ziua barbatului, yaaay

si ca tot am amintit din nou “ziua barbatului”, eu ma gindeam s-o sarbatoresc azi. de ce azi? hm, dar de ce nu?

deci cu ocazia acestei zile, cintece feministe de trupele mele preferate de tipi feministi:

[andreea i-a mai citat pe unii aici]

  • fugazi:
    [ok, ian zice – in don’t need you, de ex. – ca el nu e sigur ca e “feminist” ca nu-i place sa se eticheteze dar ii spun eu, este; iar guy a produs ultimul album al the gossip, enough said]

“suggestion” (13 songs, 1989)

Why can’t i walk down a street free of suggestion?
Is my body the only trait in the eyes of men?
I’ve got some skin
You want to look in
There lays no reward in what you discover
You spent yourself watching me suffer
Suffer you words, suffer your eyes, suffer your hands
Suffer your interpretation of what it is to be a man
I’ve got some skin
You want to look in
She does nothing to deserve it
He only wants to observe it
We sit back like they taught us
We keep quiet like they taught us
He just wants to prove it
She does nothing to remove it
We don’t want anyone to mind us
So we play the roles that they assigned us
She does nothing to conceal it
He touches her ’cause he wants to feel it
We blame her for being there
But we are all guilty

 

“refusing to be a man” (less talk, more rock, 1996)

I’m not going to try to tell you that I’m different from all the rest. I’ve been subject to the same de-structure of desire and I’ve felt the same effects; I’m a hetero-sexist tragedy. And potential rapists all are we. But don’t tell me this is natural. This is nurturing. And there’s a difference between sexism and sexuality. I had different desires prior to my role-remodelling. And at six years of age you don’t challenge their claims. You become the same. (Or withdraw from the game and hang your head in shame). I think that’s exactly what I did. I tried to sever the connections between me and them. I fought against their further attempts to convince a kid that birthright can bestow the power to yield the subordination of women and do you know what patricentricity means? I found out just a couple of days/months/years/minutes ago. It means male values uber alles and hey! Whaddaya know… sex has been distorted and vilified. I’m scared of my attraction to body types. If everything desired is objectified then maybe eroticism needs to be redefined. And I refuse to be a “man”.

“ladies’ night in loserville” (today’s empires, tomorrow’s ashes, 2001)

Drains her fifth and spits out a greek translation*. She slurs “how much more bullshit you got left? Cuz you been feeding me this crap about ‘free speech’ and ‘thought-police’ like I’m supposed to sit and swoon”. It takes three more rounds till the subject changes and in that time she lays it down: “Fuck Larry Flynt and any campaign to silence women standing up and fighting back. And I fuck to cum, so don’t lay your ‘repressed’ shit on me. I fuck to cum. Fuck your blessed Trinity. I’m so sick of needle-dicks and (selective) first-amendments. I can out-think, out-drink, out-fuck-you-all so fuck your bullshit ‘femi-nazi’ crap, no needle-dick’s gonna silence me. I fuck to cum.”

* graphos = graphic depiction, pornos = female sexual slave

 

“man against man” (lucky, 1999)

Fuck Marxism
Fuck Socialism
Fuck Capitalism
Fuck Anarchism
White man’s got a whole lot of solutions
White man’s got a whole lot of problems
White man’s got a lot of bright ideas
White man likes to play God
White man says, he says that God is a white man.
Everybody else and everything else gets systematically objectified
White man says, he says that nature is not a part of God.
Fuck Communism
Fuck Democracy
Fuck science
Fuck reason and rationality
White man’s got a whole lot of solutions
White man’s got a whole lot of problems
White man’s got a lot of bright ideas
White man likes to play God
White man says, he says that God is a white man.
Everybody else and everything else gets systematically objectified
White man says, he says nature is not a part of God
White man’s got progress, but its only pollution
White man’s got technology, it’s only confusion
White man’s got Nature yeah, and he’s got the papers to prove it
White man’s got a bomb and he’s stupid enough to use it
White man says, he says that God is a white man
Everybody else and everything else gets systematically objectified
White man says, he says nature is not a part of God
To kill her becomes justified
White man says, yellow man, red man, black man they are not a part of God
To kill them becomes justified
Man against God
Man against Nature
Man against Woman
Man against Child
Man against Man
[inspired by the writings of Russell Means]

“i am a man” (lucky, 1999)

A man should be mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally available
To his partner
A man should be mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally available
To his children
A man should be mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally available
To his community
A man should be mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally available
To the other children in his community
I’m a man,
At least I think I am
A man should be mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally available to his partner
A man should be mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally available to his children
A man should be mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally available to his community
A man should be mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally available to the other children in his community
A man should abandon Power Over
A man should embrace the notion of Power Of
A man should abandon Power Over
A man should embrace the notion of Power Of
I’m a man,
At least I think I am

 

“en mi opinion” (los crudos/spitboy split lp, 1995)

Hay que valiente que sos.
Mira, que fuerte que sos.
Abusando a las mujeres.
Nunca mereces el respeto.

