Here's a folkie song about women's bodies by by Eve Decker, Rebecca Riots.
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Women's Bodies
by Eve Decker, Rebecca Riots
http://www.rebeccariots.comA piece of the history of Western Civilization
is that women were permanent children under the law
You went from your father to your husband
and you had no rights at all
Does it strike you as connected to this piece of our past
that the women of today we hold up as ideal
are without exception small, slender and youthful
No room for variation, no room to heal
Chorus:
Don't teach me to hate my body
I'm a woman I've been around a while
Don't teach me to hate my body
I have a woman's body not a child's
I stopped watching television and looking at magazines
But I still feel oppressed
by our culture's expectation of me
Don't put me on a metal scale
and tell me I'm not small enough
With furrowed brow you imply that if I'm not small
I won't be loved
(Chorus)
Let's look at the roots of this sickly tree
We're livin' in the branches of 5000 years of patriarchy
Don't let it hypnotize you remove yourself from the scene
Your body's beautiful
the problem is the context we've been in
To be independent, strong and big
threatens the status quo
It's only been 75 years since women had the vote
The laws have changed misogyny went underground
Any time you hate your body society's doing just fine
Keeping you down
(Chorus)
