# Help me make a playlist.  Misogynist Music

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 19, 2012, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667 "2012-06-19T18:30:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/101 "2012-06-23T01:29:39Z")

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> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#):
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> Wives and Lovers (written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, sung [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0rqaRfsNfg%5B/url) by Jack Jones)
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> The lyrics are amazingly dated in their blithe acceptance that husbands will stray:
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> _Day after day  
> There are girls at the office  
> And men will always be men  
> Don’t send him off with your hair still in curlers  
> You may not see him again_

Havent listened to much hip hop, have you?

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**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2012, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/102 "2012-06-23T03:54:51Z")

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> [@madsircool](#):
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> Havent listened to much hip hop, have you?

Nope

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**Author:** ![tesseract](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@tesseract](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tesseract)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2012, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/103 "2012-06-23T05:23:17Z")

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> [@Taomist](#):
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> Well crap; my whole life I’ve interpretted it a third way, which is “If you ain’t got a woman, you ain’t got the problems that come with them”. :smack::smack:I’m smacking myself in the face a lot today. 😛

> [@kayaker](#):
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> Very common.

I’ve never understood why anyone would have this interpretation - it doesn’t remotely fit with any of the lyrics. Maybe if you only knew the title of the song and nothing else, but if you listen to it once it’s clearly not saying that…

In this bright future you can’t forget your past  
So dry your tears I say

No woman, no woman, no woman, no cry  
No woman, no cry  
Oh, my little darlin’ no shed no tears  
No woman, no cry, yeah  
sister no shed no tears, no women no cry  
Songs:  
The Thrill Is Gone - B.B. King  
Women I’ve Never Had - Hank Williams, Jr  
Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen

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**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/104 "2012-06-23T14:58:49Z")

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_Wouldn’t Want To Be Like You_ and _I’d Rather Be a Man_, from the Alan Parsons Project’s “Eve” album

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**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2012, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist-misogynist-music/625667/105 "2012-06-23T15:39:50Z")

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One At A Time - the Who  
Legal Matter - the Who  
I Can See For Miles - the Who  
See My Way - the Who  
Down By The River - Neil Young

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