rad interpretation of some sub-surface elements in beyoncé's hit: "Most people – from music journalists to my students – tend to hear this song as a really clichéd paean to marriage and traditional gender roles. . . . In fact, the song isn’t an ode to marriage and property and heterosexuality, it’s an Afrofuturist feminist critique of heterosexual courtship." but, as the song does work on two levels, it's not just women as robots as chattel, but the woman trying to find some kind of satisfaction within this system of desire as a cyborg.

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