What It Feels Like for a Girl "turning the tables of violence back on the men for whom such behavior is considered "normal" and putting them on the receiving end of violence, a position usually reserved for women". They noticed that unlike previous Madonna videos which were banned for religious themes or sexuality, MTV found violence as an offence. Even using the remix in the clip changed the song's feminine and bittersweet nature to something faster and harder, adjectives usually reserved for boys. The authors concluded that as always, Madonna inverted the traditional roles and characterization of male and female in the clip. "What It Feels Like
What It's Like the character in the preceding verse. Each character is presented in a sympathetic light as a victim of circumstance and as being an object of derision. Each verse ends with the line "God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in his/her shoes" (in the third verse, ""...you ever had to wake up to hear the news"") and "Cause then you really might know what it's like to", with the action varying depending on what the character has to do ("sing the blues," "have to choose," and "have to lose," respectively) The characters are: The speaker attempts to build