The stalkers musical collection

[Twisted Sister]

I have been noticing the numbers of musical lyrics that actually promote and very happy to sing about stalking (and various other abuse tactics).

I feel like I shouldn’t still be feeling shocked that noone seems to publicly decry such lyrics of relentless pursuit, but yet I still am shocked by them.

Things like refusing to accept a no, so will ask over and over and over until it’s a yes [to dating a girl], and that’s all fine and great song lyrics for the world to hear (talking girls and women hearing such awful stuff and even singing along to it – I’ve obviously not quoted the exact words or naming the artists, but enough to give you the gist of it).   Another one of finding him appearing all over the place and popping up in all the places you go!

Why is it that this is still tolerated, and welcomed, celebrated even in joining in with the songs and dancing to them, when if you applied comparable lyrics to any other discriminatory language at another discriminated against group there would be outrage and marches in the streets, loud and vociferous campaigning, yet male misogyny still persists and is unconciously digested in all it’s forms for us females.

I know I’m not saying anything new here, but just is it any wonder that women and girls’ boundaries are so eroded and often barely existent!

Keep strong out there gals.

ts

[Lisa]

Hi TS,

Thank you for sharing this post with us.

Best wishes,

Lisa

[Cherries]

Every breath you take (detail removed by Moderator)…common wedding song at one point.

(detail removed by Moderator) but yeah it’s so common we are blind to it

[Twisted Sister]

oh yes, Cherries, I have heard that one mentioned before too, and also hadn’t really heard the lyrics in that way before, but once you know you can’t hear it any other way.  It’s like the abuse more generally, like once you take of your rose-tinted glasses you can’t not see it, isn’t it!

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