If you've never heard the white stripes, you've missed some good tunes. This little snippet below is from off of their latest album,
Get Behind Me Satan and it expresses a point of view that I think is missing in a lot of popular culture. One of the ironies of feminism is that, in wanting carte blanche equality with males, much of the older unwritten codes of male chivalry had to go. Now no one seriously would fight the old feminist fight for equal pay for equal work, but you might want to ask the modern female aged 16 to 35 if she's joyful at the loss of courtesy, honour, and gallantry toward women? Of course, males experience things differently than women -- and vice versa; but if males are raised to treat women as equals -- that is, as the boy himself would wish to be treated -- then you start to get an increase in date rape and other things where the male was just acting out this type of 'equality'. This song is cool in that it tries to reassert the old, noble of view of women and how a girl ought to be treated
differently than a boy would want to be. It would seem that feminism has outgrown its usefulness, and has in fact contributed to the lessening of the nobility in the male human. Men need to relearn what is manly, and women need to diligently guard what is womanly so as not to be thought of as anything other than a woman and to be honored for it. Such are my thoughts on this song by the white stripes; the message it carries is sound and worthy of all ears in our times of confusion about gender roles. Here's the snippet of this funky and pertinent tune:
If you think that a kiss is all in the lips
C'mon, you got it all wrong, man
And if you think that our dance was all in the hips
Oh well, then do the twist
If you think holding hands is all in the fingers
Grab hold of the soul where the memory lingers and
Make sure to never do it with a singer
Cause he'll tell everyone in the world
What he was thinking about the girl
Ya, what he's thinking about the girl, oh
A lot of people get confused and they bruise
Real easy when it comes to love
They start putting on their shoes and walking out
And singing "boy, I think I had enough"
Just because she makes you feel wrong
She don't mean to be mean or hurt you on purpose, boy
Take a tip and do yourself a little service
Take a mountain turn it into a mole
Just by playing a different role
Ya, by playing a different role, oh
The boat ya you know she's rockin' it...
If you've never heard the white stripes, you've missed some good tunes. This little snippet below is from off of their latest album, Get Behind Me Satan and it expresses a point of view that I think is missing in a lot of popular culture. One of the ironies of feminism is that, in wanting carte blanche equality with males, much of the older unwritten codes of male chivalry had to go. Now no one seriously would fight the old feminist fight for equal pay for equal work, but you might want to ask the modern female aged 16 to 35 if she's joyful at the loss of courtesy, honour, and gallantry toward women? Of course, males experience things differently than women -- and vice versa; but if males are raised to treat women as equals -- that is, as the boy himself would wish to be treated -- then you start to get an increase in date rape and other things where the male was just acting out this type of 'equality'. This song is cool in that it tries to reassert the old, noble of view of women and how a girl ought to be treated differently than a boy would want to be. It would seem that feminism has outgrown its usefulness, and has in fact contributed to the lessening of the nobility in the male human. Men need to relearn what is manly, and women need to diligently guard what is womanly so as not to be thought of as anything other than a woman and to be honored for it. Such are my thoughts on this song by the white stripes; the message it carries is sound and worthy of all ears in our times of confusion about gender roles. Here's the snippet of this funky and pertinent tune: 
1 comment:
I agree, Thomas. Chivalry is extremely manly.
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