War of the Sexes

Dueling monologues between the male chauvanist pig and the women's libber.

[MCP:]

We're gonna take away abortion,
  Woman has to learn her proper role.
We're gonna outlaw the diaphram, take away your pill,
  and put the man back in control

We're gonna put ya back up on your pedestal
  And not care about what you think
Gonna take away your job so you'll stay at home
  Knocked up and at the kitchen sink

We're going back, back, to the good old days,
  of the bustle and the petticoat
We're going back to the ways that God intended
  Gonna take away your right to vote!
Oink! Oink! Gonna take away your right to vote!

[femlib:]

You can never take away abortion, 
  You can only make one hard to get.
I'll never give up my self-control
  And you haven't found yours yet.

I'll never go back the way it was
  Because slavery is dead.
And you better wise up or you're liable to find
  You're in a big cold lonely bed.

We're going forward ho! to the better ways,
  And we've only just begun to grow.
God gave me a mind and the will to find 
  what's right and She ought to know.
That's right! I said I think She ought to know.

War of the Sexes

Monday, March 17, 1997 - 12:00

Written sometime later than 1989 Jan. Revised 1991 Nov 16. First web publication ©1997 Mar 17. Published to mindfulwebworks.com 2007 May 02. I don't know as I buy into all the above, as I think the "battle between the sexes" is overblown rhetoric on both sides, like most wars of words. Maybe I should have called it "War of the Sexists." But women definitely have liberation to work for against ancient attitudes, both in men and in themselves. So do men!
Image nipped from Broadsides by Antonia Zerbisias.
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