And yet Perry's track was a sneered-at flop , at least partly, I think, because not many are still buying what she was trying to so vigorously sell. As I flashed back to the song's synthetically buoyant opening verse—"Sexy, confident / So intelligent / She is heaven-sent / So soft, so strong"—it struck me that Perry has inadvertently managed to zero in on the booby trap at the core of what we might call choice feminism. (Like others, I found the singer's belated claim that the song was meant satirically unconvincing.) With the seeming freedom to do anything and be anyone, preferably all at once, Perry's version of a woman is eerily similar to that of the women of MomTok: sexy and confident, soft and strong, a forever sister to her fellow content creators and a shrewd businesswoman who always looks out for No. 1, a devoted mother and wife and a boss bitch, a hottie who never forgets to show an enticing slice of tum and a hint of cleavage on TikTok and a committed Mormon who always puts God first; and so on.
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