So I'm listening to old TMBG songs
Apr. 22nd, 2014 09:08 pmOld by today's standards. These are songs I never got around to until they were available for free. (
sophiaserpentia directed me to Grooveshark, which has been a revelation.)
So, tonight I'm listening to "How Can I Sing Like a Girl?":
Tell me, how can I sing like a girl
And not be objectified
As if I were a girl?
Suddenly, it came to me that men, as a conglomerate (I'm not condemning the gender as a whole [that is, as a group comprised of individuals]), cannot think of women as intellectual equals precisely because that would mean that their sexual fantasies of females, their conceptualizations of females, were implausible, wrong, unbelievable. God knows that the male gaze, the male idea of sexuality must be correct, so objectification must be a good.
If male sexuality is questioned, then the whole of masculinity is questioned & that can't be countenanced.
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So, tonight I'm listening to "How Can I Sing Like a Girl?":
Tell me, how can I sing like a girl
And not be objectified
As if I were a girl?
Suddenly, it came to me that men, as a conglomerate (I'm not condemning the gender as a whole [that is, as a group comprised of individuals]), cannot think of women as intellectual equals precisely because that would mean that their sexual fantasies of females, their conceptualizations of females, were implausible, wrong, unbelievable. God knows that the male gaze, the male idea of sexuality must be correct, so objectification must be a good.
If male sexuality is questioned, then the whole of masculinity is questioned & that can't be countenanced.