turning in her grave

No one. Not even those lithe dancers can look sexy in those leotards. They are hideous. Even more so on the behind shots.

Mosschops, I think most of us went through the wearing sexy clothes stage, but what we wore then wasn't half as bad as what is encouraged now - going out with just duck tape across their nipples and the like! (in extreme cases!) back in the nineties, that would have been seen as crazy, at least where I'm from it would have.

This video is a bit different as it is aimed at or at least viewed by girls under the age of 16.

I don't think girls should be dressing up in Boden and twin sets, but surely there is a happy medium. I think she could have used the video to promote a positive attitude instead of promoting the idea that the only way a girl can get a man, despite being intelligent, interesting, fun etc. is to flounce around in gold tat and wiggle her @rse.