Could a Guy Possibly Get Away with these Song Lyrics?
A guy finds out his girlfriend is cheating on him. He imagines her cheating with another guy. He finds her car and keys it. He has carved his name into her leather seats. With a bat, he violently knocks out the headlights, and then he slashes her tires.
Imagine all this to upbeat country lyrics. Without a doubt NOW, the Elizabeth Freeman Center, and virtually every women’s group would be going ballistic. Take back the night, they would cry. It would be on the news about the glorification of violence against women. Talking heads would shake their heads in disbelief, with a stiff upper lip.
But when a woman is the perpetrator of the violence, well, it’s a cute little country song. Currently Carrie Underwood has a country hit with such violent lyrics. And it’s treated as a cute country song. The song became a #1 country hit in 2006 and still gets wide play on many country stations
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