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Yes, because boys want to have fun too.
No, because she never said that boys don’t want to have fun.
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I mean... as good a song as that may be... if you're asking... I'm gonna have to say that yes, she is being sexist.
While you're right, she never does say that boys don't wanna have fun. But she certainly implied it. In no uncertain terms. It's just as clear as if Ms. Lauper had indeed said "boys don't and/or are unable/not-capable of having fun." The implication is clear by specifying that its "girl" who are, the one who wanna have fun. If she meant boys too, then she should have said so. She clearly does not believe boys capable of having fun. At least not when she wrote her sexist-hit-single. I hope her attitudes have changed.
Growing up, I often thought of this song, while having fun. And I felt a little guilty sometimes when this song would pop into my head. And I would wonder: "Is this fun I'm having ok?" "Does the fact that I'm having fun right now... mean I'm a girl? I don't feel like a girl, yet... here I am... a boy having fun. What's wrong with me?"
That shit fucked-me-right up.
In retrospect, to be safe, what she SHOULD have done, was made it about animals. Goats just wanna have fun? Now there's a song I think we can all enjoy.
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https://www.songfacts.com/facts/cyndi-lauper/girls-just-want-to-have-fun
This was Cyndi Lauper's first single as a solo artist. She released an album in 1981 as a member of the group Blue Angel, but "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" made her famous.
The song was a huge part of '80s culture. It became an anthem for female attitude and set fashion trends as the video showed Lauper wearing bright, outrageous clothes that looked like they came from a thrift store (they often did). It set the stage for artists like Madonna: independent women wearing cheap, yet fashionable clothes with a taste for garish accessories.
#longlive80smusic
Well since she didn't write it...
https://www.youtube.com/embed/6zeOag2fU3s