And I disagree with with the idea that pop culture sets the agenda for any social movement. Its more a reaction to it. True reform comes from grass roots movements, not the artist, and certainly not the artist who attempts to appeal to as wide a mainstram audience as possible.
> [...] I've long held the belief that feminism was reflected with an immediacy and intensity in pop culture way before it was reflected anywhere else - I think there's so much empirical evidence to support that belief that it hardly need be pointed out - and certainly before patriarchal Western society began to shift to accommodate the increasing demands of women for more mobility, opportunity, and legal autonomy.
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