Feminist Pirate Chantey

Feminist Pirate Chantey

Key & Peele

Dressed as pirates (“of the Caribbean” style), Key and Peele lead a shanty that is the reverse of what you’d expect from a bunch of old timey pirates. There is so much going on in this sketch that my feminist sociologist mind is in a frenzy. The song, at minimum, addresses the following topics:

Use of degrading language for women
Consent/sexual assault
Sexuality and women’s right to pleasure
A woman’s right to choose abortion/bodily autonomy
Objectification of women’s bodies/feminization of objects
Androcentrism/gender roles in the workplace
Pay inequality

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