Poem Packet

From the poem packet I'm getting a feel of sexism and the different viewpoints from both males and females. The Beyonce song "If I were a Boy" and the David Lehman poem "Sexism" I see go hand in hand. To me, they both talk about how women get hurt by men. The Lehman poem is satrical  saying a woman is the happiest when her love has been cheating on her. With the Beyonce song, I watched the music video to it. Beyonce tells the message that it hurts when someone you love doesn't show the same love back in return, that they don't sacrifice their own wants for the person they are with or go even further than ignoring them and flirt with someone else. John Micheal Montgomery's "Sold" seemed to have a lighter tone to it. The song talks about a funny way of meeting a life partner. Besides it being country (no offense to country fans) it was a funny song, also it just had a complete different message than the previously mentioned poems. My explicate was that the woman picks the man not the other way around. The last poem the Children's Rhyme is a classic, well just the what girls are made of is the part I knew. This poem really just says the basic message of girls are good and boys are bad. The poem is probably used to scar little girls to stay away from boys till they are older.