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Confessions of a Deeply Ashamed Recovering Misogynist (or, the Feminism Song)

from Do Your Work by The Michael Character

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I had a reputation in college
I went to the parties, and got housed (as in shit-housed)
I tried to find somebody
To make me feel special
For a month or a week or a night or an hour
However long it took to get from
“I think I love you babe” to “well, there, I came
So I guess I’ll see you around
And I will find you in my phone
Next time I am horny and alone”
But no one ever called me slut
Except as a weird compliment and
I was protected from the scorn of others
While the women in my life walked home at night with knives
In their pockets for a sense of safety
That I took for granted nightly stumblin’ drunk through Cambridge
I’m ashamed of all the ways the patriarchy propped me up
At the expense of half of the human race, enough is enough

And if you’re a man you’d better recognize the way that shit is
And though I don’t wanna take up space, please let me finish this bit ‘cause
When your culture gives you the privilege to be//romantically reckless
Guilt free, shame free
You’ll take your weekends and spend them like me
Falling in love and pretending to be//in control
Of your freewheeling but NOT of your feelings
Just “follow your heart” and ignore that you’re dealing with
Real human people not just bodies in clothes
It’s hardly a mystery why fuckheads like me are alone
Oh now I puke a little every time I look back in shame
Like “could you maybe just touch it, I’m dyin’ here babe!”
I’ve always been part of the problem but I am trying to rectify all of them now
So remember…
Boys of the world; the girls owe you nothing and
Men of the world; the women owe you nothing x8
So all my straight male friends…
the next time you write a whiney pop punk song
About your shitty ex-girlfriend
Remember you’re participating in a long, long, long
History of men feeling entitled to
Tell a woman what’s right and what is wrong
By the standards you’ve set in this world that you think you own
In this world we don’t own

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from Do Your Work, released April 3, 2015

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It's political music, whatever. Based in Boston, MA. Absolutely willing to drive very far to play for you and five of your vaguely alternative friends in your combination kitchen/laundry room. Hit me up. I'm fully serious.

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