Is it sexist?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

So I was enjoying playing a Bob Marley song, 'Midnight Ravers' and I was thinking about singing it at an open mic. Just curious what you feminists think about these lyrics:


(You can't tell the woman from the man)
No, I say you can't, 'cause they're dressed in the same pollution;
(dressed in the same pollution)
Their mind is confused with confusion
With their problems since they've no solution:
They become the midnight ravers.


Just curious - a sensitivity check on my part.

[noiretextatique]

1. i don't think so...

if anything, i think it's saying that women are no more or less polluted than men. that's why you can't tell them apart.

[buddhamama]

2. we agree

i was thinking the same.
women have been 'forced' to assimilate to make it in the man's world and the term 'midnight ravers' represents the time when women reflect and be themselves.

[roughsatori]

3. I think he is singing about how there is an equality

in the level of spiritual degradation between men and women. At least that is what I've always thought.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

4. ditto

agreed, roughsatori.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

7. I agree with that interpretation however

I agree with that interpretation however let me enunciate the 'possible' sexist interpretation. Which is they he is saying that if there were not such spiritual degradation, women would 'know their place'. Now I'm not saying that that is my interpretation, I'm just playing Devil's Advocate.

[noiretextatique]

8. actually, i think he's saying the opposite

that is, sexism and misogyny make women crazy. and perhaps, the solution is not to emulate men.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

9. Different but equal

Different but equal - I so agree.

[noiretextatique]

10. what a concept, huh?

if only we humans could just except that. diversity...just is. no need to tolerate it or attempt to control it to benefit one group or another. if we could just accept it as natural...

[Feanorcurufinwe]

14. You nailed it.

You nailed it. The opposite of intolerance is not tolerance. It's acceptance.

[buddhamama]

12. do think "midnight ravers"

refers to women being made crazy.

[noiretextatique]

13. absolutely

:hi: i can see how that could happen...hell, i have seen that happen.

[AngryYoungMan]

5. Just don't follow it up with "Thong Song"

:)

[Skittles]

6. YES AND YOU ARE A SEXIST SOB

I..............ER...................SORRY; it's the HEAT. :(

[patdem]

11. I am a heterosexual woman who feels like a gay man

when I dress in ruffles and pinks and pumps? Or at least my imagination of what a gay man might feel like in those articles...I say that, but maybe more like how a hetrosexual man feels???

I am a heterosexual woman who feels in her skin when in pants, or a tailored skirt and opaque stockings and flats and a woman's shirt (never a blouse) or a top.