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[which_chick]

I generally like Sweet Honey in the Rock. They're interesting and have good lyrics and can sing. Generally, I like 'em.



In the song (Women Should Be) A Priority, lyrics go like this:

Women should be a priority
Respected and upheld in society
Given all the proper noteriety
Never used or abused by authority figures
...
Not taken seriously for who she needs to be

I have a problem, here. My problem is that the entire fucking thing is framed incorrectly. It's framed from the position that women have no power. It's like, when they wrote it, they were all thinking that women have to be given space and respect and power because... I guess because they can't get it for themselves.

Fuck that. I say unto you: Fuck that. Sing not to me this song of alleged female empowerment that, in its very fabric, sweeps my legs out from under me and denies me the right to empower my own damn self. Sing not to me this song.

Rather a lot of feminist thought is couched like that, using the all women need a hand up terms, and so very few women see it as an insult. ARGH. (That was me screaming.) I absolutely can't get behind any ideology that allows as how my gender needs a hand up because we're automatically (biologically?) at a disadvantage when competing with men. I am not at a disadvantage. I do not need *help*. I am not slower, weaker, dumber. I am not disadvantaged. I am NOT, damn it, and I don't want to be lumped in with people who think I am, even if they think that way en route to helping women. Ain't nobody helping me, thinking that way, no matter how nice a face they put on it.

Fuck that ideology. Fuck it.

I just can't hang with all the a hand up people. I can't. It makes my skin crawl. Maybe it's just me.