| Crass – Shaved Women Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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You're all wrong. The song is about the Magdalene Launderies in Ireland. Until 1996, women and girls in Ireland who got pregnant out of wedlock, had addictions to drugs and alcohol, or were considered too promiscuous were sent to live in asylums run by catholic nuns. Upon entry these women and girls had their heads shaved and were forced to wash clothes in silence with little to no contact with the outside world for sometimes years at a time. More than 35,000 women were sent to live in these facilities against their will and around 6000 children and babies are known to have died in them. Deaths which were covered up by the catholic church. Shaved women. - The inmates. Screaming babies. - The children who's deaths were covered up. Disco dancing and shooting dope - rationality for the incarceration and enslavement of women and girls. In all your decadence people die. - The wealth of the vatican juxtaposed against the inhumane conditions in the asylums. Remember, Shaved Women was the B-side to Reality Asylum, an attack on Christianity. Note the word "Asylum" there, it's not coincidental. The songs are about the subjugation of women by the church. |
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