You Can Make Him Like You Lyrics

Lyric discussion by waspiE 

Cover art for You Can Make Him Like You lyrics by Hold Steady, The

selfishisgorgeous... i'm a girl, and i don't think it's empowering... coz it's totally not! one thing nobody has mentioned yet is what this song is saying about the guys that this girl can make like them...! if this girl is sucha personality-lacking leech... doesn't that reflect poorly on all the dudes she can make like her?... and then she's the one who gets bored of him and moves on first...? sad.

So by your own explanation it IS empowering women. Thank you

Except she didn't say that at all. What is so empowering about being slightly less pathetic than someone else?