I Love An Esquire Girl


Okay, maybe I'm over-analyzing this song, but I have always found it sort of sexist. What the song boils down to is that if a man doesn't get all hot and bothered over the "cheesecake" kind of girls found in men's magazines, there's something wrong with him, and he's not normal. It's the same old, "we, the media, will tell you what you're supposed to like, and how a man/woman should behave if they're a real man/woman."

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Keep in mind this was 1943. Deviating from heteronormative gender expectations was not openly celebrated in popular culture,

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