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injest:
Thank you Thank you!!

(just slap me and call me a feminazi!!)

and I used to be such a good little girl!

 :-X ;D ;D ;)

Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: injest on April 29, 2007, 03:35:51 pm ---well, I am a little offended at the sexist attitude of a lot of country music. You always hear about rap music and how THEY treat women, but nothing is ever said about country music.
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Little Darlin', plainly you aren't "a little offended," you are a lot offended, and clearly you have a right to be.

I'm not a big listener of Country music--heck, I don't much listen to music anyway--and it's invidious to rank degrees of awfulness--but I'm guessing that even though Country might tend to objectify women, in the main it doesn't outright call them bitches and whores and advocate bashing them around, which is my impression is common in Rap?


--- Quote ---"Ride a cowboy" to me is no worse than "my baby is born and bred in the USA"

My horse was bred, my cows are bred, I MIGHT breed my dogs.....but I was NOT bred thank you very much!
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That really offends you? Isn't that strange, I never would have thought to take "born and bred" as offensive. I suppose it can be seen as an animal analogy, but I've quite commonly referred to myself as "born and bred a Lutheran" or "a Pennsylvanian born and bred," and I never took the phrase to mean anything other than "born and raised," or "born and nurtured." I guess I'd better watch where I use it!

And you just go right ahead and rant all you want. Your posts are always interesting and worth reading.  :)

injest:
I think the 'born and bred' thing is context sensitive....the song is a laundry list of his 'girls' physical attributes (reads like a laundry list) "sexy long hair, Sexy long legs" and compares her to his radio and car....(those were made in foreign countries)

and using imagery or innuendo is not much better to me...in fact it is more insidious. If you are listening to a song calling a woman a whore your thought is "That is horrible" whereas you hear some song about a teenage girl "Rocking" some old man's world your responce is "Oh it is just a song" but it is very similar in attitude. Both demean and bring women down to a sexual object; the rapper isn't talking about love...and neither is the old man, in both the female is to be used and discarded. At least in most of the rap videos I have seen the women ARE in fact women..with women's shapes and faces. In some of these country videos they use VERY young girls with about as much shape as a six year old boy!

The Sheriff told me I was sounding angry yesterday...hope I didnt come across as too witchy!

 :)

LauraGigs:

--- Quote --- Sheriff told me I was sounding angry yesterday...hope I didnt come across as too witchy!
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Uh, Bettermost and other places have been sounding boards for gay men to vent plenty of anger.  And they don't worry about (or apologize for) sounding "witchy".  Neither should you.

SFEnnisSF:
Here is the song with a BBM related You Tube video done to it.  :D 

"Save A Horse...Ride Jack Twist" 

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