Dolly Parton

            I loved reading about Dolly Parton this week. I am a huge country fan and I have definitely listening to Dolly Parton before but reading the two essays taught me so much more about her that I never even knew.

            Dolly is the rare celebrity that does not get sucked into the fame and fortune. She’s still the same person she was before she because famous, she’s humble and stays true to her hometown roots. But she does get a lot of different opinions about her body image. She is always talked about being this sexual icon, when in reality so is not a very sexual person and people just perceive her to be because of what her body looks like. In the reading, a couple sentences really stood out to me. “Men’s magazines (e.g., Esquire, Playboy) have claimed her as an icon for the desire male gaze, focusing on her body and sexual image. Spuermarket tabloids (e.g., The Star, National Examiner, Nation Enquirer and The Globe) have variously portrayed her as a sexual icon, as a transgressor of patriarchal conventions, and as the occasional victim of personal crisis” (111). In just those two sentences she was referred to as sexual twice, and was said to be desirable for me. I believe that people can be judged so quickly and easily just by the look of their body. Dolly teaches women to do whatever they want as long as it makes them happy, and to be independent. She said, “’I need my husband for love and other men for my work. But I don’t depend on any man for my strength’” (116). She is a strong independent woman who knows what it means to work hard and be rewarded in return. She has never changed who she is and will continue to be a positive reputation for female country singers.