post seventeen.

In class, we talked about misogyny in music and culture. We listened to the Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar" and "Stupid Girl", which blatantly degraded females (and in the case of the former, African-American girls) and somehow received little to no censorship, while songs like Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds by The Beatles, not at all about drugs, were banned from the radio. Mr. A said it's because the Stones were "the bad boys" of rock 'n roll, so it was somehow acceptable for them to sing these degrading lyrics about women. Personally, I don't think it has anything to do with that, I think it's just the fact that women weren't respected in the sixties, so no one really cared about the subject matter.
Women are degraded in many ways even now, for example, I brought up the restaurant Hooters, where the uniform is a tanktop that is very tight and low cut, and shorts that go maybe a few inches down the wearer's thighs. People don't go there for the food, let's be honest, they go there to ogle the women that are there in desperate hopes of making money, selling their bodies out to be stared out by middle aged men. Personally, I think that's degrading towards women, but it doesn't really matter what I think, because it's still out there and people think that's acceptable.