Playing with some new music tonight, and doing some music-related surfing. Happened upon a song by John Lennon and was horrified by the title, and of course had to read the accompanying lyrics to find out how the hell this “man of peace” could have gotten away with this! Well, I have to say- they’re pretty good. Probably not a song I could go around singing (and not just because I have never heard the tune lol), but all the same- I can still copy and paste “the ‘N’ word”, right?
“Woman is the Nigger of the World”, by John Lennon
Woman is the nigger of the world,
Yes she is…think about it.
Woman is the nigger of the world,
Think about it…do something about it.We make her paint her face and dance,
If she won’t be a slave, we say that she don’t love us,
If she’s real, we say she’s trying to be a man
While putting her down we pretend that she’s above us,Woman is the nigger of the world,
Yes she is
If you don’t believe me,
Take a look at the one you’re with
Woman is the slave of the slaves
Ah yeh…better scream about it.We make her bear and raise our children,
And then we leave her flat for being a fat old mother hen
We tell her home is the only place she should be,
Then we complain that she’s too unworldly to be our friend.Woman is the nigger of the world,
Yes she is.
If you don’t believe me, take a look at the one you’re with.
Woman is the slave to the slaves
Yeh(think about it)We insult her every day on TV
And wonder why she has no guts or confidence
When she’s young we kill her will to be free,
While telling her not to be so smart we put her down for being
so dumb.Woman is the nigger of the world
Yes she is
If you don’t believe me, take a look at the one you’re with.
Woman is the slave to the slaves.
Yes she is,
If you don’t believe me, you better scream about it.REPEAT:
We make her paint her face and dance…
Of course, that’s not to say blacks aren’t still considered this by way too many people, but coming out of this exact situation as a woman, it’s just… uncanny? Not ‘refreshing’. ‘Funny’ in the odd (but unfortunately still common) sort of way. An appreciated association.
Made by a man, no less.
There seems to be hope yet.
