<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">On Oct 14, 2021, at 8:53 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">re possession: I am thinking of all the pop songs going back to the 1980s which feature lyrics like 'my baby', denoting women. As far as I know not even the feminists have made a big deal about that, even though it contains two slurs. I would not put up with it. bill w</span></blockquote><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I don’t think ‘my baby’ has the same connotation as ‘your woman,’ especially since the former is commonly used to refer to other genders, no? It doesn’t have the same connection with a particular gender being subordinated to another.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">That said, feminists have pointed out that many popular songs often do depict women purely as sex objects, as targets for ‘justified’ violence, and with misogyny.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Regards,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Dan</div></div></body></html>