En mi opinion, No vales nada.
En mi opinion, sos una mierda.

Sos el mas macho del barrio
Sos el mas chingon por aqui
Cojiendo todo que te enfrenta

Pobre desgraciado, todo tu vita te malcriaron,
Mal educado, siempre te ensenaron con el puno,
Y es la unica manera que conoces.
Y es la unica forma que comprendes

A gritos te comunicas con la gente
Las cachetadas y los golpes son tu idiom
Amenazando a todos en tu vida
Abusando a la gente que no lo necesita

En mi opinion, No vales nada
En mi opinion, Sos una mierda.

 

  • bonus: versurile si intro-ul la o piesa de cipher
  • “venom” (children of god’s fire, 2005)

    “Liberal” western society continues to reinforce antiquated gender norms and the oppressive sex and gender binaries. Norms, inherent components of our relationships, inject venom that distorts the humanity of women, and threatens their autonomy. Men, you must fall back, as women develop autonomous spaces. Women, live boldly; unapologetically and lovingly make revolution. Meanwhile, we all must confess our parasitic relationships with patriarchy. Somehow, through this struggle, we can link-up in solidarity.
    Popular unrest snuffed up with just one touch. A love that’s unjust. A knot that undoes. In the womb the blood christened by bickering that beckons the coming… LIKE COWS FOR THE FATTENING. SHOW PIGS IN OBLIVION, LIES! Traditions of mutilation is futile hatred of the fertile pearl in the person of the universal matron. INTERNALIZE HATRED. CLOUDING HUMAN REASON, DIE! Women and men with venom that both poisons men and women but crushes the women and ushers in male dominion. Ready for the new war fought inside this sickened, mangled, tortured, gendered vision. We don’t need a program. We don’t need a time. Total revolution. Wash away these crimes. We don’t need to reform an evil system that needs to be destroyed, whose architects need to be tried for evil and lies. We don’t need this sickened, mangled, tortured, twisted gendered vision no more. Woman couldn’t have a love of your own. Hell’s patterns of speech is his. Tell Adam to keep his ribs. Women have enough broken bones. Wouldn’t matter if he opposed the beast until women rose and took the throne. And beaconed him to push and grow. Everything they took we hold. Practically all we own is actually all a loan. We’re practically all alone. Estranged from two mothers, the same as each other: Earth and the one with x and y chromosomes. Why go alone into the unknown of being free of this privilege of denying pain that preexists and jump into the abyss? Deal with it: that suffering and pain the venom leaves inside you. Blood let till what remains is what feeds inside you. Still grasping for panic. You wanted this, have it. To honor this, ‘pon it bring automatic ravage to all the manic addicts, addicted to venom. Christened by the bickering that beckons the coming… HIS IS THE UNWHOLE WAY. TAUGHT THAT WEAKNESS SHOWS YOUR LOVE! Learn manhood from the father that talks with clinched fist often, and walks relentless over the one that bore these helpless offspring. HER LIMB LANGUISHES TRAGIC. BROUGHT TO FORGET WHO SHE WAS! A womb bearer that would soon fear her own partner is a wound wearer that would soon impair her own daughter. Both are utter subjects to the power order we scorn! All of us slaves to a condition of tradition supported by cash commission and addiction for subordination. Patriarchy is the coordination of hatred. Vomit it up. Just let it fall! On top the churches. On top the nations. On top the weapons. On top this mission. Free all the children. Free all the prisoners. Free all the verses. Free all the willing. Arm us with knowledge. Arm us with rifles. Arm us with passion. Bring down Babylon.

8 thoughts on “ziua barbatului, yaaay

  1. :) eu iubesc toate trupele astea (cu fugazi in frunte), dar “refusing to be a man” de propagandhi e probabil cintecul meu preferat, sau oricum in primele 5 – cred ca citez versurile alea o data la doua zile sau cam asa ceva! :) (si-si-si: eu eram la show-ul de la care e filmarea respectiva!!).

