I got a postcard today! That’s almost irrelevant to this song except in the title. At first I thought this was a girls’ empowerment song, which is cool since her status as a Disney star makes it relatively likely that young girls will hear this song and the message with it, but then it ended up being an even broader and rarer “gender roles are stupid” song, which I personally find even cooler. I like that this song doesn’t stop at the message, “Girls can do anything,” and goes on to suggest that boys, too, can do anything, since teaching boys it’s shameful to do “girly” things is poisonous to girls just like teaching girls they can’t excel at “boyish” things is.
Bridgit Mendler - Postcard:
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