toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoWhat's your favorite song lyric?message-squaremessage-square162linkfedilinkarrow-up1105arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1103arrow-down1message-squareWhat's your favorite song lyric?toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square162linkfedilinkfile-text
Doesn’t matter if the song as a whole is your favorite, I’m just curious what line really stood out to you in a good way.
minus-squarevelma@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up17·10 days ago"Sexual violence doesn’t start and end with rape It starts in our books and behind our school gates Men are scared women will laugh in their face Whereas women are scared it’s their lives men will take" Idles - Mother I cried the first time I heard this song.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 days agoSeems to be a take on the Margaret Atwood quote. Courtney Barnett has a similar line where she admits to basically taking the quote word for word: I want to walk in the park in the dark, men are scared that women will laugh at them I want to walk in the park in the dark, women are scared that men will kill them
minus-squarevelma@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 days agoIt’s a common sentiment among women and feminists for sure. There was something particularly moving about hearing it from an all male band.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 days agoFor sure. I just thought it was worth pointing out that it originated with a quote from a lecture by Margaret Atwood https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/188039-men-are-afraid-that-women-will-laugh-at-them-women Though I’m sure it’s possible that she heard it from somewhere else
minus-squarevelma@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 days agoOh I will always support quotes from Atwood and Barnett :)
"Sexual violence doesn’t start and end with rape
It starts in our books and behind our school gates
Men are scared women will laugh in their face
Whereas women are scared it’s their lives men will take"
Idles - Mother
I cried the first time I heard this song.
Seems to be a take on the Margaret Atwood quote. Courtney Barnett has a similar line where she admits to basically taking the quote word for word:
It’s a common sentiment among women and feminists for sure. There was something particularly moving about hearing it from an all male band.
For sure. I just thought it was worth pointing out that it originated with a quote from a lecture by Margaret Atwood
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/188039-men-are-afraid-that-women-will-laugh-at-them-women
Though I’m sure it’s possible that she heard it from somewhere else
Oh I will always support quotes from Atwood and Barnett :)