3) “我醒来就是这样完美无瑕。” — 碧昂斯(Beyonce)
“I woke up like this” — Beyonce
好莱坞电影和美国流行音乐对女性形象常有一套特定的标准。那要是女性们准备好反击了呢?
2013年,碧昂斯发布了名为《碧昂斯》的专辑,开启了这一趋势。专辑里一首名为《完美无瑕》的歌词尽显女性主义光芒,其中有一句是“我们完美无暇,女士们,告诉他们,我醒来就是这样完美无瑕。”时间跳到2014年8月,演员、作家莉娜·丹恩(Lena Dunham)在Instagram上发了一张让人不敢恭维的照片,估计是她刚起床时照的,图的配文是:“这不正是碧昂斯歌词所唱的吗?(其实昨晚什么都没喝,这表情是纯自然的)”
丹恩可不是唯一一个在社交媒体上发自己起床照片的人,也不是第一个。碧昂斯发行同名专辑的那天Tumblr网站用户创建了 iwokeuplikethisflawless(我醒来就是这样完美无瑕)专题,用户可以在里面上传自己刚起床时的自拍。直到今天,Instagram上#iwokeuplikethis专题还是很火。这一流行趋势体现了人物(尤其是女性)形象在美国社会中的作用,也体现了人们想要打破主流媒体和文化塑造的固定形象。
Hollywood films and American pop music beat their audiences over the heads with specific standards and images of feminine beauty. But what happens when women decide to fight back?
Beyonce got the ball rolling when she released her self-titled album in 2013. It contained the song “Flawless,” which is filled with empowering feminist lyrics, including “We flawless, ladies tell 'em / I woke up like this.” Skip ahead to late August of 2014, when the actor and writer Lena Dunham published a less-than-flattering photograph on Instagram, presumably taken moments after she'd woken up. The post included the following caption: “Is this what Beyonce was singing about? (Also, pretty depressing that this look isn’t even fueled by one ounce of alcohol)”
Dunham was far from the only person to create a social media post with this theme. In fact, she wasn't even the first. The Tumblr blog iwokeuplikethisflawless was created the day Beyonce's album was released to showcase user-submitted selfies taken after waking up. Today, the Instagram tag #iwokeuplikethis is still a popular one. This trend illustrates the role that one's image (particularly that of women) plays in American society, and it also shows how willing people are to rebel against the standards that mainstream media and culture present them with.