Maricruz Rosas

Professor Granillo

English 103

30 May 2019

“Man’s World” by Joy Crooks

Introduction:

Wouldn’t you like this world to not have a patriarchal view? The good thing is that the American

Society is getting its media to enforce more content that empowers women. The problem of this

world is that it does not allow for equality. A gender, a race, a disability and position are the root

problems that the patriarchal system takes a grip of. Patriarchy in “Critical Theory Today” by

Lois Tyson is, “sexist, which means it promotes the belief that women are innately inferior to

men” (81). The American society is trying to remove the ideology of what behavior a woman

should have. For instance, Tyson presents, “feminism in order to underscore the multiplicity of

points of view of its adherents and offer ways of thinking that oppose the traditional tendency to

believe there is a single best point of view” (79). The world needs less of a patriarchal world and

should allow for feminism view because it will present equality. Feminism is presented in the

media and many people post about it or sing about it. In the song “Man’s World” asserts that

there should be no compromise in a commitment, while Joy Crooks presents that its time that

women regain the power and have a voice in the society. Through the lens of feminism concepts

such as Myth and Mystery from the theorist Simone de Beauvoir, that demonstrates how the

American society still has the patriarchal system that dominates the position of sex in the eyes of

the society; thus women are being manipulated by the patriarchal society making them
vulnerable in the view of the patriarchy, and instead it needs to allow women to have their own

impact to embrace the dominance in their lives instead of having others dominating it for them.

Summary of Song:

The song “Man’s World” by Joy crooks presents how a woman is in the look for a relationship

with a man but realizes that she is wasting her time because she can never get what she wants.

Joy Crooks states, “Stereotype that I thought I could fight, He's feeding me words I know I want

to hear, And although they get tasty you should disappear, Man's world, No time for fuckin' with

the man's world” (00:00:45-00:01:00 “Man’s World”). The man is looking at her through how

the society chose to capture the women’s attention. For example, sweet words and by knowing

she would not turn him down because a woman is supposed to be vulnerable and resilient to a

man. But instead Joy Crook turns the song around and presents it through a women’s perspective

on how they rather be alone then not getting what they look for in a relationship. Crooks

presents, “Ain't got no mister to tell me what when and why, Ain't got no lover, no, Ain't got no

time, Don't need no mister to tell me what when and why, I find my love in red wine, No chaser I

get by with my liquor and my paper” (00:01:06-00:01:26 “Man’s World”). This gives women

around the world a voice because women are never presenting how they feel, but this song shows

how women should be fine to confine to something they want instead of compromising to

something they don’t. It should never be a compromise in a relationship where one takes more

than the other.

Analysis:

“Man’s World” presents Simone de Beauvoir concepts of Mystery and Myth because of how the

song communicates that men are believing on a compromise, and men underestimating women

from being more than beautiful and inferior. In “Critical Theory Today” Tyson states, “Beauvoir
resisted patriarchal ideology” (89). Meaning that, she believed that women were constructed

through social ideas that represented how they acted and the intentions. Also, how men only saw

women. Crooks says, “But are you willing to compromise within a relationship? Compromise?

Compromising for what? To compromise for what? If a man came into, your life, would you

be able to compromise? Ahah-ha ha ahaha, a man comes into my life and I have to

compromise? Stupid” (00:03:18-00:03:40 “Man’s World”). At the end Crook presents Beauvoir

concepts because she points out how no one is going to get her to do something that she doesn’t

want. No one is going to manipulate the women into compromise or complying to patriarchy.

Evaluation of Text:

This matters because feminism is spreading awareness and allowing female artist to speak on

what women are suffering on. Women cannot speak up because of how the society has

commended them to not speak about their relationship instead that they should be happy with the

provider. Instead Crooks is giving the women in the song the voice that she chooses herself

instead of the patriarchy and that she is not willing to stop until others realize that she will never

settle for less. Women want equality and they want it so that everyone can be treated the same

and be looked at the same way the man does.