  2. Si unii din preferatii mei,pe langa cei enumerati mai sus:

    Policy of 3 – Space Cadet

    they push
    but she`s to weak to shove
    every minute
    every minute
    she rips and tears
    i can`t look
    no , i can`t stare
    how can they watch
    the color of her hair
    red is flowing
    from the waist down
    you lying mother fucker
    i can`t believe what you`ve done
    you lying mother fucker
    i can`t beleive there was one
    another quasi for me
    another gain for you
    a day in hell for me
    a walk in the park for you
    i can`t look
    i can`t stare

  3. completez si eu cu ceva versuri ce s’ar potrivi pe’aici:

    Born Against [desi nu’s tocmai *tipi feministi* avand in vedere ca si melissa york a trecut prin trupa asta] – Witness To A Rape

    Witness to a crime but I lost track of the times violence against women
    against half of humankind meshed with our culture part of our civilization
    ground in to our faces part of our indoctrination no one seems to question
    when we’re brought up in a system where we’re taught to hate the other through
    false desires my own language betrays my good intentions forces my head into
    the shit into the lies and I’m told take part in the fantasy when every six
    minutes it comes true and I’m told what I want what I need and yeah I want it
    yeah I need it rape force fed the lie for all my life that woman has her place
    and it’s only skindeep like as many flanks of meat up for inspection to be
    judged on a scale of one to ten.

  4. 7 SECONDS LYRICS

    “Not Just Boys’ Fun”

    Man you’ve gotta problem, who made you fuckin’ king
    A macho pig with nothing in your head.
    No girls around you, their place is not at gigs,
    Don’t want ’em on the dance floor ‘cos they’re weak.
    A woman’s place, the kitchen, on her back,
    It’s time to change that attitude, and quick.
    [Chorus]
    Showing us your phobias, you’re scared to see ’em think,
    You’d rather dress ’em up in pretty lace,
    All nice and colored pink.
    You feel so fucking threatened,
    When they stand out in front,
    A stupid, passive piece of meat is all you really want
    But it’s:
    Not just boys’ fun [4x]
    There’s girls who put out fanzines, others put on shows,
    Yet they’re not allowed to get out on the floor.
    Some make the music, well that you can accept.
    Hell, maybe live you’ll get some tits and ass
    You fucking moron, your brains have run amuck,
    A girl’s only lot in life is not to fuck!
    [Repeat Chorus]

  5. consolidated, “no answer for a dancer”:

    it was after the show and i’m loading out the van
    it could’ve been anywhere but in this case atlanta
    a woman walks up while i’m packing
    she says have you got a minute i say yeah just a second
    how are you did you enjoy the show
    she said i did but i still have a question though
    ‘cuz some of your remarks were confusing
    especially the ones about pornography and prostitution
    now let me understand this
    that for women and children this is violence
    well i appreciate the messages you’re giving
    but i happen to dance for a living
    and i want to know why you want to be my voice
    try to take away that which should be my choice
    to seek some meaningful and gainful employment
    even if it means giving dirty old men enjoyment
    now exploitation of anyone is wrong i agree
    but this doesn’t apply to me
    i’ve never been harassed while i work and my bottom line’s phat
    now sir can you deal with that

    you could already call the situation
    i wasn’t even speculating about her occupation
    but this debate’s insane
    and i was on the spot so i had to try to explain
    her points were intelligent and simple
    and i’m already feeling like mr. guilty white liberal
    just try to be sensitive
    don’t act like i have any advice to give
    let me make it clear i support you
    in a man’s world a woman does what she’s got to
    if this is your profession
    your sexual expression
    your internalized oppression
    hey i won’t doubt you
    my only problem is with a society
    that forces women into sexual commodity
    where a third of all women are known
    to be sexually abused before they’re grown
    the most raped most homeless and addicted
    if this job were described to you would you have picked it

    average age fourteen
    hell yes obscene
    made to look aroused by pain
    children being raped with guns and knives
    that ain’t speech but the taking of innocent’s lives
    if you happen to be the exception that’s cool
    but let’s consider the overwhelming rule

    we parted ways with no resolution
    you could go back and forth and never find a solution
    the only point i wanted to make to her
    is while all the liberals and pornographers
    decide where the line between porn and erotica is
    this is what prostitution really is
    a question of censorship alright
    of women’s and children’s basic rights
    and there’s no first amendment protection
    for those unable to raise an objection
    if they weren’t silenced they’d sound an alarm
    and we’d all know the difference between speech and harm
    you want to mutilate yourself on film that’s your choice
    but can we protect those without a voice
    i’d never get in your face
    i just don’t want you to end up like linda lovelace
    the bottom line is i’m a man
    and i listen to you because i could never understand
    and i haven’t got shit to say
    but if i don’t say anything
    well how long will it be this way

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