I have a certain fondness for old-timey hillbilly music, the kind of stuff you can find on any number of great compilations on Yazoo records. But sometimes, alas, the lyrics to the songs reflect some old-timey bigotries that are much less charming than the music itself. Poking around on YouTube earlier today looking for the stuff I ran across this little ditty:
The lyrics:
Well, it’s a shame to whip your wife on Sunday.
Yes, it’s a shame to whip your wife on Sunday.
When you’ve got Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
It’s a shame to whip your wife on Sunday.
It’s a shame to get drunk on Sunday.
Yes, it’s a shame to get drunk on Sunday.
When you’ve got Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
It’s a shame to get drunk on Sunday.
Pity about the lyrics, because it’s got such a nice little banjo riff.
Cleanse your ears out with this song, a perky little number called “Hallelujah to the Lamb,” that I think would leave even Satan himself tapping his cloven hooves.
reminder that in the thread about the girl who reddit didn’t believe even after she posted pictures of her facial abrasions, meller got put in time out for saying he had no choice but to disbelieve anything she said because her history of having worn make-up meant she want inherently deceptive.
He’s also been in Time Out Corner after his lovely response to Itiliana when he said her student that was killed by her ex MUST have done something to deserve it.
Such an ally!
I have no problem surmounting bitterness, Meller. Surmounting my right to be a thinking, feeling human being, on the other hand…..
No, no, he just typo’d the word alley — ie. he is claiming to be a sketchy dim tube full of garbage and human feces that cheerfully enables crimes to be committed in his vicinity. So perfectly accurate, in fact.
You are no ally to me, Meller. In your dream world I’d either be dead or forced into working in a brothel (I wasn’t a virgin when I got married, after all).
” I celebrate gentleness, love, and patience in all relationships with women, both in and out of bed, and I wish them the best in their relationship.”
You don’t, you know. You may tell yourself lies and believe them, but in fact you constantly celebrate the idea of hurting women who you think deserve to be hurt.
” I don’t have to tell you what I would expect a man to do to you if youall were to him the way you manboobzeresses sound to me here! I would still regard your beating as reprehensible and barbaric, to say the least, but it would be VERY HARD to fault your mate or lover entirely! I don’t know how i would even vote if he would be on trial and I was on a jury, but a case for conviction would, given your attitudes of arrogant, berating, and callous hostility and self-righteousness, would NOT be airtight, and I wouldn’t be the only juryman to think so!”
See what I mean? A person who actually celebrated gentleness, love, and patience would never have written that.
You’re a monster, Meller.
reminder that in the thread about the girl who reddit didn’t believe even after she posted pictures of her facial abrasions
If you’re talking about the thread I think you’re talking about, she showed a picture of that wound after having established that she was skilled at doing special FX makeup. Cue the feminists and butthurt white knights descending like a pack of howling jackals upon anyone who even dared to bring up this point. Apparently women should always be believed without question. Remember, kids: everything a female says is true, and if you question this or ask for proof, you’re a hateful misogynist!
oh look its the desperate bleat of the unclever man, writing off anyone who dares to point out that his anger and kneejerk hostility are uncalled for is ‘butthurt’ because he doesn’t know any adult words.
i’ll take your sadsack defense under consideration.
Bro, I know you bothered to type out a comment there, but today I decided not to just believe anything a male says, so I didn’t see it.
Sorry. Maybe try typing louder?
This must be very frustrating for you.
Also, are we seriously having a referendum on “Do men ever hit women?” Seriously? Is that what we’re now tasked with proving?
Come the fuck on.
@CassandraSays
it goes beyond that. he finds great joy in imagining all the ways women he doesnt find sufficiently feminine are going to be ‘punished’ through childlessness or breast cancer or gruesome airplane crashes.
Remember, kids – Broseidon has nothing of any value to add to this or any other discussion, so feel free to just skim his comment for amusing quotes to extract for the purpose of mocking him among yourselves.
Meller is to love and gentleness as the institution of slavery was to freedom and justice.
Oh, wait, he’s in favor of that too.
Bro, I know you bothered to type out a comment there, but today I decided not to just believe anything a male says, so I didn’t see it.
That might’ve worked better if you didn’t actually answer the comment you “didn’t see”. 😛
Remember, kids – Broseidon has nothing of any value to add to this or any other discussion, so feel free to just skim his comment for amusing quotes to extract for the purpose of mocking him among yourselves.
Ok, so when’s the actual mocking gonna start? So far you’re doing a cute impression of a six-year old going “na na na you’re a dumb head” but I was hoping for more.
What do you want us to prove, Bro? That men ever hit women? That it isn’t just an urban legend?
(You should really get your misogyny straight with DKM, who claims that men do hit women, but they’re justified. Serious differences in your interpretations, Bro!)
Maybe next we could spend some of our time and effort proving to you that bananas exist, or that rabbits generally have ears.
but broseidon, you are a dumb head. it’s the best possible word to describe you. your head is full of dumb little chattering half-thoughts and percolating resentments. it’s like the most notable thing about your posts.
case in point- you call yourself broseidon, like that joke didnt go stale years ago.
Actually the word I’d use for Broseidon is boring. I don’t come to this site to be bored, therefore his comments are of no use to me.
I’m sorry, is someone named Sharculese commenting on my nick? And hey, I know I’m not as deep (read: pompous, pretentious and wordy) as the regulars here, but it suits me fine. In fact, lately I’ve been having a hell of a time skimming through the other thread – the one where no trolls showed up, so you all turned on each other. It’s really quite a spectacle, almost as if anger and conflict are all you know. You really are a sad fucking bunch, which is why you’re fun to troll. Laterz 🙂
my name isnt a joke thats been tossed around by the bottom-feeders of internet comedy for years now. of course, you knew that, you just didnt have an actual retort.
Well, he’s right about one thing – I certainly wouldn’t call him “deep”.
it is always adorable when someone uses ‘you know a lot of words’ as an insult.
“lately I’ve been having a hell of a time skimming through the other thread – the one where no trolls showed up, so you all turned on each other.”
See I’m glad you brought this up, because I’ve been meaning to go on a rant about this little unwinnable situation.
If feminists* agree with each other, they get accused of being an echo chamber or a hive mind. If feminists disagree with each other they get accused of turning on their own and being hostile. Fuck that shit and fuck you for trying it on.
*I’ve seen the same no-win situation forced onto atheists so it’s not exclusively a feminist thing.
Actually I’d say that the fact that MRAs usually refuse to disagree with each other is far more of a flaw than lots of arguing.
But the interesting thing about the Robert Johnson song (that was me; hi) is how self-conscious it is: in attributing his desire to commit DV to demonic influence, the speaker implies that he knows that this isn’t the right way to behave.
I find the same sort of knowing darkness in a lot of Johnson’s songs, as opposed to a song like this, which takes a much more “naive” standpoint:
The third verse takes violence absolutely for granted in a way that Johnson’s “artier” song doesn’t. I know Johnson wrote a lot of the songs he sang, but I don’t know whether or not he wrote “Me and the Devil Blues.” It wouldn’t surprise me, though, since it’s so much more introspective than a lot of folk music.
Remember when DKM and Brandon were posting in the same thread, each advocating ideal worlds that the other completely disagreed with, yet they never acknowledged each other? Yeah, that is a sign of some robust discourse right there.