There are a lot of songs that degrade and objectify women. But i don't think I've ever actually heard a song that promotes knocking a girl on their knees and forcing them to give a man oral sex. And then i found brokeNCYDE.
Besides being a family force 5 wannabe knockoff band that tries way too hard to be cool and the fact that their music sucks in general... Their song 2drunk 2drive was particularly offensive.
TRIGGER WARNINGHere are some of the lyrics:
I will knock you down on your knees. And make you lick my penis up and down, up and down...
Up and down, back and forth, I'm making you my whore. Up and down, back and forth, girl you will be my whore...
Drink up, drunk slut, you catch up. I'm too fucked up to stand up. I don't drink to impress myself. I drink to wake up in your girlfriends house. And when I wake up in her bed. I tell that bitch to give me head. I make her lick my penis up and down, up and down...
Up and down, back and forth, I'm making you my whore. Up and down, back and forth, girl you will be my whore...
What worries me in addition to these song lyrics is the fans of this band that love this song. It's encouraging young men and boys to treat women like dirt, and perpetuating rape culture. And people eat this shit up like it's "totally awesome" (just look for the video on youtube and read some of the comments).
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That's awful! How absolutely terrible.
I should add that the lyrics sound like they were written by 12 year olds. Which is even more sickening.
I think it's revealing of how absolutely easy and predictable methods of putting a woman down are. A woman annoys you by being more intelligent/insightful/talented/whatever, so what do you do? Provide your own reasoned argument to show why you think she's wrong? Nah. Just threaten to rape her. Yay. She might have more between the ears, but she's Still A Woman, powerless before your two inches of male fury. Songs like this reassure young misogynists who are bitter at feminism that, Don't Worry Boys, Cause You Still Have The Dick with the potential to violate a woman.
Seriously, there's something utterly bewildering about why misogynistic men are so crazy about their penises. It's like a kind of... autophillia? Or a complex. We all know that penises are not as Eminem etc would have us believe, as diamond-hard rockets that could 'cause an earthquake' and 'fuck someone to death'. Mostly they're quite as vulnerable as a vulva is, they're quite as average and floppy as breasts usually are and far from being able to fuck anyone to death, they often come and then revert back to their small, limp state. Why the 'fantasy penis' of patriarchy?
"(just look for the video on youtube and read some of the comments)."
I don't recommend doing that EVER...
it's like a trainwreck, i can't help it D:`
As awful as that is, I'm torn at the same time since I'm against censorship. I also think that the whole penis complex that someone mentioned is also really interesting.
True. But vagina does have a common usage referring to the whole of the female genitalia, just as penis refers to a specific part of the male genitalia but also has a common usage referring to the whole. For example, I automatically thought of the inclusion of bedroom furniture the scrotum in Velvet Acid Christ's question about drawing a penis on her or his car.
that makes me wanna vomit