Comments on: Misogynist Songs #1: Wives & Lovers http://www.feministfred.com/archives/130 Radical feminism for humans with male parts. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:40:44 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: sonia http://www.feministfred.com/archives/130/comment-page-1#comment-721 sonia Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:09:29 +0000 http://www.feministfred.com/?p=130#comment-721 funny! it is hard being a feminist and a music lover, isn't it? I have a Guns and Roses penchant, and it's just embarrassing. I also love James Bond? sense of humor required within limits I guess.. funny!

it is hard being a feminist and a music lover, isn’t it? I have a Guns and Roses penchant, and it’s just embarrassing. I also love James Bond?

sense of humor required within limits I guess..

]]> By: Shiny http://www.feministfred.com/archives/130/comment-page-1#comment-706 Shiny Thu, 07 May 2009 10:42:29 +0000 http://www.feministfred.com/?p=130#comment-706 The sad thing is most women would defend the premise of this song either with evo psych pseudoscience ("Because men are so visual!") or reaffirming the threat ("If you don't do it, someone else will." Translation: "You're nothing without a man"). Of course, they probably won't mention the fact that women who do comply with this dictum still get insulted ("Men need space!") or cheated on ("Men need variety!")--and that it's always at the man's behest to define exactly how the woman is failing. But, rest assured, it is all the woman's fault always, always, always. Women accept these premises because being the constant scapegoat carries a lesser penalty than being a threat to the established order. PS I enjoy your blog FWIW. I have had a very, very bad week in terms of just the sheer amount of oppression that men heap on women, and it is nice to think there are men in this world who actually have a problem with that. All too few of them, unfortunately, but it does keep me from vomiting at the mere thought of men, which is the direction in which I was rapidly heading. The sad thing is most women would defend the premise of this song either with evo psych pseudoscience (”Because men are so visual!”) or reaffirming the threat (”If you don’t do it, someone else will.” Translation: “You’re nothing without a man”). Of course, they probably won’t mention the fact that women who do comply with this dictum still get insulted (”Men need space!”) or cheated on (”Men need variety!”)–and that it’s always at the man’s behest to define exactly how the woman is failing. But, rest assured, it is all the woman’s fault always, always, always. Women accept these premises because being the constant scapegoat carries a lesser penalty than being a threat to the established order.

PS I enjoy your blog FWIW. I have had a very, very bad week in terms of just the sheer amount of oppression that men heap on women, and it is nice to think there are men in this world who actually have a problem with that. All too few of them, unfortunately, but it does keep me from vomiting at the mere thought of men, which is the direction in which I was rapidly heading.

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