Saturated with sex stereotypes gender roles reinforce inferiority
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Exploiting anatomy, exploiting sexuality, preying on insecurities
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Force fed proper mannerisms, treated different from the date of birth
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Raised as men's servants who should never question their own sense of worth
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Conditioning children with anorexic plastic of 'perfect' feminine traits
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Learning how to hide any blemishes, meeting standards men create
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Painting flesh like painting a picture that subliminally suggests
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To equally conditioned men that women are just there for sex
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Striving to achieve the super model image the media project
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Spending countless hours enhancing a look instead of self respect
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Eating disorders insuring beauty and endangering health
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When living life behind a mask you cant expect to know yourself
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When women are taught one way to act and men are taught another
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The ability to accept and tolerate is absent from each other
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Without understanding or communication the result too often is
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Bigotry by ignorance unintended prejudice
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Any man that would treat a woman as property you keep
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is nothing but an ignorant bigot that can only see skin deep
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having a relationship of inequality, treating a woman as a possession
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taking advantage of devotion using emotions as a weapon
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violating another's personal rights as if they never mattered
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every day that begins with this conditioning ends with another woman battered
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taught how to act, taught how to think
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taught how to feel, told by another gender
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sexist appeal dehumanizes women molding an image
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making the body more important then what the person is
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taught to pretend, taught to please
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taught to conceal, told that you must surrender
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sexist appeal demoralizes men, distoriting their view
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making the body the most important part to pursue
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initiating a chase that relies on deception
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hoping persistant efforts will overcome rejection
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conditioned by images lusting for sex
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haunting men's thoughts of who they'll bed next
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taught how to act, taught how to think
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taught how to feel, told by another gender
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sexist appeal dehumanizes women by abusing sexuality
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another person's body shouldn't be viewed as a trophy
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taught to pretend, taught to please
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taught how to feel, told that you must surrender
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sexist appeal demoralizes men, encouraging rape
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another persons body is never for anyone else to take
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treating a fellow person without any respect
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condemning behavior as if the woman asked for it
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society's distorted our judgement with what they suggest
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why take no for an answer when no really means yes
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[Woman's part]
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we've heard it all so many times before
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stop treating women like some trashy cheap whore
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or a virgin that must lead to a sterile life
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a surrogate mother under the disguise of the word wife
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they make the rules but yet they don't play fair
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forcing sexual stereotypes that make us all aware
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of every single one of our failures in the eyes of society
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telling me that I'm not quite what I'm supposed to be
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I'm not married with two children or single with a career
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I'm not drowning in some mortagage or living in financial fear
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I don't cower as I walk home all alone throughout the streets
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I refuse to be treated like a piece of trumped up meat
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I turn away from the billboards that extol the latest fad
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Of looking like a junkie in the Calvin Klein ad
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Now its time to get beyond all of our rage and pointing fingers
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To see through the lies no matter how much it lingers
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[Man's part]
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As long as I can remember ive been a victim of mans lies
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And in turn ive victimized women through ignorant naive eyes
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When overlooking personality in the person im seeing
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Then my attraction becomes the exploitation of another human being
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In my heart I know equality but conditioning affects my brain
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So without complete understanding oppression will remain
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For as enlightened as I may consider myself I still have much to learn
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And since actually achieving equality still is a concern
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I must open my mind to the opinions that women would suggest
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Because theyre the ones who understand sexual op |