When Girls aloud refer to the femininity as their Biology, is that Synecdoche or Metonymy?

Question

I get the two confused.

PS. Girls Aloud are an English pop group. The song in question was called Biology.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Personally I would say it's a pars pro toto, in that it uses the whole for a part.

No, I'm not an intellectual, I've got the scars to prove it.

I heard the chorus so i didn't have to go looking up the lyrics either!

Do I get a biscuit now?

I think Girls Aloud are better to look at than listen to anyway,.

Answer 3

The thing I like most about this question is not that I know the answer, nor that I understand all the words contained therewithin, rather that it will have more intellectuals than ever before simultaneously looking up the lyrics to Girls Aloud tunes.

Well done questioner.

Answer 4

Synecdoche.

It’s a complicated question though, and partly because you use the word ‘femininity’. I shall attempt a quick (but inevitably ugly) explanation.

Synecdoche is when a part is used to refer to the whole. So if the concept of “femininity” is made up of both biology (s*x) and society (gender), then Girls Aloud are using a part (biology) to refer to the whole (femininity).

However, synecdoche is also when the whole is used to refer to the part. And if Girls Aloud are referring to the fact that they are of the female s*x by using the word ‘biology’, and biology is not just about s*x but a whole host of other things, then they are using the whole (biology) to refer to a part (s*x).

So, as you can see, it’s not even worth thinking about. It’s definitely synecdoche though, either way. It’s not metonymy, where a word that's commonly associated with the whole (but is not a part of it) is used to refer to the whole (because biology is not just “commonly associated with” but is (arguably) an integral part of “femininity”).

There's no point in thinking about it anyway. All we need to know about the song is how stupid it is:

"The way that we talk,

The way that we walk,

So easily caught

- You can’t mistake my biology."

So what your telling me, Girls Aloud, is "we're s***s because we were born that way".

NO, YOU SLAGS! Sluttiness doesn't run in the family - you BECAME s***s. Good God.