Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site mako.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!orca!mako!danb From: danb@mako.UUCP (Dan Ball) Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles,net.music Subject: Opinion on Cyndi Lauper? Message-ID: <512@mako.UUCP> Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 16:28:57 EST Article-I.D.: mako.512 Posted: Sat Jan 12 16:28:57 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 03:30:52 EST Distribution: net Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 25 Xref: watmath net.women:4073 net.singles:5348 net.music:5702 >Message-ID: <147@decwrl.UUCP> > _Ms._ magazine has named Cyndi Lauper as one of their women of the >year (1984). Are they serious, or what? > Feminist? Could somebody please tell me what's feminist about that >song? Most feminists I know are offended by the song. > The article concludes with this: >> If Helen Reddy's recording of "I Am Woman" was about anger and a newfound >> collective pride, "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" is about a newer, defiant >> joy and the celebration of our strength. > It is? All the song says is "girls just want to have fun" over and >over until you're sick. > What do you folks think? > <_Jym_> I agree to the Nth. Cyndi Lauper is not a feminist nor a normal female. Cyndi Lauper is a silly nincompoop who sings about silly things. Anyone who can go home at night, go to bed and say to herself "I think I should write a song about what I'm going to do with my privates while reading my *Blue Boy Magazine*" has got to be totally bubbled.