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Tuesday, 17 March 2020
A Necessary Gender Theory of Jenny Lewis' "Just One of the Guys"
While Jenny Lewis explicitly names three distinct gendered categories in her 2014 Voyager track, "Just One of the Guys" (the girls, the guys, ladies without a baby), one of the named genders mentioned therein (ladies without a baby) suggests the existence of a fourth distinct gender left unnamed (ladies with a baby).
Further evidence for the existence of a fourth Lewisian gender can be found in the singer's invocation of the possible supercategory of ladies, as in "I'm not gonna pay for you / That's not what ladies do," which would theoretically contain ladies with a baby and ladies without a baby both. That is to say, that whether a lady is with a baby or without a baby—a baby being an accessory to gender, rather than a discrete gender all its own—there are things that she simply does not do, including but not limited to: breaking for you, praying for you, or paying for you.
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