Woman is the Nigger of the World

[Ripley]

Woman is the Nigger of the World
John Lennon


Woman is the nigger of the world
Yes she is...think about it
Woman is the nigger of the world
Think about it...do something about it

We make her paint her face and dance
If she won’t be slave, we say that she don’t love us
If she’s real, we say she’s trying to be a man
While putting her down we pretend that she is above us

Woman is the nigger of the world...yes she is
If you don’t believe me take a look to the one you’re with
Woman is the slaves of the slaves
Ah yeah...better scream about it

We make her bear and raise our children
And then we leave her flat for being a fat old mother then
We tell her home is the only place she would be
Then we complain that she’s too unworldly to be our friend

Woman is the nigger of the world...yes she is
If you don’t believe me take a look to the one you’re with
Woman is the slaves of the slaves
Yeah (think about it)

We insult her everyday on TV
And wonder why she has no guts or confidence
When she’s young we kill her will to be free
While telling her not to be so smart we put her down for being so dumb

Woman is the nigger of the world...yes she is
If you don’t believe me take a look to the one you’re with
Woman is the slaves of the slaves
Yes she is...if you believe me, you better scream about it.

We make her paint her face and dance
We make her paint her face and dance
We make her paint her face and dance


"Woman is the Nigger of the World" was a 1972 song by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. The phrase was originally coined by Ono during a magazine interview in 1967. Lennon later said it took him until 1970 to 'dig it'.

While John Lennon is responsible for the single, his phrase was not at the time deemed to be racist, nor was it his intent.

The song lambasts the traditional role of woman's subservience to man across all cultures. It was banned from radio airplay because of the word 'nigger' although many prominent blacks, including Dick Gregory, spoke out in defense of the song.

Considering this:

(The private war of women soldiers)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x377121

and the myriad of other blatantly hateful threads towards half the world's population, um. Maybe there's a problem.

[bryant69]

1. That's a hateful thread against women?

I thought the op was bringing attention to a serious problem. Did I miss something? I am a white male, incidentally.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[cwydro]

3. check out one of the comments from a

new "DUer" in that thread.

[Tyler Durden]

4. You're becoming quite a pot stirrer.

What's up? Getting to a "Post number milestone?"

Yep, you missed something. And I'm a white male too.

[bryant69]

6. I was under the impression this was a discussion board not an agreement board

But I am willing to concede I might be wrong. You just let me know when I'm allowed to express disagreement with you and when I'm not allowed to.

Bryant

[wryter2000]

5. I certainly agree about the op and most of the comments

There's one truly obnoxious reply in that thread, from someone with 80 posts. Hmmmm.

[candidate]

11. Obnoxious?

Encouraging women to be prepared to defend themselves is obnoxious?

Wow.

[EFerrari]

2. It's actually a revision of Zora Neale Hurston:

"Black women are the mules of the world."

Edit: I got that wrong. Here is the quotation:

“Honey, the nigger woman is the mule of the world.”

http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~ajdavis/mulepoem.htm

[bobbolink]

7. That's more like it.

It's poor folk who are at the bottom of the heap.

Some women are doing just fine.

Now, thank goodness, some blacks and Latinos are doing just fine.

It's poor folk who are the.....

Not that it matters.

[Scout]

12. you've missed the point....

poor or not, all other things being equal, the poor woman is "worse off" than the poor man.

[sandnsea]

13. Who's poor?

Minorities and women. Just because some manage to break out and do 'just fine', it doesn't mean that the underlying attitudes described in the OP aren't still there and don't keep the majority poor. Look at what they did to Teresa in 2004 for evidence that money doesn't stop sexist attacks.

[acmavm]

8. So, any guesses what the 'Candidate' is running for? Hope that

he's not that big an ass when he's campaigning.

[atommom]

9. Never mind. I figured it out.

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer this afternoon.

[Ripley]

14. Well ya know...

It's just that ONE troll that we can dismiss and sigh a relief that it was just THAT.

(My link was for the content of the OP in that thread (didn't even see Candidate before I posted)).

But of course, it isn't indicative of anything that the first response here is a guy talking about HIMSELF.

[atommom]

10. Still true, more than 30 years later. nt

[Ediacara]

15. Locking

From the DU Rules:

Do not start a new topic in order to continue a flame war from another discussion thread.